Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

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. Going all in on agile teams was one alternative. Are Your Traditional Portfolio Processes Inhibiting Innovation and Agility?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to project management. A burn up chart is a tool used in agile project management to measure progress. Scrum teams working in an agile environment use a burn up chart to help them measure progress.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Agile release planning, also known as scrum release planning, is an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach. From this grew the Agile methodology, and with it agile release planning (also known as scrum release planning). How does that fit into an agile project? What Is an Agile Release Plan?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2019

More along the lines of project management, though, is the Agile Manifesto. Agile is a bit of a controversial topic in the field. Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. What Is Agile? You’re not alone.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It's a simple question, "Who owns the risks in agile projects?" In this article, let's uncover the role of risk owners and how to perform risk management in agile projects. Agile projects require collaboration between stakeholders, and risk ownership helps ensure that tasks are properly delegated and managed among them.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

One of the biggest reasons agile fails to take root inside these organizations is resistance or hesitation from their executive teams. Their hesitation toward Agile often comes from a place of caution, rooted in a preference for traditional methods that provide clear metrics and established processes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2025

When there is an Agile Transformation happening in an organization, the status quo in the organization is challenged. The answer often to this is to make teams adopt agile practices, methods or frameworks but the leadership, management and rest of the organization stays in its own existing structures. A leader needs to lead by example.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 19, 2024

Kanban boards are visual workflow tools used to manage tasks, help avoid bottlenecks and are ideal for agile teams who want to manage their backlog and plan sprints—all of which won’t work on Microsoft Lists. It integrates with To Do and Tasks in Teams and as stated earlier works well in an agile environment.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2024

This approach lends itself to all project management methodologies, from a traditional waterfall approach, agile environment or hybrid. Project Managers A project manager is responsible for the planning, executing and closing of a specific project. For example, it helps with selecting, defining and delivering projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2020

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. Agile is agile is agile?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

Agile methods need Agile teams — teams that think differently and work in ways that support responsive delivery. An agile mindset, and a set of shared values, principles, and often Agile tools, help Agile teams succeed. So why are agile teams different to other types of ‘classic’ project team?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

My most successful projects have one thing in common; I used an agile approach to deliver them. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines the five process groups as Initiate, Planning, Execution, Monitor & Control and Closing. . In my experience, agile project teams typically combine these two phases.

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Chuck Cobb Agile Project Management Agile , Agile Project Management Share 0 Tweet 0 Share 0 Agile Project Management now feels like a part of the landscape of the project profession. It’s 7 years since the PMI introduced Agile into the 6th Edition of its Project Management Body of Knowledge.

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Scrum.org

JULY 2, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of project management, Scrum has emerged as one of the most popular frameworks for Agile development. Scrum is a closed feedback loop. Despite its widespread adoption, many misconceptions exist about what Scrum truly entails. Scrum is Not a methodology. Scrum is a Framework. Scrum is Not linear.

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The IIL Blog

AUGUST 14, 2024

By Steven Briggs While it’s commonly believed that Agile environments don’t need resource planning, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Since Agile methodologies encourage adaptability, flexibility, and collaboration, they only create an efficient system for achieving the company’s goals. So, let’s get started.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2024

In our work helping organisations to deliver successful Agile programmes we have encountered several Agile myths that prevent firms from reaping the rewards that Agile frameworks can offer. Expertly deployed Agile frameworks enable firms to thrive through achieving customer delight.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2024

This preparation involves two key things: paddling—engaging in hard work and continuous learning and growth —and observing—paying close attention to the environment and adjusting strategies accordingly. #1 In the realm of business agility , the journey involves continuous learning, experimenting, and adapting.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Many open-source Microsoft Project alternatives can’t handle traditional, agile and hybrid methodologies, but we can. OpenProject OpenProject is an open-source Microsoft Project alternative designed for traditional, agile or hybrid project management methodologies. Our software is SOC 2 compliant, providing users with data protection.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

They may have job titles like Team Lead, Delivery Manager, Agile Coach, Developer, or even Engineering Manager. The full-time Scrum Master is pivotal in closely monitoring team health, fostering a robust, agile culture, and ensuring that Scrum practices are understood and effectively implemented.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2020

And why focus on improving agile retrospectives? Jordan, what’s happening with the Agile world at the moment? The agile market is growing in size and diversity for a number of reasons, and principle among them is the rise in popularity of the agile way of working itself. This growth has seen a huge rise in agile tools.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In agile methodology , they are typically written as part of user stories in collaboration with product owners, developers and quality assurance (QA) teams. Agile development teams often define acceptance criteria as part of user stories, ensuring clarity before development begins.

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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2024

Business agility is similar to the agility we observe at the team level, but it extends across the entire company. Companies want business agility to outperform their competitors. This blog describes how Business Agility can be achieved with Product Management by moving up on the Org Topologies™ map.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. On launch day itself, the release manager will be closely monitoring things behind-the-scenes to ensure that tech implementation goes smoothly. It’s no longer necessary for agile teams to be co-located, either.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These organizations offer a variety of certifications that focus on different project management methodologies such as agile or scrum, or specific project management knowledge areas such as project scheduling, resource management or risk management. Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP). CompTIA Project+ Certification. Price: $300.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

If you’re a newcomer to all of this, you might be asking yourself: What is Agile even all about? How can organizations such as your own profit from becoming more agile? To understand what Agility is, we have to go back to how things are being done without Agile. This is where Agile can save the day!

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 16, 2024

An executive recently posed a thought-provoking question: Weve been practicing Agile for seven years. This question captures a common challenge in organizations scaling Agile. It highlights a key tension: if Agile is supposed to improve efficiency and effectiveness, why doesnt that translate into fewer people or reduced resource needs?

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Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Agility: separating the wheat from the chaff Next year will show which companies are practising effective agility and who is just “babbling agility”. Because: agility shamanism in the form of philosophical feel-good phrases will be discontinued. More and more companies will come to this realization in 2025.

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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2024

One of the values from manifesto for agile software development is customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Also one of the principles behind the manifesto for agile software development is "business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project".

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, manufacturing product managers are responsible for tangible products, while software development product managers will have different teams and agile workflows to assist in the software product launch. Project management process groups : Project initiation, planning, scheduling, tracking and closing. Certifications.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Stay Close to the Customer: Incremental delivery keeps the customer at the heart of development. An Agile team, on the other hand, would deliver the sandwich one slice at a time. Avoid Overcomplicating Things: When you don’t try to do everything at once, you avoid gold-plating—adding extra, unnecessary features.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2021

Instead of rigidly adhering to a waterfall (predictive) or Agile (iterative) method, project teams pick and choose elements from the range of approaches to choose a way of working that suits them. These are all ideas that align with agile ways of working. I cannot truly say I’ve lead projects using agile techniques.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 3, 2024

What are your thoughts on the role of certifications in Agile? The agile landscape is replete with various certifications, each promising a certain level of proficiency and skill. In the agile community, a growing sentiment suggests that the focus on certifications might be misplaced.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In a recent class, a student asked, “What are the common difficulties teams face when starting with Agile?” For Agile teams, the goal of the Scrum Master or Agile coach is to get teams through the first three phases (Forming, Storming and Norming) as quickly as possible so that the team can get to Performing.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to Digita.ai’s 16th annual report, 87% of organizations using an Agile framework use Scrum. That’s up from 58% of Agile teams using Scrum, as documented in the 14th annual State of Agile report. Why is Scrum so popular? Scrum is simple; that is its power.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s the last step of the ‘traditional’ predictive (waterfall) project lifecycle, but even agile projects close. There will be some areas of your project that you haven’t been able to brief the operational team on until the project is coming to a close. Update the status of all items on electronic To Do lists as closed.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Lean UX Lean UX is a user-centric and iterative approach to product development that combines the principles of Lean Startup, Agile development, and user experience design. Scrum teams are cross-functional and self-managing, while Lean UX promotes close cooperation between designers, developers, and stakeholders.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 29, 2022

The best Scrum teams that I have worked with were supported by management leaders focused on removing impediments, providing resources, and promoting an agile mindset and culture that supports the Scrum values. Making it more challenging are the agile leadership myths out there that can get in the way of being effective.

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