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Becoming Agile: Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

In fact, if you were to read some of the interviews with managers in business magazines, or the guest articles and puff-pieces on agility in their companies, you'd think that their hearts and minds had been won decades ago. How much is an initiative worth to stakeholders? How satisfied are customers, or employees for that matter?

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Product Manager vs Project Manager: The Main Differences

Techno-PM

If your career goals are focused in the software industry, there are several Scrum certifications that would enhance both your knowledge and expertise in that profession. The Scrum credential can also help you advance as a product manager – a somewhat different career path that has much in common with being a project manager.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Why Is Change Hard? Drucker, P.,

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Use Mob Programming to Maximize your Learning

Scrum.org

In every Scrum.org Professional Scrum Development class, we touch upon both technical and collaboration practices to help improve the development teams explore new options. Trying out any new technique, anything that's out of your comfort zone, can result in initial chaos, it requires a bit of courage to move onward.

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Mitosis and Express Kickoff

Scrum.org

Context We are in the process of Agile business unit transformation, with 15 teams and dedicated functions (marketing, magazine, CRM) creating a product ecosystem for SMBs ( small and medium-sized businesses). We suggested scaling correctly and using Scrum-pattern mitosis instead. We call this product fragmentation.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. So think about scrum.

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Why do most projects fail?

Binfire

Forbes magazine also opined about the high rate of project failures recently. . Who should be involved in the initial planning? In the Agile method, the project manager is replaced by an experienced Scrum master is needed. The CIO magazine has a good article on this subject. So, why so many projects fail?