Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. You’ll want to document a terms of reference for your governance committees so they know what they are supposed to do. Project manager: the person leading the project (you).

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LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Think again.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

The Project Management Institute acquired DA in 2019 to extend its agile capabilities. Both refer to themselves as “frameworks” or “toolkits” rather than methodologies. Full SAFe extends the framework to Large Solutions that require coordinating many ARTs and implementing Lean Portfolio Management.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 8, 2018

And your manager doesn’t want to find out about project issues from the customer. Simplifies the reporting process for the project manager. Helps you as the Project Manager manage the messaging and communication around your project. Project manager. Benefits to Creating a Project Status Report.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

Though maturity models are great, I won’t make reference to them here. Project Managers are out there every day representing the PMO, so make sure they’re well prepared! Get a feel for what reports a PMO leader needs, what functional managers want to see, and metrics the C-suiters find important.

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. It’s usually based on a cadence. Let’s understand these two types a bit more.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

refers to exponential changes in the way we work, live, and interact with one another as a result of the combination of technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, intermingling with the physical world to create cyber-physical systems. The former grows by adding scale and complexity, which must be managed.

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Digite

MAY 26, 2017

Program Increments (PIs) provide a development timebox (default 10 weeks) that uses cadence and synchronization to facilitate planning, limiting WIP, provide for aggregation of value and assure consistent retrospectives. The Agile Release Train provides alignment and helps manage risk by providing program level cadence and synchronization.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Introduction: First, I am not writing this to be highbrow; besides technical and project management topics, I have enjoyed history and mythology for years. I recently watched an old Greek mythology movie from the early 80’s, and I had a revelation: the muses and project management.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

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Leading Agile

MAY 17, 2021

Velocity, while seemingly a simple measure of team output, is quite often one of the most misconstrued metrics by organizations new to Agile ways of working – by both managers and the teams themselves. I shared the above outline with the team and discouraged any practice that results in the “gaming” of metrics. Be vulnerable.

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MPUG

JUNE 28, 2021

Now, you might be thinking what exactly a dance has to do with cadence in Agile? Let’s start first with the definition of cadence. Cadence – Definition and Basics. One can define cadence in Agile as follows: Cadence is a regular, predictable pattern of development work in Agile. Working with Single Cadence.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Now imagine that a senior executive starts off his day and decides first to have a quick look at the project dashboard expecting to see metrics such as the current status of projects, earned value indices in terms of money and performances, and top risks. Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Uncertainty creates risk. Risk Management is how Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Conduct Schedule Risk Analysis. Uncertanty creates Risk. Agile is a participant in Risk Management, but Agile is NOT Risk Management. .

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Digite

MARCH 17, 2017

As the PI has 5 iterations with multiple teams working in cadence to achieve a common vision, it is important for these teams to assemble and plan out the course of action for the entire PI duration. The meeting also helps the teams understand any dependencies amongst themselves and any risks to be addressed.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Work (or sometimes even a transformation) is ongoing, and the organization wants a second opinion on risk or improvement factors. . It’s an enjoyable class to teach (and attend), and in this case, I was teaching it in-house to a management team at a large Dutch corporation. And why on earth were they not managing this themselves? .

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. The schedule will also help you see if you’re overloading your team or putting people at risk of burnout. Stakeholder management.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But there was a noticeable difference in how projects were managed when we started creating reports for the more complex projects. A project progress report can be created solely for your manager, your entire team, or your client. The issue with spreadsheets is that they aren’t designed for project management.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Working this way reduces the risk that you’re building the wrong software. They’re responsible for managing themselves and determining how much work they can complete in a sprint. Refer to your communication plan to see who should be included.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Project management will undergo significant changes this coming year. Worldwide physical and cultural events are shaping every new project management trend happening in the industry. They may even be transforming the entire project management discipline. What are the current trends in project management?

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Your agency utilization rate is typically tracked in your resource management software , where you also get a breakdown of billable hours. Reduce risks before they escalate: A sub-optimal utilization rate can be an early warning sign of projects derailing further down the road.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. If a Sprint is too long, the market may invalidate a Sprint Goal, increasing complexity and risk. This habit also puts reaching the Sprint Goal at risk.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In this article, he outlines the similarities of the two as WIP Limiting, Pull-based systems – with cadences and a focus on learning – while also explaining their differences. Getting my thoughts out and in a more concrete form that I can reference (and send people to reference) should promote better conversations as well.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The third set of goals revolves around looking at where the organization exists today and determining a possible operating model within the LeadingAgile reference architecture. It’s essential that the leaders see their organization within the reference architecture.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

In this week’s episode, LeadingAgile Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, sits down with Mike Cottmeyer to discuss Capability-based organizations, Systems of Delivery vs Systems of Transformation, managing dependencies, and more. – Talk about project management and things like that. – That’s right. – Yeah.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. A project status report is a document that summarizes a project's current progress against the baselined project plan (this is why they’re often referred to as “project health checks”). Rate and summarize each key project control 9.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

The Sprint Goal, the Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint, plus the plan for delivering them are together referred to as the Sprint Backlog.). Probably, the Product Owner is referring to former team metrics such as velocity to support their desire. Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

Welcome to the Sprint anti-patterns article from my series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering the three Scrum roles—pardon me: accountabilities—and addressing the contributions of stakeholders and the IT/line management. When a Sprint’s horizon is too long the Sprint Goal may become invalid, complexity may rise, and risk may increase.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Tim, is going to drop a link for you guys later on if you guys weren’t part of that webinar series, because I think we’re going to reference some of it. And a lot of times I reference, there’s a cartoon, I should actually have it on the ready because I talk about it all the time. And then I reduce the risk.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

And you’ll hear us talk about the way that you deliver that is by designing your organization so that the governance — the way that we manage the flow of value through the organization and make economic trade-off decisions — is defined effectively. The first one is the one around risk, around scope rather.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. All work is divided into short bursts called "sprints".

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Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Digite

DECEMBER 18, 2016

CoS is a risk categorization mechanism for any work item. For this blog, cards that are classified as Intangible CoS will be referred to as “Intangibles”. Intangibles can also help manage business expectations better. Most managements struggle to accept this core Lean principle. Management want high utilization.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Carl is the author of seven project management books and co-produced The Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam. He is the US correspondent for the British project management magazine, Project Manager Today, and serves on the board of directors for projectconnections.com. Carl Pritchard: Yeah. It was a conference.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Because the recovery phase was not officially recognized (typically due to time reporting rules that prohibited honesty regarding overtime), management missed the opportunity to learn from experience and repeated the death march pattern again and again. What is needed is a Product Manager responsible for the business value of the product.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security.

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