Agilemania

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The 15th State of Agile Survey is out. The survey revealed 66% of the organizations voted Scrum as the most sought-after Agile framework. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. Now, the question arises as to what Scrum is and why it is so popular, that it is an all-time favorite agile framework. What is Scrum?

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PM Basics

APRIL 24, 2018

Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing. Concept Development.

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Agilemania

AUGUST 21, 2022

But what does this mean for your organization? Well, it means that you need to streamline your product development processes and reduce the amount of time wasted on red tape and unnecessary paperwork. You need to implement a process that will drastically cut down on the time taken from ideation to release.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Hence, you have to figure out on your own what is working for your organization. A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. A range of appropriate answers.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used by software engineers and IT professionals for the past sixteen years. The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology.

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Wrike

APRIL 5, 2021

Software development has changed radically in recent years, so why are our processes still the same? Enter release management. Release management is a modern solution to the unique challenges software engineers and project managers face today. What is release management?

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

There's a recent post titled Four Fallacious Reasons to Estimate. It lists the usual suspects for why those spending the money think they don't have to estimate how much they plan to spend when they'll be done producing the value they've been assigned to produce for that expenditure. Let's look at each one in more detail.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Agile PPM & Project. One of the key investment areas was Agile. Even Team Foundation Server (TFS) has grown into the new Azure DevOps (Visual Studio) for developers, proving better alignment for Epics, User Stories, Sprints, Requirements, and connecting source code directly to Agile constructs. Understanding Agile.

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Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done.

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Planio

JANUARY 31, 2022

That’s why a product roadmap is the backbone of every great development team. It’s the single source of truth that tells everyone from engineers to stakeholders where you’re going and why you’re going that way. In this guide: What is a product roadmap? Why you need a roadmap (even as an agile team). Be realistic.

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Wrike

APRIL 1, 2021

Agile release planning is a valuable technique for building customer-centric products and projects. It helps achieve your product roadmap through, planning poker Agile, iterative sprint planning, and daily standup meetings where you review and incorporate feedback to ensure incremental product improvements over time.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. You Can’t Understand Agile Without Understanding Hayek. He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

How do you define, design, represent, assess, analyze, and manage these interactions. But in technical systems - engineered technical systems - the system has to work when commanded to do so. I come to this systems domain from the Software Intensive System of Systems paradigm. Finance, social, political.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

The 2019 Scrum Master Trends Report by scrum.org and the State of Agile 2018 shows numbers that provide insight in the maturity of agile adoptions. I have seen agile transitions in many organizations and I have been through numerous learning experiences myself, deepening my understanding of Scrum and Agile.

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The Strategic Project Manager

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) is a core agile method emphasizing a strong business foundation up front, and execution through the full project development life cycle. What Is the Agile Dynamic Systems Development Method? What Is the Agile Dynamic Systems Development Method?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 9, 2017

The classic paper “ Software Engineering Economics,” Barry Boehm, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol SE-10(1), 1984, pp. For software development, there are many decisions to be made. What Feature to develop next ? Are we ready for the Release? IT Risk Management.

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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. 40 - Estimation is a Problematic Practice of Companies Doing Dangerous Things.

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom. This presentation is showing up again. Have you done a Root Cause Analysis?

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Planio

DECEMBER 2, 2018

And a big part of that is what bug tracking software they use. In this guide, we’ll run you through some industry standard processes for tracking and dealing with bugs, and then cover the most popular bug tracking software used by top tech teams from around the world. What is bug tracking and why does it matter?

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 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. Rarely are software engineers working on science experiments.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We did an extensive analysis of various factors that influence waterfall project management. This helped us to simplify how nTask project management software can be used for solving such issues. Waterfall is a popular SDLC project management model. What Do You Need to Know about Waterfall Oriented Project Management?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Management Processes (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM). Agile Project Management (#APM). Risk Management (#RM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Management Processes.

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Workzone

JANUARY 18, 2023

Maybe you need fresh start with a similar tool or maybe it’s time to move to a full-fledged project management solution. If you’re a maniac for Kanban boards and won’t give up your cards no matter what hand you’re dealt, you’ll want to see these. Is your board exploding in size? Pricing: Free to quoted 8.

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Digite

JANUARY 21, 2018

In a recent post on a technical forum, a Dev manager had the question (paraphrased here) – My organization wants to operate in a Kanban way but maintain the structure of sprints and burn down charts to keep track of progress. If so, what is the best way to implement it? Is what you end up doing known as Scrumban?

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Herding Cats

MARCH 31, 2017

For project management domain, what are some Principles? What does Done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers? What is the Plan and the Schedule for the work in that Plan to reach Done for the needed cost on the needed date to deliver the needed Value to those paying for the work?

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Herding Cats

JUNE 12, 2018

This is simply good process development and business management. What is the Root Cause of the process not being trusted? And only then deciding what preventive or corrective actions should be take to remove to cause which in turn would remove the symptom. Then conjecture that NOT estimating will fix that symptom.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 15, 2017

Why estimates don't work - Carmen is assigned a project that will make or break the company. Carmen has never managed a project this size. This is a classic example used in the book of making seriously bad management decisions. . Why would the manager assign Carmen that project? Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 25, 2017

What does done look like in units of measure meaningful to the decision maker? The ConOps is the first step for developing system requirements. Funding constraints - how much money do we have, when can we spend it, what's our management reserve? What's our competition? But where do these live?

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms. Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates.

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Herding Cats

AUGUST 22, 2018

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. What's the difference between this Program and the Boy Scouts?

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. Let's look further.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Here's an extract from "Chapter 8: Human Behavior and Complexity," Terry Cooke-Davies, in Aspects of Complexity: Managing Projects in a Complex World. This is a cautionary tale for those listening to the #NoEstimates advocates, where anecdotes of bad management are used in an attempt to replace established principles of business management.

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MPUG

MAY 14, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Fletcher Hearn’s session, Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. This one covering, What to Measure and How to Report. My name is Kyle, and I’ll be the moderator today.

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Melanie: Jeff is currently the Training and Development Manager for Edwards Performance Solutions. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Jeff, a big MPUG welcome back.

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

He is responsible for the implementation of enterprise project management solutions for Edwards’ clients as well as overseeing the custom application development performed at Edwards around enterprise solutions and Microsoft Project for both desktop and server as well as SharePoint. Fletcher Hearns: Great, thank you Kyle.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 1 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG training series, part one, Understanding and Incorporating Agile Project Management. So let’s pop that up.

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