Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The term refers to how the project’s requirements or feature list grows over time without proper control. Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: 70 Scrum Master Theses. The following 70 Scrum Master theses describe the role of from a holistic product creation perspective. The theses cover the role of the Scrum Master from product discovery to product delivery in hands-on practical manner. The Role of the Scrum Master. It is not a mere management role.

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Project Bliss

JULY 26, 2020

A scrum master servant leader can lead his team to greatness with this advice from Geoff Watts’s wonderful book Scrum Mastery. Please see the Editor’s note below regarding the variation in spelling of the term Scrum Master. Scrum’s framework is easy to understand but hard to master.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2022

I think of the three accountabilities in the Scrum framework as creating a balance of power. The Product Owner owns the content and ordering of the Product Backlog, which describes what the team will work on. The Developers own how to deliver their work. And the Scrum Master helps to maintain the balance between them.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

Peer Recruiting is the new hiring: Shortly, all creative, technology-based organizations will need to abandon the command & control structures that served the industrial world of the 20th century so well. Instead, they will reorganize themselves around autonomous teams to deal with the complexity and pace of innovation of the 21st century.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 13, 2023

Do you have a Scrum Genius on your team? Maybe you’re the Scrum Genius — someone who has a lot of experience, has been part of teams that have delivered several successful products and has certifications the length of your arm. Scrum: rulebook vs. framework Scrum is not a rulebook. Take a breath.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2021

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads. Job ads for Scrum Master positions reveal great insight into an organization’s progress on becoming agile. I analyzed more than 50 job ads for Scrum Master positions to gain these. Analyzing a Job Advertisement for a Scrum Master Position.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams. Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter : Product Owner Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (2). ?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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Development Team Review Project Life Cycle Underperforming Technical Team Estimate 148

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? All evidence is biased to some extent.

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Planio

DECEMBER 19, 2019

So how can you squash harmful scope creep and keep your project team agile, productive, and motivated as you handle changes? Scope creep isn’t just bad for project managers. It’s bad for everyone involved in your team and project. Create a change control process. Protect your team against “Gold plating”.

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Defining Closing 129

Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. More than 80% of the Scrum Masters (respondents) claim their organization is in or below a “still maturing” level. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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Scoro

MARCH 11, 2024

There are lots available—each varying in features and complexity, but each helps you keep your team organized and on schedule. In this guide, we’ll highlight a list of project management tools and software that help you manage tasks, collaborate with your team, and manage resources. 11 Best project management tools to consider 1.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Budget 98

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

I am passionate about Scrum as well as about photography and when I thought of writing my first blog, I thought of sharing important lessons that I found useful while supporting Scrum and taking photographs. Every Scrum team should be paying attention to all the three aspects. Scrum, does not create software by itself.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

"The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint." - The Scrum Guide. The Scrum Guide is markedly ambitious in the standard of professionalism it demands of a team.

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Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 162

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The Sprint Retrospective allows the team to find 1 or 2 axes of improvement without revolutionizing the world. You observe that Sprint Planning becomes very delicate because you realize that you have great difficulties in estimating the actual working capacity of the development team. Well done ! POSSIBLE REMEDIES.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2019

You'd have no reason to doubt that executives were anything other than firmly on-side with Scrum Masters, coaches, and change agents. Their project controls and measurements are geared towards an objective where evidence of success, or failure, will arrive late. If the measurement of value is poor, then the outlook is grim.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. Team health? What about business value metrics, I ask?

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Software Review 145

Scrum.org

MAY 23, 2021

Metrics need to be chosen with care because when poorly chosen, they create an illusion of control. If we collect metrics that serve as a KPI to teams, we need to be aware we are not supplying the teams goals other than our main goal (delivering customer value). Team velocity. Measuring outside-in increases transparency.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Influencer Monitoring 211

nTask

MAY 19, 2021

Transitioning to Agile, although beneficial, requires a few changes in the software development life cycle (SDLC). The introduction of Agile metrics in the workflow helps in the successful management of software development projects. The health of the team. Help keep teams focused. Control chart. Quality of work.

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Defining Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 78

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. How is risk managed in Scrum? Financial risk.

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Risk Management Risk Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 123

Planio

MARCH 7, 2018

The humble meeting gets a bad rap. Regular, fast, and efficient meetings are one of the surest ways to keep a project moving (and are an integral part of Agile and Scrum project management ). Step 4: Keep the meeting focused (and stop being a bad influence). Bad meetings aren’t just lost time. But somehow they have.

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Underperforming Technical Team Planning Technical Review SCRUM 167

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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Planio

JULY 22, 2020

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. The best books for building better habits (for yourself and your team). Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good habits & Break Bad Ones. Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects. Among these resources are models, methods, and artifacts that each play a unique role in aiding project managers and their teams to achieve project goals.

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Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 2024 Lean 52

ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

It refers to any prediction or estimation made on a project’s status, including how it will unfold in the future. The very first meeting conducted between stakeholders and the project team. . Any discussion between teams to resolve difference on opinions or any other issues that negatively affect project execution. Remote Team.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Risk Management Defining 111

nTask

JUNE 24, 2019

If it is a small team, you might as well have the option of calling all the shots. If it is a big team, you will have the opportunity to work with creatives, some IT dudes across the hallway, and many other talented individuals who are looking for a sense of direction. “Not the best way to hold a Scrum meeting.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Risk Management Budget 136

ActiveCollab

JUNE 20, 2017

Scrum is a project management framework that helps small, close-knit teams develop complex products incrementally. Scrum focuses on how people work instead of what they do. Scrum relies agile principles and is the most popular agile methodology out there. What is Scrum. Scrum got its name from rugby.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Scrum is simple to understand with some immutable principles & guidelines. It is a lightweight framework suitable for small self-managed teams. For a long period, our idea of Agile was only Scrum. That’s when SAFe came to the party.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

1 trillion dollars are lost due to poor project management practices and some companies are losing even more money by being unable to keep up with their workloads. Highlights: Create projects and assign tasks to team members. Assign assignments to the members of the team and keep track of their progress. Advantages. Slow-speed.

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2022 Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean 98

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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PM Basics

JUNE 5, 2018

Agile Project Management is common for Software Development and Telecommunication industries. Scrum or Kanban on its own is not an Agile Project Management approach. Scrum and Kanban are separate and self-sufficient frameworks. Main execution phase is done with Scrum. Develop Acceptance Criteria. Let’s be clear.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Ive recently read “The bottleneck Rules” by Clarke Ching and it reminded me that not all bottlenecks are bad. This is a kind of virtual transparency that Teams migrating from Scrum to Professional Scrum with Kanban find a massive benefit in using. Some as Clarke points out are there for safety and quality.

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Underperforming Technical Team Transportation Estimate SCRUM 127

ProProfs Project Management

AUGUST 7, 2020

Are Agile Planning And Scrum Planning the Same? Are You Ready to Develop a Perfect Agile Plan? Agile project planning is a method to estimate work through self-contained work units called sprints and iterations. You can even say that project teams’ potential is put to the test via an agile project plan.

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Techno-PM

JUNE 19, 2023

Introduction : The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) consists of several phases that outline the process of developing software. Implementation and Coding: This phase involves the actual development of the software. The design is translated into code using programming languages and development tools.

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