Scrum.org

MARCH 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile, Part 1: Practices & Tools for Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Product Owners. Agile has always been about colocation, about direct communication, physical boards, and all the other haptic and analog moments to create value in the digital realm. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover what you need to know about the different categories of PDUs and how many you need to get, plus some simple and free ways to earn PDUs in 2023. PDUs with the Agile PrepCast $129 Earn 30.5 PDUs by listening to The Agile PrepCast and learning more about agile tools and methods. Free training!

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

When I coach, consult and teach classes, I often get questions about creating an agile maturity tool or defining agile maturity metrics. I also noticed that the purpose and value of agile maturity metrics are misunderstood. Agile comes at a price. Going agile costs money. Agile comes at a price.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 28, 2021

TL; DR: The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities — When Change Agents Don’t Act as Role Models. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, a lack of agile leadership qualities on the incumbents’ side may impede its overall progress significantly despite the best efforts of all other change agents.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

TL; DR: The Agile Metrics Survey 2021. If you value agile practices, it is crucial to know if a job offering or a prospective business partner that claims to be “agile” really keeps its promises. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? The Intention Behind the Agile Metric Survey 2021.

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

Fourth blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach, by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. In this article, we share a few critical guidelines that we use during change initiatives of any size. Resisting change during adoption is a normal human reaction.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 9, 2023

I have been working on agile projects for the past 10 years. A couple of years ago, I asked by an executive how he would know if the money they invested on setting up these agile release trains was working? He was essentially asking me to prove the “ROI” for agile and to measure delivery of value.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 1, 2021

Recently, I have been discussing some reasons why Agile Transformation may fail or go slowly. In this blog, I am presenting some success factors that might help your organization move toward Agility. . As before , we need to emphasize that Agile Transformation is a process that never ends. There is no end state.

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Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2019

8: Objectives and Key Results: How to Set and Manage Goals with OKR Leadership changes in times of agile organizations. In this article we explain why that is, list the most important elements of a kick-off meeting and give you a checklist for planning one. #2: That's exactly what we're going to examine briefly in this blog post. #1:

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

TL; DR: Getting Hired as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach Are you considering a new Scrum Master or Agile Coach job? Read on and learn how to employ search engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reach out to peers in the agile community, and analyze the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. The agile methodology offers project teams a very dynamic way to work and collaborate and that’s why it is a very popular project management methodology for product and software development.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

Regular readers will know that I’m not an expert in Agile, by any means. Int his article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. If you work with Agile methods , you will likely be attending standup meetings every day. Try it: You can ask this question in your standups for agile teams.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2021

In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Viktor Cessan shares lessons learned as an agile coach when working with systems, resulting in evidence-based interventions. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one? I do Systems and Agile coaching and I’m based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this article, I’ll outline the benefits, considerations, and common questions I get from potential members so you can make the right decision for your career. A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working (WoW). Your membership fee gets you: Electronic copies of the PMBOK® Guide and The Agile Practice Guide.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 24, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile (Part 2): Virtual Liberating Structures. Last week, we addressed basic practices and tools of remote agile with distributed teams. Based on that article, I also ran a live virtual class, the recording of which will be made available soon on the Age-of-Product’s Youtube channel. Liberating Structures.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Let’s lead the way to a more agile future together. Exploring this project management aspect within Scrum reveals a complex relationship between project management skills and agile practices which we only just touched upon. Don't want to miss any of these blog posts? We have some scheduled in the coming period.

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The IIL Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. In this article, I explore these principles to demonstrate that any organization can apply them to improve its “way of working.” Transparency Transparency is a core Lean-Agile principle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And this article is a summary of what they replied. It’s a lot to read, so here are some spoilers drawn from common themes I heard time and time again in the interviews: Agile : if you don’t know enough about it, you need to start learning. Helena Lui Helena Lui Agile project management is on the rise.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Perhaps you’ve read many blog posts about how horrible SAFe is, or how useless estimation is, or what the optimal size of a team is. There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. So where do you find it?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Andrea Fryrear, Agile marketing guru at MarketerGizmo , agrees. Too often, project planning models take support for granted or give lip service to it,” says Rick Maurer , author of Beyond the Wall of Resistance (which I thought I had reviewed on this blog but I can’t find it. A version of this article first appeared in 2016.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I was interviewed by Diego Nei for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right). — Today, on our Project Management Methodologies Series, we’re going to interview Elizabeth Harrin, from the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. Take it further.

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Scrum.org

JULY 22, 2021

In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, John Cutler delves into the advantages of linking strategy to everyday work: Motivation, inspiration, seeing the big picture despite working on a small iteration. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley. He hosts the Agile for Humans podcast and most recently co-wrote Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions for Common Scrum Problems with Todd Miller for PragProg. Do you want to get future articles in your inbox? Do you want to get future articles in your inbox?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this highly engaging talk at the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Jimmy Janlén addresses the core element of “Agile,” it’s key to speed, innovation, and success: team autonomy. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ??

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

By the end of this article, hopefully, you will have a better understanding of how to approach requirements gathering (which we should really call eliciting requirements) for your next project! If you work in an agile team , this happens through backlog grooming and sprint planning. Be consistent. Documenting requirements.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2019

From an agile point of view, we want to take advantage of planning , which is to think through critical issues in advance, but not take on the risks of overthinking or making commitments too early. This is the focus of this article, as shown by the red rectangle. Material for this blog was adapted from Choose Your WoW!

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns — Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid. We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Remote Agile Anti-Patterns: Collaboration.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Agile Rises from the Tech Store to the Top Floor. One way for them to do this is by embracing an Agile mindset. It will be first and foremost a priority to build a solid foundation of project management skills in these nations in order to then introduce more adaptive and agile approaches. Managing Changes in Change Management.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This article is part of a blog series dedicated to the book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. What is the place for organizational functions that are rarely the primary focus of an Agile Transformation: legal , procurement, HR ?

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 18, 2023

Sometimes a team is new to agile and just wants to know if they are on the right track. A blog article describing “fake Agile” may be resonating a bit too much for comfort. First however, I suggest examining the question itself, “Am I doing Agile right?” It turns out that “agile” isn’t really a process.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

We intuitively know that a successful agile adoption requires more than copying agile practices. You may have seen the “agile iceberg” model that shows the visible practices agile teams perform as the tip of an enormous iceberg supported by a mindset, values and principles. Belief in the core agile mindset and values.

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Scrum.org

JULY 16, 2021

There are loads of blog posts, articles and podcasts about agile - what it should be, what it should do, how it should look? Using funny anecdotes as well as real-life experiences, John and Tobias bring you a raw yet inspiring account of agile in motion, a consolidation of a decade of experience right to your ears. . .

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Inloox

MAY 6, 2021

In recent years, “agile” has become an increasingly important topic in the corporate world. Driven by the need for better performance, efficiency and results, companies are using various agile management methods. For many teams , this agile management method has become an indispensable tool for effective collaboration.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This blog is a continuation of my previous one , where I mainly focused on customers. 1. ” There are several reasons explaining why these Product Owners have little knowledge about the revenue/cost of their products (for instance, unempowered Product Owners, project-oriented organizations, and so on), but this blog post is not about it.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 27, 2022

received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? I do have an article on this, by the way, it’s called mirror mirror on the wall , who is the most and I won’t say anymore. That article has been out there since September, 2018. Disciplined Agile. It’s amazing.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects. Read Peter Landau’s article How to Write a Business Case to learn more about its structure.

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