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Using Multi-Product/Portfolio Level Product/Agility Practices To Support Your Project To Product Operating Model Journey

Scrum.org

Most organizations wait way too long to adopt some portfolio-level agility practices. Theyve been told, You cant scale whats broken, so they wait until they nail agile at the team and product group level. Back in 2012 or so, I met an SVP responsible for a 1000-person delivery organization that was working in a traditional waterfall.

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Agile Project Management for Marketing

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Brought on by the struggle to respond and adapt to these times of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity), marketers have increasingly begun to embrace an Agile approach to their project management. Monica Georgieff.

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Agile Project Management: The new go-to for marketing teams in 2020

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Brought on by the struggle to respond and adapt to these times of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity), marketers have increasingly begun to embrace an Agile approach to their project management. Does Agile work for marketing?

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10 Secrets To Being a Good Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The book includes a list of 50 secrets in Appendix D which is a summary of The Standish Group’s Chaos Manifesto 2012: The Year of the Executive Sponsor. I mentor project managers who have told they have to be agile , even when agile methods are not the best way to deliver the kind of change they have been asked to lead.

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The challenges of IT Project Management, with Dave Gordon

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In 2012, I went to Las Vegas for the Pink Elephant ITSM conference. And I think that’s one of the reasons why the Agile approaches are becoming so popular because they do acknowledge that you can’t plan it a lot and then do it. This interview first appeared in 2012 after my conversation with Dave and has been shared again.

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Which estimation methods are favored for adaptive delivery?

Kiron Bondale

I’m not here to rehash the #estimates vs. #noestimates debate, but I felt it might be useful to understand what estimation techniques are being used by teams who are using agile approaches for delivering the scope of their projects.

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20 Years of the Agile Manifesto

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Agile Manifesto Poster Scrum just turned 25 with a big celebration last November. This week marks another big milestone in the agile community, the 20th Anniversary of the Agile Manifesto. To celebrate the moment, you can order a special Agile Manifesto 20th Anniversary Poster Combo. Ron Jeffries (2018).

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