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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

I’m Matt VanVleet, the Chief Technology Officer for Leading Agile. I used to have my own consulting company and have been involved in Agile practices since XP and before the Agile Manifesto. As a consultant, I’ve encountered many impediments or barriers to Agile transformation.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

My point is that although project management tools are not completely important; they are definitely a means to an end. He never even used Jira, or came close to touching it! As a result, when they send in a request to the IT team and the CTO to buy task management tools, a lot of wrong things happen. Can you believe that?

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The Intrigue – and the Universality – of Kanban

Digite

While there has been a fair bit of the religious battle about Scrum vs. Kanban – which, while doing injustice to both Scrum and Kanban, has certainly helped to keep Kanban under the spotlight – the fact is that most consultants, coaches, and practitioners have been far more pragmatic and sanguine about it. Ramesh Patil.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. I’m the director of technology solutions and the CTO for the company. And there’s just a quote here from a consultant in the DC area that says, “Managing a project without metrics is like sailing a ship without a compass.”

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

Now that he’s on the consultant side of things, he brings his unique perspective to each of his engagements and is able to empathize with his clients in a way that only he can. You just went from director to CTO? So get ready to settle in and listen to this all-new podcast. . – [Mike] Can’t be off by a penny.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Brian Derfer, CTO. Introducing the Agile Risk Management (ARM) Framework,” Brian Derfer, CTO, Agile Six Applications, Inc., Order Contract, C. On the Quantitative Definition of Risk,” Stanley Kaplan and B. 11, “Closed-Form Approach for Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation in Analytic Models,” Kesari Mishra and Kishor S.

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Project Stakeholder Management: Identification, Analysis, Register

PM Basics

Stakeholders Definition. “A One of the definitions of a project success says that you need to meet all the requirements of all the key stakeholders. Consultants and technical experts. For example, the President of the company, CEO or CTO may have ultimate power and authority over most aspects of the project. Requirements.