Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

However, I tell people that reporting is an opportunity to highlight the awesome work the team is doing and to also bring forth issues you need help with. Think of the readers as the team owners/general managers who want to know if you’re going to win the Super Bowl. These reports are for the PMO leader and the PMO team.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

For the Agile community practitioners, managing change and uncertainty to deliver on strategic goals is nothing new. The former grows by adding scale and complexity, which must be managed. Today’s, and tomorrow’s, market-makers are more like living organisms.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

Build a strong and diverse change management team to lead the effort. This team should include members from different departments and levels within the organization. Develop a detailed plan for the change, including specific milestones and timelines. Just ensure the minions comply and don’t ask too many questions.”

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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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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external. What is the business context?

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Planio

MARCH 20, 2020

While we’d love to say it’s the project management tool you use the truth is it’s something else: Communication. Maybe you think it’s too much work for the size of your team. Or that your team already knows how to communicate. A great project manager knows the true risks of miscommunication and plans accordingly.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. Your agency utilization rate is typically tracked in your resource management software , where you also get a breakdown of billable hours. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! This article covers the three Scrum accountabilities (formerly roles) and addresses interferences of stakeholders and IT/line management with this crucial Scrum event. Moreover, I added some food for thought. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ for companies and teams to be split across cities, countries, and even time zones. And while there’s no denying the many benefits of working remotely , mismatched schedules, repetitive communication, and out-of-sync teams don’t make the list. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of the business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external.

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Planio

MAY 9, 2022

After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. And that’s a problem — especially on remote teams. Here’s everything I’ve learned about how to help remote teams collaborate and communicate effectively, openly, and honestly. How does it help teams collaborate?

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. The top 3 format Free project status report template 11 steps to write a project status report your team will actually read 1. Build your report where your team works 2. Don’t be afraid of bad news 10.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. How this is done is at the sole discretion of the Developers.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. I also believe that the scope of the area under review primarily focused on the team. Introduction.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. Yet we rarely see agile communications management plans. Why We Have Communication Management Plans Projects can be time-consuming and costly, and tie-up valuable employees for long periods with no guarantee of the outcome initially hoped for.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Have you ever had one of those bad dreams where you keep making the same mistake over and over again? Now, what if that dream became your team’s reality? If you feel like your team keeps making the same mistakes over and over, they probably are. Agile teams made retrospectives popular, but they work for any team.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 5, 2017

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. The emerging risks that can be identified early in the project that impact the project later are often termed “known unknowns.”

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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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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Melanie here with team MPUG. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. Cindy enjoys sharing her knowledge with the project management community. Lewis’ and James Mills JR.’s Melanie: Hello.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. View Dennis’ System of Delivery Deck.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

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? In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company.

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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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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

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? Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces. Survival is the best the teams can hope for. What has changed?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

But there’s a risk that people will get excited about automation and get ahead of themselves. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Try installing a typical business application on a pristine development environment. Building software.

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