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What is Visual Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In a software development organization they increased productivity by more than 500% and achieved 100% release date achievement. In a new product development process, FMC Technologies tripled engineering productivity and reduced lead time by 70%. A version of this interview first appeared on this site in 2015.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead.

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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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Taking the first step towards Scrum

Scrum.org

Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. While working at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) she won the Government of Canada 2015 GTEC Leadership Award for the CRA Agile Transformation. . .

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Taking the First Step toward Scrum

Scrum.org

Once firmly in the domain of software development, practitioners find that Scrum is equally applicable to many other kinds of complex work. While working at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) she won the Government of Canada 2015 GTEC Leadership Award for the CRA Agile Transformation. . .

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In-Depth: How Easily Biases Distort What We Believe (In The Workplace)

Scrum.org

Initially coined by cognitive psychologist Lee Ross (1977), it happens when people underestimate the influence of the situation on the behavior of others while overestimating the influence of their personal traits and beliefs (Berry, 2015). Standish Group, 2015). Vol 5(1) 2015. Standish Group, 2015. Chaos Report 2015.

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Let’s flatten five agile fallacies!

Kiron Bondale

In 2015 I wrote an article intending to debunk some common myths about project management. The Manifesto for Agile Software Development is a curation of specific software delivery values and principles. Make it a goal unto itself and the downstream impacts might result in worse outcomes than your current state.

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