Scrum.org

MARCH 30, 2025

TL;DR: A Harvard Study of Procter & Gamble Shows the Way Recent research shows AI isnt just another toolits a cybernetic teammate that enhances agile work. For agile practitioners, the choice isnt between humans or AI but between being AI-augmented or falling behind those who are. A reason to embrace generative AI in Agile?

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Generative AI Agile Technical Review 2025 139

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Real Question We Should Be Asking About Agile Transformation The Real Question We Should Be Asking About Agile TransformationFrom 2022 to 2024, Digital Transformation (DT) spending in Western markets is projected to reach a staggering $6.3 When it comes to Agile transformation, the question isn’t, “How can I adopt Framework X?”

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2022

Agile principles are the foundations of agile. Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. This method is based on 12 guiding principles, known as agile principles. What Are the 12 Agile Principles? Agile Core Values.

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Software Review Agile Technical Review Development Team Review 448

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Over time, as people develop fluency in these routines, the organizations agility and resilience increase. The result is a more agile organization, one that continuously aligns its strategy, structure, processes, people, and rewards. This approach to change is subtle but powerful, as it leverages the human capacity to learn by doing.

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Green Project Management

AUGUST 4, 2017

Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W15_PM_EVM-Agile-Considerations. My primary focus is split between sustainable organizational project, programme, portfolio and risk management improvement and organizational sustainable change delivery assessments.

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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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Green Project Management

AUGUST 4, 2017

It is a follow on to a recent post “EVM and Agile – Can they work together?“ “ Once again, this post is not specifically about sustainable change delivery. The post EVM and Agile – Project Reporting appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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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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Agile Cadence Executing Sustainability 127

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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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2019

These days, it seems like everybody is all about doing things agile. So if a foundation of agile is working fast and changing rapidly and often, while continuing to iterate on the project, what’s the definition of done in agile? But first, let’s get some more background on agile and its methods.

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Agile Software Review Technical Review 2001 388

Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2021

TL; DR: Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level w/ Jorgen Hesselberg — ACB21. Do we dare to say: Sometimes, agility is a solution looking for a problem? ?? You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 32,000-plus other subscribers. ?? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Sustainability 2021 Agile Consulting 203

Scrum.org

JULY 4, 2022

Did you know that there are 17 United Nation, sustainable development goals. And that could include consideration for those 17 United Nation sustainable development goals. Now those 17 United Nation sustainable development goals, they do compete against each other. Greenwashing is just a waste of energy.

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Sustainability Agile Energy SCRUM 200

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 about sustainable development. Despite its widespread adoption, many misconceptions exist about what Scrum truly entails. Scrum is Not anti-management. Scrum requires effective management.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 20, 2021

The Agile transformation business to be more precise. My core activity is coaching focused on Agility, i.e. influencing people to move towards (a (higher) state of) Agile. I want to share my opinion on what makes an Agile transformation successful. Bringing Agile into an organisation will change the social boundaries.

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Sustainability Agile Influencer Initiating 243

Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2025

Agile/Product Management Perspective Vibe Coding and Alignment with Agile Principles From an Agile perspective, vibe coding presents intriguing possibilities. The core Agile principle of responding to change over following a plan perfectly aligns with vibe codings flexibility.

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Software Review Technical Review Agile Development Team Review 130

Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2025

Collaboration enhances the quality of work and accelerates the problem-solving process, making the organisation more agile and responsive to changes. This agility allows the organisation to pivot quickly in response to market trends, competitive pressures, or unexpected challenges, ensuring long-term sustainability.

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SCRUM 2024 Sustainability Construction 202

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Aiming towards Sustainable Pace. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely." - The Agile Manifesto Principle. If you are an agile leader - do you know whether your teams are currently operating at a sustainable pace?

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Sustainability SCRUM Agile Software Development 204

The IIL Blog

JULY 24, 2024

This balance will be key to achieving effective and sustainable strategic value realization. Flexible approaches such as agile and Scrum have been found to be more effective than the traditional waterfall approach on many projects. New methodologies, such as agile and Scrum, have a strong focus on collaboration.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2018

Sustainability. The sustainability of a project can play a major role in the long-term strategy of a company, and can often affect a project’s success. There are three parts of sustainability: social, environmental, and economic. Tool for Handling Sustainability. Apply the P5 standard for sustainability to your projects.

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Technical Review Software Review Sustainability Risk Management 393

Inloox

JANUARY 5, 2022

Agile is here to stay. Sustainability & social responsibility. Even beyond Agile, there is a shift in thinking in the industry. Agile is here to stay Agile has always been something like the somewhat rebellious, younger, and cooler sibling in project management. Value and principle-based perspective.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

For this blog, I’ll be focussing on the latter, which is coaching people, teams and organisation as a dedicated Agile Coach — a rather popular phenomenon but at the same time a confusing, perhaps even a contradicting one. You know you’re doing a lousy job as an Agile Coach when the Scrum Team relies on you to do Scrum.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Leaders wonder why agile transformations haven't delivered better results. The reason is that agility isn’t about managing projects with set scopes and timelines; it's about delivering continuous value through products that evolve based on customer needs. It is a long-term, sustainable approach that minimizes technical debt.

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Technical Review Infrastructure Manufacturing Initiating 195

Scrum.org

JANUARY 26, 2023

The story of Capital One laying off hundreds of people in Agile roles is making the rounds. One example is the VP of Engineering in a growing startup, who decided to take on the SAFe RTE role (Chief Scrum Master for the Agile Release Train) since they felt it was up to them to provide this sort of leadership. Probably not.

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Agile Sustainability 2023 SCRUM 218

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the PM Radar 2021, the top current trend spot is shared by two entries – Agile project management and remote work. The Agile trend has been around for a while, so much so that it’s hardly a ‘trend’ any longer. Once again, we see the strong belief that there is further for Agile project management to go.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

On June 30th Christopher Handscomb and I presented a webinar based on our joint research on the topic of the value of enterprise agility. Firstly, I see Enterprise agility - building an agile organizational system - as being all about creating resilience and sustainability over time. And I really mean active engagement.

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Agile Technical Review Development Team Review SCRUM 254

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 15, 2022

And here are some others: Sustainability: Does the thing support sustainability goals? Has it been created with sustainability in mind? On an agile project, this is something you’ll do for each sprint, as the contents of each sprint are known. Quality management in agile projects. Can we use it?

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Planning Software Review Sustainability Controlling 467

Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2020

Completing an Agile Coaching certification doesn’t make you an Agile Coach. Just to be clear, this bare-bones guide isn’t the only way of becoming an effective Agile coach but does contain enough to give you a solid foundation so you can be useful, effective and deliver a ton of value to your clients and the organisations you serve.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 10, 2024

From boardrooms to water coolers, organizations across industries proudly tout their commitment to Agile principles and frameworks. However, for many companies, being "Agile" often masks a deeper reality: a lack of true Agile mindset and practices. Is your team pretending to be agile? How do you gain alignment?

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Agile Leadership SCRUM Sustainability 194

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Aiming toward Sustainable Pace. Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely." - The Agile Manifesto Principle. If you are an agile leader - do you know whether your teams are currently operating at a sustainable pace?

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Sustainability SCRUM Agile Software Development 160

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

There has been some backlash against Six Sigma over the recent years, some of which is warranted and will be discussed, but overall the process proves a valuable tool in reducing defects in product manufacturing, especially when paired with Agile thinking, lean manufacturing and capable project management tools. Six Sigma and Agile.

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Lean Manufacturing Transportation Sustainability 417

Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2025

TL; DR: Optimus Alpha Creates a Useful Retrospective Format In this experiment, OpenAIs new stealthy LLM Optimus Alpha demonstrated exceptional performance in team data analysis, quickly identifying key patterns in complex agile metrics and synthesizing insights about technical debt, value creation, and team dynamics. Scrum Master (you!)

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 122

Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2024

By finding a balance, we can avoid the pitfalls of burnout and foster a more sustainable work environment. As we embrace the Agile mindset, let's remember that, like a well-balanced meal, effective Sprint Planning is not about maxing out capacities but finding that sweet spot where productivity meets sustainability. ?

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Sustainability SCRUM Initiating Executing 184

Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. edition ! ?

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Agile Technical Review Software Engineering Sustainability 202

Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2024

In the world of Agile and Scrum, stakeholders play a critical role in the success of a product. A Stakeholder values quality and sustainability. However, their roles and responsibilities are often misunderstood, leading to confusion and inefficiencies. A Stakeholder is Not only focused on outputs.

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Sustainability SCRUM Agile 191

Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2024

Some teams even use their BAU workload as a reason that they can’t go agile? BAU activities means many things to many people, KTLO, Maintenance, Enablers, sustainment and DevOps. The “Build” part was “Agile”. With the project finished everything was now about support, sustain and maintain.

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Innovation Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 136

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Agile is an umbrella term encompassing a variety of frameworks and approaches to value delivery in complex environments. The word agile came into widespread use following the creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001. The Agile Manifesto includes four values and 12 principles that describe a better way to approach complex work.

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