Sun.Mar 24, 2019

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Agile for Project Managers: an analogy

Musings on Project Management

It's been a few years since I wrote the material for the presentation below, but I find it timeless. It's all about an analogy It's all about how a self-directed team working on a mission of top-down importance and specification -- these imperatives coming from executive leaders -- get the job down sufficiently well (in Agile speak: well enough) to succeed.

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How hidden are your hurdles?

Kiron Bondale

My article last week discussed the need for team members to act with responsible transparency. Each team member requires discipline and wisdom to judge when an issue preventing them from completing their work items can be resolved quickly without the need for broader communication or escalation. If a blocker surfaces and no one other than the person who encountered the impediment is aware of it, the delivery of that work item could be critically impacted resulting in a cascading set of delays.

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“Not Everything that can be counted…” (Cameron, 1963)

Scrum.org

Have you heard the term “lamp post metric”? [i] This is a measurement that is easy to gather and may even seem like common sense. If you lose something on a dark night, where are you going to look? Without a doubt, you will look under the lighted areas of the lamp posts where you last walked. Why did you look there? Because it was easy to see.

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The PMI’s Agile Practice Guide: What You Need to Know

Online PM Courses

In September 2017, the PMI published the Agile Practice Guide, in collaboration with Agile Alliance. Is the Guide part of core Project Management knowledge? The post The PMI’s Agile Practice Guide: What You Need to Know appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Answer The #1 PMO Question In Less Than One Second

Proggio

The most dreaded question in project management is the simplest one. “So, how are we doing?”. Sometimes it’s a stakeholder asking. Sometimes its management. Sometimes it’s you, the project manager, asking yourself. Answering “How are we doing?” is not a simple preposition. Most of the time, people go running for the data. We all know what it’s like to prepare for a management update meeting!

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