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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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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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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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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. Are we doing good change and risk management? In other words, are we doing all the stuff that is part of measurement? Fletcher Hearns: All projects have scope, cost and time built into them.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

I’m sitting there as this relatively young project manager, teaching all these folks at the bank about Agile, right, and risk management and things. So, what were some of the key takeaways from that time? I just don’t see as much of their work as I do the guys that are doing Scrum and LeSS and SAFe and things like that.

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Dealing With “Remote Sprawl”: How to Manage Teams, People, and Projects Across Time Zones

Planio

Note: This post is a companion to our extensive guides on how to manage , hire for, and work on remote teams. How to reverse Remote Sprawl: 10 reasons teams spread across time zones fall apart (and how to avoid them). Jacobs, author of Scrum First Aid , explains, you can think of your multiple teams as either: One logical team.