Kiron Bondale

APRIL 3, 2022

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. Throughput and Monte Carlo received 11% of the votes and #NoEstimates only received 5%.

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Leading Agile

MAY 23, 2024

Releases take longer and longer. Modernizing applications allows you to take advantage of what the cloud offers and generate savings. This way, you can manage risk and generate returns as you go. Scale What Needs to be Scaled All components are not created equal. Applications have an architecture.

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Risk Management Risk Infrastructure Governance 122

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We were talking about PRINCE2®, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to the PMBOK Guide. — Today, on our Project Management Methodologies Series, we’re going to interview Elizabeth Harrin, from the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004.

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Prince2 Underperforming Technical Team Certification PMI 425

Planio

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Every great piece of software starts with a plan and a clear process in place. Luckily, there are numerous software development processes you can choose from when you’re starting your next project. But which software development process is right for you? Agile and Scrum. Processes and plans are just guesses.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Process 152

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

You have multiple versions, releases, and code bases, creating a support nightmare. A Dull, Sinking Feeling You know what good looks like—a modern, cloud-native, microservice architecture using SOLID principles, built and maintained with sound DevSecOps practices like TDD , CI, CD, and Infrastructure as Code. Sometimes this works.

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Governance 133

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? The Idea of a Scrum GPT Exploring Scrum in the real world often uncovers a tangle of anti-patterns—those practices that, despite best intentions, stray from agile principles and hinder progress.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.” - Pierre Bonnard. It’s an agile activity which looks like it ought to be a no-brainer for teams…something they’d want to buy into, and of clear value to all. OK, so what’s this “canvas” stuff then? Lessons from a start-up.

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Governance Government Lean Sustainability 135

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. ? Integrating with Other Methodologies : Many organizations employ multiple agile frameworks or methodologies. Simplifying or tweaking Scrum elements can help organizations adopt agile practices without being overwhelmed.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 145

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 28, 2021

What is PRINCE2? PRINCE2 is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. PRINCE2 was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017.

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Prince2 Governance Government Certification 197

Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

When OpenAI released its new LLM model GPT-4 last week, I could not resist and signed up for $20 monthly. I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT 4 is superior to its predecessor, which left a good impression in recent months; see my previous articles on Scrum, Agile, and ChatGPT. Read on and learn what happened. GPT-3 and GPT-3.5

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ChatGPT SCRUM Technical Review 2020 151

Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

Jimmy is an Agile coach & trainer based in Stockholm. Before starting his own company “ Agile With Jimmy ”, he worked at Crisp and supported organizations like Spotify, Casumo, KRY in their quest to increase agility. Jimmy is the author of the book “96 Visualization Examples — a toolkit for the Agile coach”.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Agile Risk Management 249

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? Impose traditional project management tasks on the Product Owner.

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SCRUM Budget Agile 2022 194

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In preparation, we’ve been pouring over this year’s data and we were curious to know what 2023’s top performing Field Notes were. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile? Now, we turn our attention to 2024.

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2023 Underperforming Technical Team Agile 2024 128

Inloox

MARCH 27, 2024

What is the PDCA cycle? Definition of the PDCA cycle The initial letters PDCA stand for the four steps in a continuous improvement process (CIP, Kaizen): Plan-Do-Check-Act (Plan-Do-Check-Act). In principle, the PDCA method can therefore be used in all areas where an agile response to dynamic changes is required.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Software Review Software Developers 100

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What are the top cities for project management in the world? We looked at hotspots for megaprojects and compared them to the outlook for project management careers. Nationally, 73% report that there is a formal or informal career path for project managers in their organization.

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Planio

MAY 20, 2024

But making these changes without a proper project management approach inevitably wastes time, effort, and money. Project managers bring order to chaos, help align cross-team projects, wrangle budgets and schedules, and so much more. Less wasted budget through strict cost management 4.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Software Review Finance 88

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Today, we’re exploring what it looks like to transform the way your company finances itself in a new, agile world. Annual funding, long wait times for approvals, and all the read tape that goes along with that, aren’t as agile as the teams are. Andy Fine’s been with us for what about four years now, Andy?

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Planview

MAY 9, 2023

A PMO can support cost reduction by promoting efficient and effective project management practices, ensuring project investments align with business priorities, and continuously improving processes to optimize resource utilization and minimize costs. But PMOs must be agile and adaptable to be valued business partners.

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PMO Transportation Governance Government 78

Scrum.org

AUGUST 22, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Join 470-plus peers and contribute to the anonymous poll for the upcoming Free ‘ Product Owner and Product Manager Salary Report 2022 !’. Page 8 : [Sprint Planning: What can be Done this Sprint?]

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Technical Review SCRUM 2022 2020 165

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 33,000-plus subscribers. ?? Be warned, though: Typical objections to deleting unnecessary Product Backlog items range from “we cannot delete them—it is our documentation as required by governance” to “we invested so much work in creating them.” (The

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SCRUM Agile 2022 Governance 220

Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

If you work in project management, your job isn’t done until your users are happy — but that isn’t always the case. As every project manager knows, it’s almost impossible to get from A to B on a project without something going wrong. Jump to a section: What is an implementation plan? What is its purpose?

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Planning Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Software Developers 88

The IIL Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Information Technology is a young industry with several even younger career paths, one of which is Information Technology Service Management (ITSM). As governments and organisations began to utilise IT to run their organisations, the concepts of ‘services’ began to evolve. million years.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By APMG International September 6, 2023 Agile project management is a flexible approach to managing projects which involves taking incremental steps referred to as sprints or iterations. Here is a brief overview of its evolution: Before Agile, Waterfall was the dominant project management approach.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Development Team Review 88

Scrum.org

JANUARY 23, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ? ? ?? I also contains: Background information on why the questions are useful in the process. These should allow an interviewer to dive deep into a candidate’s understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset.

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2023 SCRUM Technical Review ChatGPT 159

Scrum.org

MAY 18, 2021

Topic(s): Discovery & Ideation , People & Process. Topic(s): Discovery & Ideation , People & Process. This represents my best efforts to pull together a specification of the Product Owner accountability from the Scrum Guide, agile practitioners, and a little bit of experience. Audience: Product Owners. UK | 9,256 | 23,241.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. We talk about the goals of going agile.

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Governance Government Cadence Underperforming Technical Team 58

Agilemania

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Do you use the Scaled Agile Framework in your firm or organization? Have you heard everyone else is going agile or embracing lean, and you’re not sure what it means? Keep reading if you’re uncertain if your firm would benefit from employing a product manager. Who is a Product manager? Portfolios.

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Lean Certification SCRUM Agile 98

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 17, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Have you ever found your project team celebrating the end of a sprint, only to realize the outputs aren't quite ready for release? The "Definition of Done" (DoD) is a cornerstone in project management that ensures every task, feature, or phase meets established criteria before being considered complete.

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Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 2024 52

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But what happens when those values aren’t aligned with what the business is trying to achieve? Those are cultural attributes that the people that I was talking to in the agile community were prioritizing for. We were doing a lot with traditional project management. Or does it start with the people?

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 71

Agilemania

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams.

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Certification 2022 Agile Lean 98

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They are also self-managing, meaning they internally decide who does what, when, and how.". It is the empowerment of Scrum Teams to manage their work towards a common goal that gives organizations more agility when solving complex problems and producing high-quality results. What's in a word. The change.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 8, 2018

The Stage Gate Process gets too little love from Project Managers. Yet it has the potential to transform your project management, deliver more successful projects, and make you a better project manager. In a Stage Gate process, you break your project into stages, or phases. What is a Stage Gate Process?

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Process Prince2 Governance Government 67

The IIL Blog

JULY 12, 2023

By Cynthia Snyder Dionisio July 12, 2023 Even though the PMBOK ® Guide – Seventh Edition was released two years ago, there are still many project managers who are wondering how it is structured, and how they can use it. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge is what we call the PMBOK ® Guide.

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Velociteach

JULY 6, 2023

Large enterprises and government agencies increasingly turn to Agile for their software projects. This is a difficult shift, with many struggling to fit their new round agile pegs into their existing square waterfall holes. Cultural, structural, and procedural impediments make “being agile” a challenge.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Telecoms Governance 77

Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

The project management profession has had a similar quest—defining a methodology, set of practices, or principles that could successfully guide any project. Like physics and nature, project management is ubiquitous. Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities.

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Lean Cadence PMI 2001 88

Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

And that demand causes the market-entry of new professionals from other project management branches, probably believing that reading one or two Scrum books will be sufficient. Then sign up for the Food for Agile Thought newsletter and join 26k other subscribers. Maybe ‘Agile’ in general is a fad as opposed to a trend.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 229

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But what happens when those values aren’t aligned with what the business is trying to achieve? Those are cultural attributes that the people that I was talking to in the agile community were prioritizing for. We were doing a lot with traditional project management. Or does it start with the people?

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Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62