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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 3, 2023

Holly Davis, Digital Project Manager for White October At the Digital PM Summit in Philadelphia, a conference full of digital project managers (DPMs), it was interesting to hear about the various ways DPMs have found their way into a career in project management. Can you be a PM without a PMP ?

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Conferences, trainings and meetings make heavy use of them. Agile Transformations are complex in nature. The Agile Transformation Kata is such a practice with a focus to increase agility in an organization. Using a top-down, plan-driven approach for an agile transformation effort is in my opinion fatal. .

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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. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 11, 2017

If you are looking to attend a project management conference this year, chances are there is something close by that will appeal to you. I’ve compiled this extensive list of conferences both local to me in the UK and around the world. 12th International Project Management Conference: Tehran, Iran, 12-13 February 2017.

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Scrum.org

JULY 22, 2024

I write a lot about incremental delivery because it is so central to the success of Agile teams. Incremental delivery is the idea that Agile teams should deliver value in smaller pieces of usable product. This approach increases predictability and enables Agile teams to deliver value sooner and reduce risk.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2024

In times of organizational challenges, the temptation to cut costs often leads some to view Agile frameworks as a luxury rather than a necessity. However, dismissing Agile as a luxury is a mistake that comes from underestimating the transformative power of Agile frameworks for solving complex problems.

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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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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. Yet the anticipated business benefits have not materialized.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto has arrived, it makes me look back at how the world has changed over the past 20 years and what it may look like over the next 20. . First and foremost, the use of Agile has grown well beyond software. driving the discussion of agile or at least agility.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. It’s probably worth paying for the travel to a day-long event or conference but less worth it for evening seminars or breakfast meetings. Regular magazine.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Look for: Training sessions or courses (internal or external) Organization meetings like attending PMI Chapter events Seminars Webinars Conferences (virtual or in-person). My recommended training course for PMP ® certificate holders wanting to quickly earn more PDUs is The Agile PrepCast for PDUs. PDUs with the Agile PrepCast.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 30, 2021

In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Dave West talks about why orienting to value rather than work is a crucial requirement for building an agile capability: Velocity of Value. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 31,000-plus other subscribers. ??

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Have you ever wondered if there is a better way to fund and monitor agile delivery? Watch Robb Pieper, CEO of Responsive Advisors popular talk on on agile financing recorded live at the 2019 PMI Global Conference in Philadelphia, PA. . Traditional methods of annual budgeting often miss the mark. Wonder no more.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

His books include the Agile Almanac trilogy and, most recently, Enterprise Agility in Healthcare. John is a PMP, Certified Disciplined Agile Instructor (CDAI), PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Scrum Master. lanes) during facilitated conference call discussions. What’s in it for me?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In this energizing 44th Hands-on Agile session on product backlog management, Allan Kelly clarified one thing: The backlog was a great idea until it wasn’t. Product discovery, dual-track agile, OKRs, etc., Watch the video now : Allan Kelly: Honey, I Shrunk the Backlog — Hands-on Agile 44. ? The Product Backlog.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s no longer necessary for agile teams to be co-located, either. And the CAB meetings have always been conference calls for us unless the members of the CAB happened to be on-site at the same time. What is the role of a release manager in agile teams? In many cases – though not all – remote work is an option.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2022

In 2012, I went to Las Vegas for the Pink Elephant ITSM conference. I took some time out of the conference to meet Dave Gordon, author and the project management expert behind The Practicing IT Project Manager website, which has sadly since been taken offline as I believe Dave has now retired. I don’t think there’s a way around that.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

Read on and learn how to employ search-engines, LinkedIn’s people search, reaching out to peers in the agile community, and analyzing the event markets in the quest for your next Scrum Master job. ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 29k other subscribers. Job advertisement. Job interview.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 26, 2016

Learning to successfully manage agile projects requires you to first familiarise yourself with the concept of Agile. What is the agile methodology? The agile movement first began in the 1970s when it was introduced by a doctor named Winston Royce. Where did it start? What does it truly encompass? Where It All Began.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

Then you can tailor your application to mention agile approaches, predictive or hybrid ways of working. Excellent communication and presentation skills gained from speaking at conferences, delivering online and face-to-face training, and facilitating workshops in a professional setting. Describe your project management skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 3, 2017

Iterate to create agility. Agile and Scrum serves exactly that. Our business execution will never be perfect – but we can teach our teams to be Agile. Joel “Thor” Neeb will be speaking at the Agile and Scrum Virtual Conference, going live on May 4 th. Find out more here: www.iil.com/agile-and-scrum-conference/.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values. Scrum Roles.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Agile projects use story point estimating to assign a number that represents the amount of effort to implement a user story. It’s a technique that agile teams use to make sure their next iteration is always focused on the right things. Another staple of the agile project team: the daily stand-up meeting. Story points.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

Look for: Training sessions or courses (internal or external) Organization meetings like attending PMI Chapter events Seminars Webinars Conferences (virtual or in-person). PDUs with the Agile PrepCast $129 Earn 30.5 PDUs by listening to The Agile PrepCast and learning more about agile tools and methods.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agile frameworks like Scrum are used in complex environments where more is unknown than known. Promotes Agility and Innovation: Allowing the roadmap to change encourages a culture of agility and innovation. Join us at this year's premier Scrum Day conference on October 23, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Project Bliss

JUNE 7, 2017

You’ve heard your friends sing the praises of Agile. Good news – there are Agile practices you can use even in your waterfall world. And you’ll get a chance to introduce some Agile practices to your team. Without having to transition the whole organization to full-on Agile. Photo credit rawpixel.com.

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Growing Agile

JULY 6, 2020

This is the second part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. Let them have Mastery over their craft, pay for them to go on courses or conferences, let them play with new tech when the opportunity arises. The post The 12 Agile Principles. appeared first on Growing Agile.

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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. Remote Agile Anti-Patterns: Collaboration. What about our culture?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

And if you subscribe to the natural alignment of feminine leadership qualities with what we seek to enable in agile and the future of work, then you must agree women agilists are uniquely positioned to dynamically change the world and make it a better place. We, as agilists, are a force that stimulates change or progress. Giving Your Glow.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 1, 2024

This article aims to demonstrate that agile practices, the ones we so passionately teach, can be applied beyond the obvious. If you're wondering if this is gonna be an entire ad for the book, don't worry. It won't be (maybe a little). Let's be honest from the beginning; it wasn't as smooth as we hoped. However, over this 2.5-year

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Project Management Institute approach has been to bring more agile into the main guide, and to publish it alongside the Agile Practice Guide. The PRINCE2 guidance is not specifically agile , but it could be adapted to be so. There is also PRINCE2 Agile as a specific, different qualification you can get.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A lot of talk in the Agile space centres on breaking down silos, and yet it appears that in practice it is one of the things that is met with the most inertia. The old divides remain, despite efforts at Agile adoption. This was driven by the team members themselves, not an Agile Coach or manager.

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Green Project Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Regenerative Leadership in Project Management: Essential for 2024 and Beyond In an age where buzzwords like “Transformational Leadership”, “Servant Leadership”, and “Agile Management” dominate boardrooms and workshops, one might ask: “What about Regenerative Leadership?”

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