Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. Your pursuit of streamlining and enhancing project management processes led you to a pivotal crossroads.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Development Team Review Technical Review 52

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. Career incentives may discourage people from being agile, and then we ask them to be agile.

Software Review 126

Software Review Fractional CTO Technical Review Agile 126

Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

My fellow PST, Glaudia Califano, and I were sitting in a café (at a time prior to the current lockdown due to Covid-19), having agreed to meet up with a Business Analyst who had reached out to us to have a chat about Scrum and Agile. There could be many reasons for what our new friend was describing. Are Sprint Goals being met?”

Planning 168

Planning Cadence Technical Review SCRUM 168

Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Let us dig deeper.

Agile 98

Agile Cadence Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 98

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. What product discovery part, you may think now. Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery.

Software Review 142

Software Review Technical Review Cadence SCRUM 142

Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). What is SAFe? SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Agile Software Review Lean 98

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.

Agile 128

Agile Technical Review Software Review Cadence 128

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.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Certification Lean Manufacturing 52

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. Who is Mike Cottmeyer and what’s been your journey? How do you go up into Portfolio Management? Listen now.

Agile 143

Agile Consulting Influencer Underperforming Technical Team 143

Digite

JANUARY 2, 2017

Since the arrival of Scaled Agile Framework in the world market, there have been comparisons ad nauseum between the Scrum and SAFe frameworks. Many industry experts have come out and pointed possible flaws in the Scaled Agile Framework. However, the Scaled Agile Framework indeed subscribes to the ethos of the Agile manifesto.

Agile 60

Agile Cadence SCRUM 2013 60

Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Agile Infrastructure Cadence 120

Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Now, what if that dream became your team’s reality? 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!”. What is a sprint retrospective? Prepare and gather your tools.

Underperforming Technical Team 135

Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review SCRUM Risk Management 135

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. What could have caused such confusion?

Cadence 62

Cadence Agile Lean Sustainability 62

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. ” Like, what the heck does that even mean?

Agile 62

Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence SCRUM 62

MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In fact, I thought my personal computer had been hacked, and I rebooted a couple of times without knowing what exactly to do because my service providers’ status dashboards were all green–a good 10 minutes into the internet outage. Instead, he sees story boards, iteration and release burndown charts, and velocity graphs. Not really.

Agile 94

Agile PMO Technical Review Cadence 94

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.’ Something went wrong, and the organization wishes to know what happened where and when. . Some time ago, I was teaching a Professional Agile Leadership class. And now in these four articles.

Cadence 134

Cadence 2019 Closing Sustainability 134

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.

Agile 103

Agile SCRUM Governance Government 103

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. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile.

Lean 64

Lean Software Review Technical Review Agile 64

Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. 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.

Agile 71

Agile Technical Review SCRUM Engineering 71

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.

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

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. Action Item Status: The current status of an Action Item.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

Underperforming Technical Team Project Life Cycle Estimate Risk Management 78

Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

What does this have to do with project communications? Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. A release roadmap contains many of the elements of a Gantt chart. A release roadmap contains many of the elements of a Gantt chart. Has Mike finally gone mad? Why is this?

Agile 135

Agile Planning Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review 135

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.

Agile 77

Agile Technical Review Executing Influencer 77

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And that’s typically how I think about a lot of the talks that I give because everything in the agile communities about doing it and learning from it and sharing with people and getting feedback and figuring out how to do it better and that kind of stuff. Systems are a Predictor of a Balanced Culture Okay, fair enough.

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

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.

Agile 98

Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 98

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.

Agile 84

Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 84