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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

November 19, 2020 : If you use Scrum then join the free Hands-on Agile meetup—it will be worth your time ! Agile frameworks, like Scrum or Kanban, have been on the rise across organizations for many, many years now. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.) Feynman! “, page 340.

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

nTask

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. The daily business operations are headed by the CEO and the CTO. Both the CEO and CTO regretted installing/ buying JIRA in the first place. I don’t know why they hired Kathy in the first place.”.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. Today, Mike Cottmeyer brings in our CTO and one of the main architects of our Studios offering to discuss the conditions that must be present for solid technical practices and software craftsmanship to thrive.

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How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)

PM Basics

You can now think about ways to negate the potential threat they bring, perhaps by contracting the lunch preparation work to them instead. External ones are commonly not part of your organization. You also worry that they may protest against the school principal to cancel your project.

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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. – So, I think one of the interesting takeaways during that time is that you’ll, again, I wish we almost had like a whiteboard. – Yeah.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

This is part one of the series. I am the director of technology solutions and CTO for Edwards Performance Solutions. We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space.