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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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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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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Backlog A list of tasks, features, or requirements to be addressed by an agile project manager or team and is often associated with Agile methodologies.

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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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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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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.

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Can you be agile if you release only once a year?

Scrum.org

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. We developed two strong partnerships with customers early on.

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