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Creating a Risk-Adjusted Backlog

Leading Answers

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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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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Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams

Scrum.org

TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

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Lean Thinking and the Parable of the Underbrush

Leading Agile

Lean Thinking starts with identifying customer-defined value, and proceeds from there by focusing on ways to maximize the delivery of that value. They don’t pay for regulatory compliance reviews. They don’t pay for security assessments. A manual, after-the-fact, formal review process is optional.

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5 Agile Methodologies for Project Managers that are not Scrum Framework

Project Pulse Journal

These methodologies share the core Agile principles of iterative development, customer collaboration, and responding to change like Scrum teams; they apply these principles in varied ways to optimize workflow, improve product quality, and enhance team dynamics. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

Willingness to take personal risks. This includes what success looks like and the benefits it will bring to the sponsoring organization, the users of the end result, and the team members who created it.   Ability to empower - We should make use of people’s knowledge and skills by trusting them to do a good job.

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How to Take Advantage of Adaptive Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Lean Project Management Lean project management is derived from lean manufacturing principles and focuses on maximizing value by eliminating waste. Lean encourages continuous improvement through the iterative evaluation of practices and outcomes, promoting efficiency and effectiveness in project execution.