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Government Lessons in People Over Process

Leading Answers

Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects. As it turns out, plenty due to my ill-advised approach.

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Government Lessons in People Over Process

Leading Answers

Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects. As it turns out, plenty due to my ill-advised approach.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

In certain cases, it’s possible to cling to legacy or home-rolled project management practices even when development teams have moved into some form of Agile development. I’m ecstatic about how our development teams are delivering to our customers. Align Agile project management with your organization’s strategy.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It became a part of agile when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book “Agile Software Development with Scrum” in 2001. It was initially created by the UK government for IT projects.

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IT project management explained: How to run great IT projects

Planio

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. Similar situation: IT projects are still risky, with project managers facing the threat of development bugs, failed deployments, and system downtime. And that’s no simple job.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT

Scrum.org

Reassigning Team Members : Frequently moving team members between Scrum Teams disrupts the building of trust and undermines the stability and effectiveness of teams​​. In the absence of this feedback, teams may engage in gold-plating under the assumption that they are adding value.

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Leveraging Agile to Improve Quality

Leading Agile

So, what we’re looking for are cross-functional teams, clear backlog, good acceptance criteria, work broken down as small as possible, so that we can integrate the Dev Teams and QA Teams as we go and create feedback loops throughout the life of the Sprint. The Impact of Agile on the System of Delivery.