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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Managing Multiple Projects: The Research

Rebel’s Guide to PM

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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AI in Project Management: An Interview with Lloyd Skinner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When those tasks are automated, Lloyd believes the project manager can focus on human-based tasks like business change, “knocking heads together to get decisions”, governance, and stakeholder engagement. You’re already seeing the development of some of their tools including AI within the planning function or bringing in chat bots too.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. In 2020, AXELOS, the awarding body for the PRINCE2 family of certifications, launched a version specifically aimed at the US market, with relevant vocabulary and case studies. And what are the weak points? In brief, how does PRINCE2 work?

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Government Lessons in People Over Process

Leading Answers

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects.

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Current State and Future Prospects of Scrum and Agile Development in Japan

Scrum.org

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. But most teams that try it find out that the benefits exceed the costs.

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