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. Often an internal senior department manager, client account manager or supplier project manager/representative. Project manager: the person leading the project (you).

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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve already discussed the importance of decentralised command and decision-making in an earlier blog, outlining how managers need to be able to train, mentor and teach their teams. We know Agile is not just for software teams. The stand-up facilitates teamwork and risk management, boosts morale and keeps the team moving forward. #3

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

These days, new project managers are exposed to conflicting guidance. When our projects undertake defined, repeatable work using technologies and approaches our organizations have experience in, then uncertainty and change rates are typically low and manageable. Here, traditional project management approaches work great.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

Technology alone won’t solve the problem. In an effort to curb productivity leakage, some managers are turning to software to monitor their people. But, we will most surely not overcome the challenges we face by turning our management layer into the company police force. . People and Interactions over tools and software.

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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 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. Reviewing code by eyeballing it to ensure compliance with coding standards. Handling merges of code changes made by more than one person.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The project management plan (Plan) is a powerful tool. Projects using well-understood solutions and technologies require less rigor. Domain Management Plans describe how the project domains (PMI knowledge areas) will be planned, executed, and monitored. It describes how the project will be executed. Solution Complexity.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. The honest truth is that many project managers hate creating status updates as they’re either requested too often or asked to supply too much detail - taking away time from the “real” work. Rate and summarize each key project control 9.

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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. They are attempting to advance the state of the art in work management predominately (but not only) in the area of knowledge work. Similarities.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

And while tools like Planio do a good job of helping you stay connected, successfully managing teams across countries and timezones takes a completely new set of skills. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Sprint review ceremony. Agile ceremonies — also known as Scrum ceremonies or just ‘events’ — are specific events that provide a structured framework for iterative software development processes. And why do they matter?). Sprint planning ceremony.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Move onto task management and list out milestones and steps. What is the best project scheduling software to use? Monday.com: Best for non-technical teams. But like everything in project management, a project schedule needs to find the sweet spot between simple and complicated to be helpful. Stakeholder management.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. I do believe that a separation between product discovery on the one side (product management), and product delivery (Scrum teams) on the other side is no longer a viable approach.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Creative features, successful product ideas, wild marketing stunts, full rebrands, or massive IT projects — none of them work without the project managers that tirelessly make sure everyone’s on the same page and making progress towards a shared goal. Assessing and mitigating project risks 7. But there’s a problem.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In such cases, it suggests that a significant portion of your client base is at risk, affecting your client retention rate significantly. Predictable workloads also decrease the risk of resource underutilization, as you’re not caught off guard by sudden drops in client numbers.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 29, 2023

This can be even more effective in technical sectors, like cybersecurity, where women make up only 24% of the workforce. Source What works well Hearing from women in industries where they are in the minority, like in tech, can help boost the number of applicants for your open roles and support a more diverse workforce.

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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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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019?

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. According to research published in Harvard Business Review , nearly 90% of companies struggle to complete Agile transformations — even after successful pilot projects. But unfortunately, few companies can pull it off.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In project management, tracking the progress and performance of projects is essential for ensuring successful outcomes. One of the key tools that project managers rely on for this purpose is a status report. They enable project managers to track individual and team progress, ensuring that tasks are completed in a timely manner.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

My dad is a rocket scientist, and we went to Georgia Tech, where they had installed a nuclear reactor. Managers are evil. But is it possible that there may be reasonable and rational behaviors behind the actions of those executives, managers, and people who obstruct what we’re trying to do? Have you ever heard of Digital?

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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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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Today’s PMI activity code, I’ll have up on the screen here in a minute. There may be exclusions, such as those steps included in product demonstrations.

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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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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

As the world of business increases in complexity, it will take more than user stories, estimation, and OKRs to build a trustworthy system that management can delegate into. But if managers want a trustworthy system, it’ll be up to them to create it. Why is it hard for managers to empower teams they want control? Fear, fear.

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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. – I was working in my office down in technology Parkway. And so you and I go way back. – Yeah.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2019

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. And today’s session is eligible for one PMI PDU in the technical category, and the code for claim that is on the screen now, that’s mpugwebnlearn091819.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Lewis’ and James Mills JR.’s Melanie: Hello.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. And so I was thinking about Scrum and so I just lifted this off of Mike Cone’s website and it’s attributed, so I hope he doesn’t mind too much mountain good software.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And they’re counting on the fact that all of the planning processes, all the project management, or all the Agile or all whatever, is going to help them make promises, okay? They deliver it, they review it with the product owner, product owner says yes, and then they get to claim the points, right? But you get the idea, right?

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