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Agile Project Management: What is it and Why is it so Important?

Online PM Courses

And many project managers still think it is something that only applies to software development. Iterative and incremental software development methods go back as early as 1957 – and maybe earlier. Evolutionary project management and adaptive software development started in earnest in the early 1970s.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

The best books for crafting your leadership qualities. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Why you should read this: Project management (and especially project leadership) is more about people than processes. Published date: 2006 (Revised edition).

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Agile Movers & Shakers (1): Viktor Cessan

Scrum.org

Viktor runs training and workshops on a wide variety of topics such as agile team dynamics, product ownership, leadership, and management. I had no prior knowledge of agile back then (in 2006). So to me, the work I'm doing is larger than software development. It's not so much about being agile.

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Project collaboration: the key to successful project management (and happy teams)

Resource Guru

Leadership: A good project manager is able to lead their team toward a common goal. The launch of Google Docs back in 2006 sure brought collaboration to a new (much-needed) level. Now, collaboration in itself is a process, but collaborating with people and doing it well is something that requires skills shaped by experience.

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Alpha Project Managers: What you’ll Learn and Whether to Buy it

Online PM Courses

There is so much I’ve highlighted in my 2006 hardback edition, that I don’t know where to start. Jim works in Software Development and talks about a particularly tough year. Leadership. What are some of the Key Findings in Alpha Project Managers? It’s my job to keep the organism healthy.’

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The Agile Origins of Project Management 2.0

Wrike

The idea of constant dialogue in project management surfaced in 2001 as one of the principles of so-called agile software development and is described in the Agile Manifesto. Now agile methods are used to manage various projects outside of the software development. Perhaps the brightest examples here are Google and IBM.

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The Myth of Standish Reports - Update Number 2

Herding Cats

The Standish report: does it really describe a software crisis?" 8, pages 15-16, August 2006. Laurens Eveleens and Chris Verhoef, IEEE Software , vol. Forgetting even more that "agile" is a bottom-up software development solution. The Bunk of Using decades-old report (1966) for basis of #NoEstimates conjectures.

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