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Agility for a Sustainable World: Why We Need to Redefine The Meaning of Agility

Scrum.org

This year was the 20th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, and in many sectors, agile ways of working have long since become the standard. Our own explanation of agility so far has been "the skill to turn customer needs into value flexibly, creatively and quickly while managing risk in complex environments.". .

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Working toward Sustainable Pace in Scrum and Kanban

Scrum.org

Aiming toward Sustainable Pace. Agile processes promote sustainable development. programmers or software developers should not work more than 40 hour weeks, and if there is overtime one week, that the next week should not include more overtime.” - Extreme Programming. Measuring Sustainable Pace. Do you care?

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Working towards Sustainable Pace in Scrum and Kanban

Scrum.org

Aiming towards Sustainable Pace. Agile processes promote sustainable development. programmers or software developers should not work more than 40 hour weeks, and if there is overtime one week, that the next week should not include more overtime.” - Extreme Programming. Measuring Sustainable Pace. Do you care?

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Episode 185 – Redefining Project Success through Sustainable Project Management

Velociteach

Projects are instrumental in defining an organization’s vision for a more sustainable future. Dr. Joel Carboni talks about Sustainable Project Management, and the goal to achieve a stated objective while considering the project outcome’s entire lifecycle to ensure a net positive environmental, social, and economic impact.

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How to manage project tolerances (with PRINCE2® 7 guide)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 7 tolerances in PRINCE2® The two most frequently used tolerances are budget and time, although PRINCE2® offers you a choice of seven tolerances: time, cost, scope, risk, quality, sustainability and benefits. For example, let’s say the financial value of all the project risks should not exceed 5% of the project budget.

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Is the triple constraint in project management still relevant? (Spoiler: No!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Factors such as risks , resources (human and otherwise), expectations or even R&D or technology issues for ground-breaking tech projects can be considered as constraints. The 6 project constraints are time, cost, scope (as per the triangle) and then quality, risk and resources. Going live with innovative new solutions?

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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business. So why is so much of software opaque to the business? All technical debt is risk to the product and to your business. There is no asset securing that risk, no insurance for it. Technical debt is 100% risk. Technical debt is like an unhedged fund!