Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? One of the secrets to unlocking your team's full potential lies in embracing the core values of the Scrum Framework.

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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? I often failed to help developers understand its true purpose.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 25, 2022

How sustainable is your pace as a developer? This has always been a huge struggle for us and most of the teams we’ve been part of. Unfortunately, many developers and development teams still burn more hours than are probably good for them. The initial practice was for developers to work no more than 40 hours a week.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Binfire

MARCH 6, 2018

Too bad these companies do not advertise how they organize their workforce and share with everyone the amazing benefits they get from turning their companies into Agile enterprises. The bad news; Bringing Agile to traditional organizations is not easy. Some executives try to take a middle ground and make the development team Agile.

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Online PM Courses

AUGUST 6, 2018

They were: Project definition. This could equally fit under ‘weak leadership’ However you classify it, if your people aren’t committed to your project’s success, they may as well be committed to its failure. It would be easy to conclude that projects fail because of poor Project Management.

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Leading Answers

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. Then discuss the transition from servant leadership to shared leadership.   EQ as a Foundation for Leadership.   Leadership is a Huge Topic.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

I believe I would be a good fit for the role because I have a strong understanding of Scrum and the Agile framework, and I am able to communicate and facilitate effectively with team members and stakeholders. Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum?

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A happy team is a productive team. The 12 best conflict resolution techniques for keeping your team on track. That’s a pretty vague definition, but that’s because conflicts come in so many different shapes and sizes. Your team reacts to tension and conflict with low morale and uncertainty. Jump to a section.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 16, 2024

TL;DR — Key Takeaways A skills matrix is a hiring and talent management tool for assessing employees’ skill levels and interests in those skills. A skills matrix can help you identify skills gaps , manage resources more effectively, track employee development , and perform better workforce and succession planning to make better hires.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Harvard business review has written an interesting article titled why even good projects fail anyway. is it due to lack of planning? The overconfidence of the developers and project members? 3-Improper or insufficient scope definition. 4-Lack of leadership. 6-Inexperienced development team.

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Planio

DECEMBER 17, 2020

While great project managers do all that while also keeping their team motivated and happy. When your team’s under pressure or losing their focus, it’s up to you to get them back on track. Understanding team motivation is a major part of running a successful project. Connect your team’s daily tasks to the larger company goals.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The History of Agile Project Management Agile project management emerged in the software development industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1991 the book Rapid Application Development was published and an approach of the same name, RAD, was born. Agile projects are iterative and have regular feedback loops.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Would you recommend formal Daily Scrums for all teams, no matter the size or experience level? Daily Scrums are an important part of Scrum, but not all Daily Scrums need to be formal — a Development Team should not have a Daily Scrum for the sake of having it; it serves a different purpose than ticking off a box on a checklist.

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Planio

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Scalability is a big deal in enterprise development. When you’re working with massive companies, get a significant spike in users, or land a great white whale of a customer, you want to know that your infrastructure, tech, and team can handle the increased load. Performance: How your engineering team thinks about scalability.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. In both SAFe/Scrum it is a self-managing team of self-managed teams with a couple of key roles at the team of teams level. . Lean/Agile Leadership. Nexus Integration Team (NIT) - System Team. Nexus - ART.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. The overarching theme is focused on defining what Done looks like, assessing progress toward Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. What do you organize those teams around?

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most systems implemented in large IT organizations are point solutions implemented to solve local (departmental, business unit, or team) problems. I was showing their development teams how to automate functional tests using Cucumber. But if you tried to use one as a crop-duster, you’d achieve very poor results.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

This allows me to have a more up-to-date understanding of the world, including newer events and developments. models: The first experiment compares the Scrum Guide 2017 to the Scrum Guide 2020 The second experiment is designing a Retrospective exercise The third experiment is to help a new Scrum team to design a Definition of Done.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

According to a common and general definition, Team Management can be seen as the ability of an individual (manager) or of an organization to lead a group of people to accomplishing a task or common goal. Good management of a team means to do the best by and for the employees. By Luigi Morsa.

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Planio

AUGUST 24, 2021

As much as product teams (and project managers) want to create and follow detailed plans, even the best ones are just dressed-up guesses. But creating a culture of experimentation–one where your team is excited to look for out-of-the-box solutions and try structured experiments–isn’t always easy. Ask the right questions.

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