ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. How do you know if agile is for you? Scrum Methodology.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. Portfolio Sync.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before we talk about the comparison and contrast between Scrum Master and Agile Leader, people often compare and contrast Scrum Master and Agile Coach, and they often ask me, what’s the difference? They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This article originates from a combination of events. First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. This is where Lean principles come into play.

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Lean Transportation Engineering Software Review 64

Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2023

As Scrum.org trainers, we often come across common misconceptions from course attendees about Agile and Scrum. We tend to hear red flags of misalignment when we explore folk's current definitions and understanding of Agile and Scrum at the start of our courses. Agile eliminates the need for planning or documentation.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 19, 2024

Kanban and scrum are agile project management methodologies that can be used for similar purposes, but each has its unique pros and cons. Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. What Is Kanban? What Is Scrum?

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity , a lean process doesn’t happen overnight. The intersection point: a vast opportunity!

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Manufacturing Lean Process Software Review 104

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In this article, I’ll explore the need for and the attributes of an agile business operating system related to Private Equity (PE) portfolio companies. Dealing with common business challenges through agility. This affects product innovation as well as GTM innovation and other key business processes. .

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Innovation 195

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. It can serve as a baseline, but most project managers ought to layer some sort of agile certification on top of it. Find her on Twitter.

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2023 Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 418

Leading Answers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On Friday, September 30, I will be presenting a session on Beyond Agile at the HTEC Project Management Virtual Conference. A colleague recently described Beyond Agile as a “Yes, And, And” toolkit, and I thought it was a great way to summarize the two elements of combining hybrid agile with the Theory of Constraints, and value stream view.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. Architecture simulation meeting (event). It’s a participative learning event.

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Software Review Process Lean Cadence 93

Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2024

Potential dangers for project Managers, just picking out two from my experiences Over-Reliance on Predictive Models: Traditional project management often leans towards predictive models, which can be less effective in complex, adaptive scenarios where agile methodologies excel.

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SCRUM Lean Agile Controlling 188

Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2024

Useful Experiences and Skills that a Project Manager Can Bring into a Scrum Team: Adaptive Project Management: Project managers are adept at adapting tools and processes to better suit project goals and team needs, a skill that is invaluable in identifying and integrating useful complementary practices within Scrum.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But what truly lies at the heart of this process, and why is it so crucial? Now, let's address the elephant in the room: unexpected events. Whether it's feedback from stakeholders or unforeseen external events, these surprises can derail our plans. Because you don't just need agility, you need Naked Agility.

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Epicflow Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Are you thinking of attending an event to gain new knowledge, find out recent trends in your industry, share your experience with colleagues, or network with leading experts in your industry? Online Events. Events for Industry Professionals. In-Person Events. Read further to find the most suitable one for yourself. .

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. Source : Scrum Guide 2020.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns, and we analyzed remote Retrospectives and Sprint Plannings based on Liberating Structures. Supporting Liberating Structures.

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Technical Review Development Team Review Agile SCRUM 191

Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Lean Innovation Agile SCRUM 179

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

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Software Review Technical Review Agile SCRUM 52

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While we aim for predictability, the reality is that unexpected events do occur. Perhaps feedback from stakeholders introduces new complexities, or external events, like a sudden surge in users, necessitate a shift in focus. While these surprises are part and parcel of the process, they shouldn't be the norm.

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Planning Consulting Lean SCRUM 185

Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

For example, it participates in organizing events to help support local communities and makes donations to charities and foundations whenever possible. First, however, you might wonder how Disney implements its agile framework at such a large scale. How Did Scaled Agile Framework® Work for Disney?

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns; we analyzed remote Retrospectives, Sprint Plannings as well as remote Sprint Reviews based on Liberating Structures.

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SCRUM Agile Technical Review Development Team Review 179

Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Lean Innovation Agile SCRUM 163

Velociteach

JUNE 7, 2023

Agile seems like a mystery to many. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives. Let’s explore how agile practices can be applied to this common predicament. Agile ceremonies (meetings) are time-boxed, which creates focus and a sense of urgency.

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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. More than a year ago, my Berlin Hands-on Agile meetup started exploring the possibilities to use Liberating Structures specifically in the context of Scrum.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Excessive Planning and Control : The illusion of control among managers results in a tendency to over-plan and control every aspect of the development process. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 191

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Sie können sich hier für den Newsletter „Food for Agile Thought“ anmelden und sich über 35.000 Abonnenten anschließen. ?? Beginnen wir damit, was der Scrum Guide über Empirie besagt: “Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. Inspection enables adaptation.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 36,000-plus other subscribers. ?? ?? ???? Join 875-plus peers—less than 125 to go : The Anonymous Scrum Master and Agile Coach Salary Report 2023. There are at least six areas where enhancing Scrum helps enable business agility.

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International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

IIL’s 6th annual Agile and Scrum Online Conference: Co-Create for Greater Value opens on June 3, 2021. In this article, we’ll preview what you can expect to take away from this unique learning event. View full event and registration details here. Where do teams even begin with agile transformation? Agile Transformation.

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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.

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SCRUM Technical Review Engineering Lean 197

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? And I need to add flight levels to that article, but today I’m going to talk about LeSS, disciplined agile, scrum with scale, SAFe, Nexus. So if you see some process that’s meh , it’s about stripping those away.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Each one of those components connects directly to a TPM goal, and takes into account a different type of productivity loss: Availability: This corresponds to the TPM goal of having no stops in production while taking into account availability loss (all events that stop productive for an appreciable length of time). The 5S’s are as follows.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Let us dig deeper.

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. on Amazon.ca

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Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice. Which Agile Certification program should you follow? Classifying the Agile Certification Providers. I have also included the Axelos PRINCE2 Agile qualifications here. Tier 1: Principle Promotors of Agile Project Management.

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