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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Agile PMO Technical Review Cadence 94

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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Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 110

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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Agile Consulting Influencer Underperforming Technical Team 140

Teamweek

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How do you tell the difference between a good project and a bad one? Look at the project progress reports. Bad project reports – your team or client gets lost in pointless data, doesn’t know what work was done, and receives no insightful comments. Projects get complex fast, and the tasks stack up quickly.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. It’s about the ability to pivot that strategy when we learn new things about what the market needs.

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111

Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

We have these small teams working on troubled projects. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. Traditional project management methodologies are process focused and agnostic to organizational design. Same for XP.

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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. Even if we think we’re being open and understanding, underneath it all, we think we know best. My best guess is because it’s harder than it sounds. Who cares if the best idea came from a junior designer?

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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. – Yeah. – Mm hmm.

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Agile Technical Review SCRUM Engineering 71

Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Managing remote teams can feel a lot like playing chess. Awareness and human connection are the manager’s best tools. Plenty of people before you have spent years learning how to manage remote teams–and have it down to a science. The 3 biggest work challenges every remote manager faces. with a blindfold on.

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Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Software Review Controlling 88

Digite

MARCH 12, 2018

We have a brownfield project which was recently struck by disaster (many people leaving for unrelated reasons, too many new customers, much too large backlog for much to few people, etc.). Management support is still fine. Shield devs and ops from panicked management and stakeholders. What are your best practices here? •

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Development Team Review Software Review Cadence Technical Review 154

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff. He goes, yeah, I get it.

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Sprint retrospectives are a powerful opportunity to highlight opportunities for change, generate meaningful improvements to your workflows and processes and speed up future projects, and stop your team from falling into the same traps. Agile project development is all about continuous improvement.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review SCRUM Risk Management 135

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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Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Project Management Hacks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In today’s Q&A interview, you will learn how Charles Byrd developed his productivity practices, managed products and built relationships. I met Charles in 2015 and have been looking forward to sharing his insights with Project Management Hacks readers. What is your background in project management and industry?

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Technical Review 2015 PMO Information Technology 53

PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

We also want to announce if you haven't had a chance to come join us at the pm tribe calm please do as for my project managers that are listening out there my agile lists that are listening out there. He's an independent management consultant. he endorsed that book, wonderful person, but the certifications coming out too fast.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. You guys remember them?

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