ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project through short planning cycles called sprints. By using incremental steps towards completing a project, agile teams can easily adjust their project plan or product development plan to better meet their customer requirements.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Over the past decade, the landscape of project management has been significantly influenced by the rise of Agile methodologies and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Despite the emphasis on flexibility in Agile, maintaining a high level schedule is essential for tracking progress and ensuring that project milestones are met.

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MPUG

JULY 12, 2024

From time to time, articles keep emerging on our feed that Agile teams are failing. A popular article by Deloitte, “ How fragile is your Agile , ” covers the six common pitfalls teams face when using Agile for project management. are using Agile as of 2022 with a success rate of 64%. You cannot apply Agile here.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Learning to successfully manage agile projects requires you to first familiarize 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. Read next: 5 Agile team structures that work. #2: 3: Feedback.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 18, 2022

Throughout this blog, I use a variety of terms such as meeting, event, and workshop ostensibly as synonyms. By improving facilitation, it should also help to improve the interactions within Scrum events and also improve participatory decision making. So, what is facilitation? . Could it hobble on and ‘get there’?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As an agile coach I often have Scrum Masters come up to me because management is complaining there are too many meetings in Scrum and that their developers aren't 100% utilised on developing the products. Why is it that so many people walk away from a Scrum event saying it was a waste of time, boring or not relevant to them?

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Lean and Agile frameworks have gained significant traction, offering innovative approaches to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and foster collaboration. As we enter 2025, a variety of top-tier conferences dedicated to Lean and Agile practices are on the horizon. The event includes talks in both Japanese and English.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We have a flexible tool that works across traditional, hybrid and agile methodologies on Mac, Windows and Linux systems with project and portfolio management tools. To get those advanced features and security on a collaborative platform, why not try ProjectManager ? Our price is competitive and the same for big and small organizations.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I would run a series of individual one-to-one meetings and also a team kick-off event. For example, if you are going to use Agile methods , make sure everyone is aware of that. If they haven't worked with Agile before, you might need to do some follow-up sessions to help them understand what it means to work in an Agile team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2024

Steps You Can Take as a Project Manager to Transition to a Professional Use of the Scrum Framework: Understand Core Scrum Principles: Familiarize yourself with the non-negotiable elements of Scrum—its roles, events, artifacts, and rules—to ensure these foundations are respected and maintained.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A couple of days ago Gojko Adjic made an awesome comment about Agile. He says, Before complaining that Agile/Scrum/whatever is dead, consider instead that it's become a norm. Now this was in response to the posts/articles that he was seeing with captions like “agile is dead”. I capture the MoM for events and maintain.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Many conferences have early bird pricing so it is worth checking out the events that interest you as soon as you can in case you need to get corporate funding to attend. Make sure you sign up for the free Attend a Conference Checklist before you go to any of these events. January to March 2019.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2022

TL; DR: Agile Micromanagement. Nevertheless, the prevailing cause of many messed-up attempts to use Scrum result from what I call agile micromanagement, a pseudo-commitment to agile principles only to be overridden whenever it seems beneficial from a stakeholder’s or manager’s perspective. Reasons for Agile Micromanagement .

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

Laszlo Bock, formally on the senior management team of Google, will be the closing speaker of the event. For the agile enthusiast, this scrum gathering takes place twice a year since 2013. Agile & Beyond . Agile continues to be on the ascent in project management, and this is the place to stay current and not be left behind.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A Disciplined Agile Approach to Optimizing Your Way of Working (WoW). Chapter Varies Members who also want to be involved in their local events/community. Your membership fee gets you: Electronic copies of the PMBOK® Guide and The Agile Practice Guide. Online events, webinars, etc. A PDF copy of Choose Your WoW!

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2025

Sprint Retrospective - The event to tap into your improvements. Sprint Retrospective is the concluding event on the Sprint, timeboxed for 3 hours or less for 1 month Sprint. This notion is pretty clear with other events as compared to Sprint Retrospective.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The four types of project management methods are: Data gathering and analysis methods Estimating methods Meetings and events Other (because it’s always worth having a bucket category for anything else, right?). Agile projects use story point estimating to assign a number that represents the amount of effort to implement a user story.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2022

I always get one question from the candidates: Can Agile be applied in a fixed-bid project? The first thing to learn about agile is not to commit to something that you do not know and how incremental progress is the only way to predict the future. Is Agile Context-Dependent. So, how can you approach Fixed-bid projects in Agile?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But, in terms of for example process and role complexity, Scrum weighs much less compared to most “agile” methodologies. Less rules, less artifacts, less events, less process, less roles. Lighter than other frameworks in that it brings us only the required parts. Just less; of everything.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Since then, IPM Day has grown into a global movement, with thousands of events, webinars, awards, and publications dedicated to promoting the value and importance of project management. According to participants, IIL’s IPM Day online events have continuously helped them with valuable advice and necessary actions.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Kanban & Project Management Kanban project management works in an agile framework. Kanban & Agile Software Development Kanban proved a good fit for the burgeoning software development field, especially those projects that worked in an agile environment that was responsive to change.

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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. At Agile 2023, I did not feel that. The challenges they discussed could be traced to classic business change management issues rather than anything unique to agility. My first was in Chicago in 2009.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Scrum is the most popular Agile framework. According to the latest State of Agile survey from Digital.ai, 90% of teams who are using an Agile framework are using Scrum. For example, Scrum includes five events: the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 19, 2023

Examples of ways to earn Giving Back PDUs include: Doing your day job Sharing your knowledge through publishing articles, podcasts, videos on your own website, your company website or a community platform Giving a presentation at an event Teaching others. PDUs with the Agile PrepCast $129 Earn 30.5

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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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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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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

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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Scrum.org

JULY 30, 2024

Geoff Watt in one of his tweets mentioned Great product owners are humble enough to realise that they don’t have all the facts and that there are multiple ways to interpret an event. One of the values from manifesto for agile software development is customer collaboration over contract negotiation.

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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

MAY 19, 2023

The Creating Agile Organizations approach is about designing your own organizational framework and coaching its adoption. It is important to note that it is different from frameworks like Scrum, LeSS or SAFe, which have specific structures, rules, events, and artefacts to build upon. Loosely coupled Product Groups with shared services.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2022

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? Our Agile profession is filled with frameworks. In our practice, we understand them as an overview of roles, events, artifacts, and principles. It shows the events and the artifacts, as well as the roles. The strength of this claim varies.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TL; DR: Resistance to Agile Transformations Stakeholders often revert to resistance to agile transformations due to fears about job security, perceived loss of control, comfort with established practices, and misconceptions about Agile. For them, embracing Agile might feel like admitting those sacrifices were in vain.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

Ask a dozen people what agile is and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Scrum is a way to manage a project within an agile framework and is made up of three roles: product owner, scrum master and team. For this post, we’re going to take a deep dive into one of the events in the scrum framework, sprint planning.

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