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. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2018

In the second post, we explored how to grow a strong team identity. Now we will explore the team process dimension. How do you work as a team to maximize the benefits of Scrum and agility? Recall that the Scrum Team defines their own process within the boundaries of the Scrum framework. How does your team build it?

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Binfire

MARCH 26, 2018

According to agile visionaries, a robust, agile team embodies “we” rather than “I” and that teamwork is crucial to delivering great software. Agile focuses on the team collaboration, autonomy, and independence, instead of command-and-control. Develop a path that will guide you to your ultimate aim. Build Team Trust.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Energy SCRUM 106

Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2020

It is located in the neocortex and developed relatively recently. In the context of a product development it might refer to poor performance of the product group or a business unit, deteriorating revenues, outgoing quality etc. A software development effort is always a system! Systems Thinking in Organizations.

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Digite

MARCH 19, 2018

As teams implement their early Kanban boards, they inevitably face the reality of the gap between what they are actually used to doing vs. what they put on their Kanban board. (We So, policy debt is bad, but seeing it in effect means that you have matured! Rejoice instead, this is good news: “Team, we are learning!

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Lean Underperforming Technical Team Governance Government 91

Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

That’s because recruiters spend less time on poor-fit candidates as they shortlist candidates based on data, not opinions. Gamified skills assessments can be more than efficiency drivers – Toggl Track had tremendous success sourcing high-skilled developers via quick skills quizzes. Making a bad hire is a painful experience.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Developers 52

Digite

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). This team’s goal is to be fixing urgent bugs and when they aren’t (doesn’t happen that often :)) they should work on the product increment.

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ProProfs Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. It is a team that works for an organization from different geographical locations. Virtual Team.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You by Tom Kendrick. Leading a project team that doesn’t report to you is a whole new challenge in itself. Kendrick walks through how to motivate a team to contribute to a project’s success. Cost: Coursera: Agile Development Specialization.

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Online PM Courses

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Donnie’s Article at Online PM Courses: A Simple Way to Develop Interpersonal Skills for Project Managers. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Developing Leaders. Exploring trends and developments in project management today. PMI’s blog team: @ PMvoices.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. Business drivers have to be translated into project drivers by a strong technical team, not management. Incorrect definition of project success. What is the most effective way to avoid failure?

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Workzone

JULY 18, 2022

With so many choices available, you’re likely wondering which software is right for your team. We’ve compiled a list of the best project management software options, including the pros and cons of each, to help you find the perfect solution for your company. That definition may seem a little ambiguous. ” every day.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 2022 Software 26

Workzone

APRIL 23, 2020

With so many choices available, you’re likely wondering which software is right for your team. We’ve compiled a list of the best project management software options, including the pros and cons of each, to help you find the perfect solution for your company. List of Best Project Management Software Solutions. Source: G2.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Technical Review 26

MPUG

MARCH 18, 2021

Jeff is currently the lead course developer for Edward’s Performance Solution and oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. Kyle: We’re very happy to welcome back Jeff Bongiovani, today.

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Risk Management Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Governance 52

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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Workamajig

JULY 14, 2019

What methodology you choose will depend on your team, project-type, and project-scope. What methodology you pick will have a profound and ongoing impact on how you and your team works. It was first outlined by Dr. Winston Royce in 1970 as a response to managing the increasingly complex nature of software development.

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Underperforming Technical Team Prince2 Critical Chain Sustainability 141

Planio

APRIL 6, 2021

A product requirements document (PRD) is one of the most important documents for teams using traditional project management. However, an increasing number of Agile teams are starting to see the value of adding more planning to their process. Agile is all about staying lean and adapting to user feedback, right? Jump to a section.

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Lean Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 78

Sudipta Lahiri

AUGUST 1, 2014

There is a lot of of literature on application of Lean and TPS to software industry. However, there are some key takeaways from Lean thinking that need to be understood/appreciate but haven’t got adequate focus in the software community. Shitsuke: Develop the habit of abiding by what is laid down.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Mike Cohn’s August 2016 article, The Dangers of a Definition of Ready describes certain problems that can occur when a team uses the concept of a Definition of Ready. He writes: You can think of a Definition of Ready as a big, burly bouncer standing at the door of the iteration. He’s right.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Infrastructure 104

Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

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. 255, April 2010. 920, November 2004. 1, March 2014.

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ProProfs Project Management

JULY 5, 2019

Whether you are overseeing a team or leading major projects and their execution process, it is essential to keep everything in line to ensure project success. How will you know what is the best way to manage your teams ? 47% of projects fail to meet their goals due to poor management of requirements. Louis ) Tweet this.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 15, 2019

Similarly, a team should complete the work item or ticket or story (or whatever they call it) they’re working on before picking up the next one. In Lean terms, what you’re experiencing in those games (and possibly in your real work, too) is a high level of work-in-process or WIP.

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MPUG

JANUARY 4, 2021

your project team). For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. I will explain how you can marry these two seemingly?opposite

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Artificial Inteligence Critical Chain Underperforming Technical Team Agile 122

Leading Agile

MAY 28, 2018

Velocity is the most widely used-and-abused metric associated with Agile software development. How are things going in your software development organization? To the infrastructure team. They move it into a test environment for the functional testing team. You’re making it sound like a bad thing.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Infrastructure Software Developers 84

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done. 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. Gantt Chart. Communication Plan.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Leading Agile

JANUARY 9, 2019

They are described by older folks that way, as in 5 Ways to Cure Millennials of Career Impatience and The Top 8 Millennial Weaknesses and How to Overcome Them , by Ryan Jenkins. Any real or perceived barriers to that are someone else’s fault, by definition. It’s not a “weakness” that needs to be “cured.”

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management. If you have an in-house design team, for instance, you can say that you have "design capability". Charter : Also called the 'Project Charter', this document outlines all the relationships within stakeholders and project team members.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’m not suggesting this degree of simplification is automatically or always a Bad Thing. It can become a Bad Thing when we lose sight of the larger context of our work. Software testers. Software developers/maintainers. It only becomes a Bad Thing when you assume you’ve finished. Only One Metric?

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Proofhub

JANUARY 22, 2019

6 Steps Every Team Should Follow?—?A A Project Management Guide for 2019 Project Management Defined Wikipedia defines project management as “ the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. ”

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

And so this is where agile kind of fits in and isn’t just necessarily only for software development. Now it’s not to say that processes and tools are bad or documentation is bad or putting something in writing, but the idea is that there’s an investment that really will be a little bit different.

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Agile Technical Review Lean Underperforming Technical Team 40

Paymo App

JANUARY 19, 2018

Project managers always work in a team. They are most often sociable and great team players. Being flexible is key to team communication since you’ll be the builder and controller of the team. To be a great PM, you have to be a team leader, co-worker, and supervisor at the same time. No project is the same.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 18, 2018

I remember joining a team in the late 1970s that supported an application used worldwide by a large corporation. The team resolved to drive that number down. It’s amusing until one reflects on the potential consequences when a large proportion of software we depend on for everyday life is of this quality.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

This list of alternatives for Asana the project management software will help you identify which project management software you should be using. They are widely used for basic task and project management, but oftentimes busy teams with growing workloads need more. Better visibility to your team’s work. Asana Pros.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

There's been a rash of conjectures about all kinds of bad business, project, and software development (agile and traditional) management ideas of late. This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We develop these reference classes using Agile Function Points. We use Vitech's Core.

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Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 42

MPUG

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So I’ve been working with both Agile, Waterfall, Lean, I’ve worked with a lot of different methodologies, and it’s a lot of fun to just kind of look at how you can basically work forward, make these tools work for you. So we’ll take a look at those and then we’ll do a quick summary. I think this will be helpful.

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