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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

November 19, 2020 : If you use Scrum then join the free Hands-on Agile meetup—it will be worth your time ! Agile frameworks, like Scrum or Kanban, have been on the rise across organizations for many, many years now. 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of Scrum.) Everyday Failures on the Path of Becoming Agile.

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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

10 years ago, it seemed that a little Scrum here and some coaching there would suffice. I’m Matt VanVleet, the Chief Technology Officer for Leading Agile. I used to have my own consulting company and have been involved in Agile practices since XP and before the Agile Manifesto.

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Creating the Conditions for High-Performance Development Teams

Leading Agile

In Agile, you only get the full benefits of Scrum and SAFe when certain conditions are met in the organization. Today, Mike Cottmeyer brings in our CTO and one of the main architects of our Studios offering to discuss the conditions that must be present for solid technical practices and software craftsmanship to thrive.

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How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)

PM Basics

For example, you identified the school canteen operator as a stakeholder in your free lunch program. You can now think about ways to negate the potential threat they bring, perhaps by contracting the lunch preparation work to them instead. For example, government organizations or bodies that set standards related to your project. .

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

Take the example of a to-do list feature in any reputable project management software. As a result, when they send in a request to the IT team and the CTO to buy task management tools, a lot of wrong things happen. JIRA is just one example. Since my induction as an IT officer, I have seen Atlassian JIRA Co.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

MPUG

I am the director of technology solutions and CTO for Edwards Performance Solutions. We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. This is part one of the series.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 2: What to Measure and How to Report

MPUG

We are a project management consulting company in the Baltimore Washington area. I’m the director of technology solutions and the CTO for the company. And there’s just a quote here from a consultant in the DC area that says, “Managing a project without metrics is like sailing a ship without a compass.”