Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients.

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So, if you have a team of qualified resource planners working for you, or if you are one yourself and you want to overcome the challenges that are related to resource planning, you need to have two elements embedded in your resource planning process. Choosing the Right Processes. They are: Professional IT solution.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. (And Sprint review ceremony. Agile is an umbrella term for different iterative and feedback-driven software development processes. And why do they matter?).

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Besides these rules, there are also certain guidelines which help the Scrum Teams to make the best possible use of Scrum framework to create maximum Business Impact. For ex: You cannot do Scrum without the 3 Roles - Product Owner, Development Team and Scrum Master. The impact of it would vary based on team context.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Sprint Goal is mentioned 27 times in the Scrum Guide , Product Backlog refinement is only mentioned in the following piece (about the Product Backlog): Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. During Product Backlog refinement, items are reviewed and revised.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 21, 2022

Well, it means that you need to streamline your product development processes and reduce the amount of time wasted on red tape and unnecessary paperwork. You need to implement a process that will drastically cut down on the time taken from ideation to release. Team members know the story, not just the process.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Data from the Harvard Business Review shows that a meager 35% of projects worldwide are deemed successful by the people who build and use them. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Define team roles and assign team members to tasks Step 5. Tasks, due dates, and timelines. Risk approach.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

The Scrum is the whole of the Development team, the Product Owner and the Scrum Master. The Scrum team has affinity with the family of roles, yet it is not a role in the Scrum framework. The Scrum Master is servant leader for the Scrum team. The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development team.

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MPUG

APRIL 2, 2024

” This definition emphasizes the temporary and unique nature of a project, with a predetermined start and end date, as well as its focus on creating a specific outcome. In order to deliver successful projects, one needs to implement various processes and follow best practices.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and were still struggling with a lot of remaining work. There was a climate of mutual blame between product management and the development team. The Team Start. As we have three weeks Sprints, the Development Team estimated an item as 1, 2 or 3.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

When I started working with the team, they finalized a platform migration and where still struggling with a lot of remaining work. There was a climate of mutual blame between product management and the development team. The Team Start. As we have three weeks Sprints, the Development Team estimates an item as 1, 2 or 3.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Just because a project team has adopted Agile doesn’t mean the project manager role needs to be eliminated. Agile and traditional project teams have their own set of processes to accomplish work. Scope creep always occurs as requirements evolve, and the team sees working software. Project managers need to be doers.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This article will provide you with an in-depth guide on how to prevent project scope creep, from understanding its definition to implementing strategies and tools to control it. Imagine a software development project where the project manager estimated that it would take three months to complete.

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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. That's a very broad definition.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Sprints are the backbone of any good Agile development team. But maybe more than that, sprint planning aligns the development team with the product owner. Like any relationship, the one between you and your team requires communication and clarity. Pro Tip: Use “Story points” to properly estimate tasks.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Production costs soar due to the delay in time and unnecessary costs. Scrum can help estimate the total cost of production. Story pointing allows teams to estimate the near to the accurate cost of building new features and allows teams to prioritize tasks based on their difficulty. Product Owner.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

Until recently some academics and Project Management Institute (PMI) considered Agile method, not a serious contender in project management due to the fact that is very hard to set a due date for project’s completion in the Agile method. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I met with my colleague, Ryan Kent , to discover his experience with Buggy Definitions (his term) in his environment. Ryan is a Scrum Master currently working with Agile teams in a multi-national insurance enterprise. Me : I know you have recently worked through a great challenge with your team. Ryan’s team’s definition?

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

Until recently some academics and Project Management Institute (PMI) considered Agile method not a serious contender in project management due to the fact that is very hard to set a due date for project’s competition in Agile method. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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Herding Cats

MAY 15, 2019

The development of software, using other peoples money (OPM) means - or should mean - that those providing the money have an expectation to know How Much Money , along with When well you be done spending that money and provide me the Value I bought with that money ? Here's one of many definitions . Quickly estimate issues.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

Estimate task time and effort. Sequence and assign team members to each task. But to correctly estimate start and end times , you first need to know what needs to be done at a high level, what resources you’ll require, and a basic outline of their order. For example, should that feature take a day for a senior developer?

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nTask

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The most basic definition of a project charter is that it is a conclusive document that is made up of the following three elements: Scope. Team Management. This is the simplest definition of a project charter that you can find online nowadays. The Benefits of a Project Charter for the Project Manager & Team.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum? This can help improve the overall quality of the team's work and ensure that the team is meeting its goals. Question : Should a Scrum Master remove problems on behalf of the Scrum Team? Q 27: The ‘Definition of Ready’.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I am also skilled in stakeholder management and communication, which are critical for ensuring that everyone involved in the product development process is informed and aligned. Finally, I value collaboration and teamwork and believe in creating a supportive environment where the development team can thrive and achieve their best work.

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ActiveCollab

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

As success of a goal should be defined by a compatible KPI , the result should either be a number (we increased the number of clients by X%), or give a definite answer to predefined “yes/no” question. If there is no way to answer these questions, it’s time to add an extra dimension to the goal definition. Achievable - Be realistic.

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Appfluence

MARCH 8, 2021

Agile characteristics The Agile Manifesto Agile’s core values Agile’s 12 Guiding Principles Pros and Cons to Agile Project Management Scrum: what it is and how it works Scrum’s Key Components Scrum roles Team characteristics The Scrum Development Process How to implement Agile Project Management Using Priority Matrix.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You can find definitions online as easily as I. A metaphor usually captures some salient aspect of a Thing, but never comprehensively or definitively defines or describes the Thing. “Velocity” in software development doesn’t mean velocity. Estimated hours completed? What Is a Metaphor Not? Story points?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

When we started back in July 2017 it was a standard ‘task radiator’ borrowed straight from the boards at work: The columns on this were: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, In Progress, Needs Review (I think that was the first to go!), They’re less a way of estimating a task and more a way of keeping score. Done, and Established Systems.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 4, 2017

“A project manager is like a doctor who leads the trauma team and decides the course of action for a patient - both at the same time. Without the right kind of authority to efficiently handle all the project management issues, development teams can easily get into trouble.” - Scott Berkun, the author of “Making Things Happen”.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 9, 2019

While the Development Team is responsible for delivering the increment, the Product Owner is responsible for maximizing value by deciding about the content and the order of the Product Backlog. . Amazing Decisions, a company developing and selling digital products. And that’s the definition of an outcome: .

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

And when we started LeadingAgile about six or seven years ago, we well, I guess we started 12 years ago, but we, we started to build a dev team about seven or eight years ago and we’re working on an internal product called Navigator that’s been in development for a while now.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” 100% in advance: The Scrum Team creates a Product Backlog covering the complete project or product upfront because the scope of the release is limited. Source : Scrum Guide 2017. See above.).

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

The following article points at 28 Product Backlog anti-patterns — including the Product Backlog refinement process — that limit your Scrum Team’s success. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items.

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Teamweek

MARCH 25, 2024

Freelance developers and development teams often find it difficult to track their time efficiently and bill clients accurately. Time tracking software for developers can help overcome these challenges with automatic trackers, billing, and reporting features. What is the best time tracking software for developers?

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

And they’re counting on the fact that all of the planning processes, all the project management, or all the Agile or all whatever, is going to help them make promises, okay? How do we get a team to be able to make and meet commitments, right? We typically want to have those stories estimated, right? Why is that important?

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MPUG

AUGUST 14, 2023

From experience, the sales representative often provides budgetary estimates for the project and the scope discussion. Upon acceptance of the offer by the customer, there is often a refinement and more formal articulation of the scope and estimate of cost and schedule. Not always, though. Articulating the project’s scope.

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