The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Agile is a broad term, and there are many ways to look at it. From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. An Agile Methods List Overview. This is most visibly implemented in sprints, with well-established scrum team roles.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The agile philosophy is at the core of Product Management. Teams can build products faster and more efficiently by utilizing agile methodologies from the Product Management perspective. Many agile teams can benefit from SAFe®’s alignment, collaboration, and delivery strategies.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. What are Agile ceremonies? A ‘quick-start’ guide to the 5 Agile ceremonies.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

This is a slightly broader definition of “front-end” that we normally hear from, say, web app developers. If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Half-Agile Transformations.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. Business agility mindset begins with a mental shift. I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. So far, I hired 2 Scrum Masters whose answer to the question didn’t have any of those metrics. Rarely do you hear Scrum practitioners bringing up Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Work Item Age.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile. I think there’s an interesting challenge in our industry, too, that the Agile community has been fighting for a long time to be allowed to be empowered. And let me give you three strategies.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. It’s been three weeks since I joined a team of highly experienced Agile coaches. The VP stated the Agile teams were in ‘chaos’ since being taught the concept of Lean Agile portfolios. Needless to say, it was about me. What is trust?

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then, we will dive into the topic of Agile PMO, its relevance, and a number of roles that can be played by such a PMO. With this background, let’s proceed towards the concept of Agile PMO. The first question that comes to mind in having a PMO coupled with an Agile approach is this: Is a PMO really needed at all in an Agile setting?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you have been studying the project management paradigm for a long time then you would know that Kanban is one of the most flexible of the agile frameworks out there. To many of the fans of project management out there in the market, these rhythms are known as Kanban cadences. What are Kanban Cadences? Monthly Risk Review.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

On November 22nd, 2019, I gave the closing keynote at Scrum Deutschland, a talk called ‘The Four Things You Do To Prevent Value Delivery.’ Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class. Worse, what did it do to developers, communicating beforehand that their issues would be fixed in post-release crunch time?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . Soundcloud. – Yeah. When did we first meet?

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Start with an Agile pilot project.

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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. Timing and team cadence: Decouple team cadences whenever possible. Information silos: Leverage your knowledge management tools and processes.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When asked what an Agile organization is, most people tend to think it’s one that’s built around a certain mindset, or around Agile practices like Scrum or SAFe—or both. But if it were as simple as a mindset or process change, so many Agile Transformations wouldn’t fail. Base Patterns and Tools.

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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Agile project management basics: project as product.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile. There’s a belief that executives are the number one obstacle to successful Agile transformation in organizations.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Luckily, there’s a tool you can use to break the cycle. If done poorly, these agile meetings can turn into a bad case of the blame game with everyone pointing fingers and screaming “No, it’s your fault!”. Prepare and gather your tools. Agile teams made retrospectives popular, but they work for any team. Nobody wants that.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Product Development (#ProdDev). Strategy (#Strategy). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Planning and Scheduling (#PS).

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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