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Agility for a Sustainable World: Why We Need to Redefine The Meaning of Agility

Scrum.org

1] This shows how urgently we need to become more sustainable. As a starting point, we are using our previous explanation and the definition of sustainable development: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" [2]. Controlling complex risk.

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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Is the triple constraint in project management still relevant? (Spoiler: No!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget. You could also add in sustainability, or anything else that makes sense for your project.

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Engagement serves two aims: It creates, uses and sustains positive interest in the work. Beyond the interest and influence grid. It minimizes or removes negative interest.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Short-Term Focus : Driven by quarterly results or immediate performance metrics, these organizations push for quick deliveries, often at the expense of long-term value or sustainable development. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Sunsetting Scrum Masters

Scrum.org

A gradual decline in their effectiveness can be a subtle, insidious process heavily influenced by the size and culture of an organization. Command and Control Resurgence: Observation: The team’s reversion to traditional command-and-control methods indicates a move away from the collaborative and empowered approach central to agile practices.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2® stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2). It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. The relationships part of this principle’s title is all about the project ecosystem and how soft power and networks influence the way work gets done. And it’s not spelled PRINCE TWO!

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