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The 7 Deadly Sins of Agile: A Grecian Odyssey through Modern Software Development

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Fast forward to our modern era, as we traverse the intricate landscape of software development, particularly through the lens of the agile approach, we find these age-old Greek sins echoing in the challenges and pitfalls agile teams often encounter. It’s vital to seek early help if challenges hinder your value delivery.

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The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — Making Your Scrum Work #15

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TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, a lack of agile leadership qualities on the incumbents’ side may impede its overall progress significantly despite the best efforts of all other change agents.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

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Susanne Madsen is the author of several books on project management and leadership, including The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. She’s also the director of the London-based Project Leadership Institute, which works to build well-rounded and dynamic project management leaders.

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Scrum: The Revealer of Challenges

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In the vast landscape of software development, there's a common misconception that tools and frameworks are the magic wand that will solve all our problems. It's a call to action for leadership to step in, reassess, and make the necessary changes to support the business's goals. But it's not all doom and gloom.

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Is a Scrum Master an Agile Coach?

Scrum.org

From software development through to marketing and HR, whole organisations are now seeing benefits from agile adaptive approach to work, and are building internal positions for new Agile Coach roles. . The 8 elements of agile coaching that Scrum Masters utilise are: Trainer - Focusing on skills development through formal instruction.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

Anything that has a start and a finish, resulting in a product, is a project and its life cycle requires the oversight and leadership of a project manager. Agile certifications: These are ideal for those project managers that want to work in agile environments as a scrum master, agile certified practitioner or agile value stream consultant.

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You’ve Chosen a Career in Project Management…Now What?

The IIL Blog

Perhaps information technology or software development projects would be a good fit. Her leadership advice has been featured by Ellevate Network , The Huffington Post , and Forbes. If you haven’t done so already, you’ll need to decide upon the type of projects that will most interest you. Are you a “techie” at heart?

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