NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

Agile is more than a methodologyits a mindset that has revolutionized how organizations deliver value, adapt to change, and foster collaboration. From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2023

Sitting at lunch during Agile 2023, I felt deja vu. I have attended many Agile conferences. I have witnessed the growth of Scrum, the rise of DevOps, the impact of XP, the expansion of SAFe, and the growing connection to professional coaching. At Agile 2023, I did not feel that. My first was in Chicago in 2009.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

The conference serves developers, team leads, architects and project managers. Change Management 2020 Conference. Change management is changing, and this is the annual meet-up to stay updated on the shifting environment. Global Scrum Gathering. Agile & Beyond . May 3-6, Anaheim, CA.

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2020 PMO PMI Underperforming Technical Team 410

Scrum.org

JUNE 30, 2020

Becoming agile is about more than just Jira and Scrum. An agile executive would know. In this Lunch and Learn, Robb Pieper, CEO of Responsive Advisors will discuss areas affected by the agile delivery with some general solutions to common problems in seven areas.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope management is the way to deal with that, so let’s talk about how we can use change control protocol to help with it all. What is change control and why is it important? Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2009 Risk Management Controlling 472

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I think events like this are showing how diverse the project management community is. Change Management 2019: Orlando, Florida, USA, 28 April-1 May 2019. The Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) is hosting their annual conference in Orlando, Florida this year. Agile 2018: Washington, D.C.,

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2021

Hybrid project management is a trending topic at the moment. It refers to the tailoring of the project management approach in use to deliver work. Having said that, I think organizations have always taken a tailored approach, but the part that was missing in the formal project management guidance was often the permission to deviate.

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Telecoms 2021 Prince2 PMI 479

Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2024

TL; DR: How to Deal with the Agile Job Crisis While the current Agile job crisis is apparent, there is also hope for practitioners willing to refine their skills, share knowledge, and network with peers. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing ; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? I was interested in learning more about a typical daily challenge many agile practitioners face: How shall we successfully pursue an agile transformation? Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 1, 2016

Regular readers will know that I’m not at all experienced in formal Agile project management, but I know it is something that I need to know more about. Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban. Agile Methods: The Basics. Let’s dive in.

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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. Resisting change during adoption is a normal human reaction. Resisting change is not only inevitable; it is necessary for a change to become successful.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Underperforming Technical Team 218

ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

A – Project Management Terms Acceptance Criteria The metric by which a project will be measured to determine whether it is successful or not. As the methodology has gained in popularity, agile (with a small “a”) has become a general business approach to support a more flexible working style with quick turn-around.

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Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Lean Event Chain 418

Scrum.org

JANUARY 1, 2024

I have been trainer in PRINCE2® and PRINCE2 Agile®, in Management of Portfolios (MoP®) and Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O®), and in AgilePM®. Not that these project management methodologies were no good; they did help me understand what works and what doesn't in a given context. All rights reserved.

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Prince2 SCRUM 2001 PMI 202

NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Continuous Innovation: From Agile methodologies to change management, these influencers are at the forefront of evolving project delivery practices. Elizabeth is also a prolific author, having published seven books on project and change management.

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Influencer 2025 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 111

Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2021

Agile Leadership: How to Close the Knowing-Doing Gap. Smart leaders send their management teams on Agile training courses and leadership courses only to find that the learning doesn’t translate into action and therefore improvement. The training spend is wasted and the organisation doesn’t improve.

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Closing Leadership Agile Controlling 222

Kiron Bondale

JUNE 13, 2021

I’ve written previously about my three tests for assessing agility: are we delivering value to our stakeholders early and regularly, are we progressively improving quality, and are we helping our customers, team members and key stakeholders to be awesome. An agile team is a learning team. Let’s start with a simple example.

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Agile Closing Leadership SCRUM 214

Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

In Kürze: Die Agile Jobkrise – Wie Sie eine herausfordernde Situation meistern Während die derzeitige Agile Jobkrise offensichtlich ist, gibt es auch Hoffnung für Praktiker, die bereit sind, ihre Fähigkeiten zu verfeinern, Wissen zu teilen und sich mit Gleichgesinnten zu vernetzen. meine LinkedIn-Gruppe an, die Agile Clinic.)

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Agile SCRUM 2024 Innovation 194

Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Your company has embraced agile and teams now enjoy greater focus and clearer collaboration. Although agile has markedly improved organisations, the full benefits are unattainable unless the entire work system is aligned with agile principles. Managing this transition requires strong change management.

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Agile Technical Review Leadership Finance 213

Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Scrum Master accountability is not fading. However, the Scrum Master role is evolving rapidly to be more capable and standing for true leadership in an ever-changing work environment. Recently, there's been speculation about the relevancy of the Scrum Master role.

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2024 SCRUM 2020 Innovation 193

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? What contexts are Scrum suited to, and which not? Because those beliefs may drive you to make or block decisions or suggest changes, that unintentionally cause harm to individuals, teams, and organizations. . So where do you find it?

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 218

Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2019

You Are not Doing Scrum. You are not doing Scrum." Scrum Police are a legion. If you are not doing , you are not doing Scrum. Now I think that the crux of the problem is twofold: a rigid and orthodox reading of the Scrum Guide and a less than desirable level of practitioners implementing and teaching Scrum these days.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Certification Agile 192

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Here are the main project management certifications offered by the PMI: Project Management Professional (PMP): This certifies that you’re a capable project manager who is competent in waterfall and agile project management. Theoretical and practical project management knowledge. Competencies .

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The article is insightful in why projects fail, defining terms, goals and why project management is similar but different than change management. Agile vs. Scrum vs. Kanban: Weighing the Differences. Some of the newer approaches to project management, like Agile, are controversial.

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2018 Initiating PMO SCRUM 370

Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I frequently see questions asked in project management discussion groups about hybrid projects. As I wrote in last week’s article, projects themselves can’t be waterfall, agile, traditional or hybrid but how we approach them can be. But what does “hybrid” really mean?

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Leadership Agile SCRUM Defining 358

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Tools, Part 1. The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, […].” ( Source.) This half-sentence is probably one of the more often misinterpreted statements of the Scrum Guide. On the one side, it defines the necessity to enhance Scrum with other practices and tools.

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SCRUM Lean 2023 Agile 194

Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In 2013 I wrote an article about the advantages and disadvantages of contract project managers. Competent agile coaches have been in high demand for many years due to the large number of companies across multiple industries who are going through agile transformations. A good agile coach is worth their weight in gold.

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Agile 2013 Sustainability SCRUM 41

Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2022

I think of the three accountabilities in the Scrum framework as creating a balance of power. And the Scrum Master helps to maintain the balance between them. of the accountabilities in Scrum gets a bit — um — power hungry? The Product Owner accountability is critically important for the Scrum Team. The Scrum Master.

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SCRUM Underperforming Technical Team Agile Risk Management 195

Scrum.org

APRIL 8, 2024

The project management principle to enable change to achieve the envisioned future state is inherently supported by the Scrum framework. Scrum's approach, characterized by close stakeholder involvement and iterative development, naturally facilitates the adoption of new behaviors and processes.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2019

During a recent meetup of The Liberators Network, we got together with 30 enthusiastic Scrum Masters. This post combines the shared experience of a large group of Scrum Masters. Participants agreed that “Done” software is the driver of change; software that is released to production and in the hands of users.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Software Review Lean 192

Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2023

Whether teams are new to Scrum or refining their methods, this remains a challenge. Even if a team is driven by value, agility is compromised when validation and value realization take excessively long. The answer lies in the transformative potential of Value Stream Mapping within Scrum. Welcome to the first post.

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SCRUM Software Review Technical Review Software Engineering 172

Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 14, 2024

The most common way of defining different types of project manager is by industry. For example: A Digital Project Manager will oversee projects to do with online initiatives, digital marketing, software, apps and so on. An IT Project Manager is — unsurprisingly — based in the IT department of an organization.

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PMO Construction Engineering Logistics 405

Leading Agile

JANUARY 17, 2023

The core of change management is helping an organization prepare, support, and apply changes to an organization. In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. How Change Management is Typically Implemented. Culture First.

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Change Management Governance Government Agile 126

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

I’m sure you take away tips and ideas for making this your best year yet managing projects at work. 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. Find her on Twitter.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2022

The first is to judge all project manager skills inside the Project Management framework. In this scenario, the broad skill set could include items such as Prince2®, Kanban, Scrum , Sigma Six, or PMBOK standards. The deep focus would be on a single management framework or concept.

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Prince2 Construction SCRUM Risk Management 439

Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

I don’t spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn, but the other day, I was scrolling around and happened to catch a thread where some folks in the Agile community were debating if SAFe was actually Agile. In short, it really comes down to what you mean by Agile and Agility. One of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Governance 133

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 29, 2020

The first is to judge all Project Manager skills inside the Project Management framework. In this scenario, the broad skill set could include items such as Prince2, Kanban, Scrum , Sigma Six, or PMBOK standards. The deep focus would be on a single management framework or concept.

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2009 Prince2 SCRUM Construction 351

Henny Portman

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The book “ The Lean-Agile Way – Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management ” by Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway provides a comprehensive roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and enhance service delivery.

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Lean Technical Review Agile Sustainability 52