ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Some of these are called organizational process assets. These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. To make sure you understand what organizational process assets are, first, we’ll define the terms and explain their importance. What Is an Organizational Process Asset?

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Each kata focuses on a particular area (such as governance, practices, roles, events, or artifacts) and is designed to shift mindsets, structures, or processes in a way that provides incremental, scalable benefits over time. EXAMPLES OF ELEVATING KATAS Elevating Katas are not one-off workshops or temporary campaigns.

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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 15, 2023

As a business grows, it needs to look at new processes or ways to improve the processes it has in place. Whatever the objectives, process implementation is how they achieve these goals. If you’re looking to improve your business processes , you need to know what process implementation is and why it’s so important.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2025

Some people believe cross-functional teams can be very productive, given they have clear governance, accountability, specific goals, suitable project management tools , as well as the organization to invest in and prioritize their success. Cross-functional agile teams are common. It depends on who you ask.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 7, 2024

Complexity stands in the way of application agility. Once that fear takes hold, organizations and engineering teams mitigate it by adding layers of processes to ensure quality. Over time, this leads to increasing complexity in both processes and systems architecture. WHAT CREATES APPLICATION AGILITY? The main culprit?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 1, 2022

Through this process of detailed examination, the change control board decides on the viability of the change request or makes recommendations accordingly. The change manager is responsible for documenting the change management process and the necessary plans to implement the change. Developing a Process for the Change Control Board.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How organizations are structured, managed, and governed will be increasingly like that of digital natives. Projects encourage a focus on processes, milestones, and tasks, whereas products focus on outcomes, objectives, and value. To ensure an agile approach, there must be a clear flow from objectives, investment, and measurement.

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WorkOtter

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Implementing a strong governance framework involves setting up clear processes for project approval, oversight, and review. Governance should be designed to ensure that all projects align with strategic goals and that they are executed according to standardized best practices. What is Portfolio Governance?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2019

To do so requires business agility. What Is Business Agility? Business agility is just as it says, a way for businesses to remain agile when markets fluctuate, as they have a tendency to do. Business agility then is an organizational method to help businesses adapt quickly to market changes.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Agile teams often struggle with how to size and forecast upcoming work. In fact, flow metrics can provide more accurate planning and forecasting than using points or hours—and they keep things agile, not bogged down in endless debates over estimates.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PRINCE2 Agile Foundation. PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner. PRINCE2 has its roots in the UK public sector and government but is now used and loved around the world. Someone in an Agile environment will benefit most from the Agile version as it is the best fit for their working practices.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Hybrid Project Management: The Next Step for Agile. It’s certainly something I’ve used: ongoing iterations for development with significant customer involvement in the deliverables at all stages, but managed within a waterfall governance structure and life cycle. The future of project management needs to be more agile.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Lack of consistency, frequent scope changes, and poor governance are three of the most common reasons that projects fail. If you recognize these challenges, a structured project methodology, such as the Stage Gate process, can help you overcome them, by bringing control and consistency to your deliveries. Sounds pretty good, right?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Hybrid Project Management: The Next Step for Agile. It’s certainly something I’ve used: ongoing iterations for development with significant customer involvement in the deliverables at all stages, but managed within a waterfall governance structure and life cycle. The future of project management needs to be more agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It’s a predictive methodology, although PRINCE2 Agile ® allows for agile frameworks. Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. There’s a process to guide work through the stages so there is adequate control at every point.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 24, 2022

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 27, 2019

But greater flexibility generally requires a more skillful approach to governance and project management. An important business agility principle is that context counts. What you need instead is advice on what process decisions you should consider, what your options are, and what the associated trade-offs are.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lean portfolio management is a process by which strategy is aligned with execution using a lean approach and agile portfolio operations and governance. Lean project management is part of an agile methodology that aims to increase customer value by removing project waste. Execute Lean Governance.

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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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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In this video, we explore the evolving landscape of Agile and examine why traditional frameworks may fall short in complex, large-scale organizations. Our discussion highlights the importance of stable teams, clear backlogs, and tested products—”The 3 Things”—as foundational for Agile success. Where are we at? Yeah, 2001.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. 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.

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Accidental PM

MARCH 30, 2025

Agile, Scrum, and traditional project management methods each offer unique benefits depending on the nature of the project and the industry. Understanding the Project Management Approaches Agile Methodology Agile is a flexible, iterative project management approach emphasizing adaptability and collaboration.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Many of the traditional project management processes, tools, and techniques used in operational projects do not apply to strategic or innovation projects. Flexible approaches such as agile and Scrum have been found to be more effective than the traditional waterfall approach on many projects. This is no longer the case.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Not something you’ll use on every project but your business might routinely need to use EVA if, for example, you do government contract work in the US. Whether that’s a quality issue, a software bug, a broken process, or human error – it’s all worth investigating. Another staple of the agile project team: the daily stand-up meeting.

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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. The name kanban means billboard in Japanese, and you can see why, as the process involves placing tasks represented by cards on physical or digital kanban boards. What Is Scrum?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It’s an agile activity which looks like it ought to be a no-brainer for teams…something they’d want to buy into, and of clear value to all. Everyone else seems to have more important matters to attend to than another piece of agile “fluff”. The canvas as an agile artefact. Lessons from a start-up. Why, though?

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 3, 2022

For every person who adamantly insists that estimates are needed to support proper governance, someone else will argue that the inherent wrongness of an estimate and how estimates are abused will wipe out any benefits of defining them. Throughput and Monte Carlo received 11% of the votes and #NoEstimates only received 5%.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The concept of self-managing teams is not just a characteristic of Scrum; it is one of the foundational principles of the Agile Manifesto, where the term “self-organizing teams” is used (note that discussing similarities and differences between self-organising and self-managing is an unnecessary detour in the context of this article).

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 13, 2025

This isn’t like make people aware of Agile and then they’ll just figure it out. And we get hung up often on the practices and everything around Agile. And what we’ve lost is what are the elements of the ecosystem that make Agile actually work. We have to be really, really clear. All self-organized, right?

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

A rolling wave plan starts with knowing the major milestones or governance points. These could be anchored by project phases, major deliverables, key governance review points or simply that you have chosen to plan in three-month increments. How to create a rolling wave plan. Finally, include the long-range tasks.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

They may mainly work with agile approaches and often in a client-facing business such as an agency (although large firms may have in-house Digital PMs too). A Legal Project Manager supports legal teams to deliver either process improvements and internally-facing work, or legal projects for clients.

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