Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. I’m seeing this more and more in project management books (I like to think I started a trend !) There is a logical flow to the book. I took loads when I was reading Scott Berkun’s Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management. It’s all brilliant.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a well-known practice for collaboration and teams use it to bridge the gap between product management and the software development team. It is also very popular among quality engineers to develop test automation frameworks. And Provide option to book flight.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. ” In particular, I’m thinking about the notion of keeping the software design clean at all times. ” The term “technical debt” isn’t just an excuse to type code as fast as possible and ignore design. .” Don’t Ask for Permission.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused. They drive meaningful change through their books, talks, social platforms, and real-world implementations. Founder of Scrum Inc.,

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I regularly see that software teams are expected to deliver new features faster, become more productive, and create amazing, intuitive and easy to use applications that are bug-free. And one of the areas is team agility ­– how does a team organise itself to frequently deliver small increments of software? This matches my experience.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as a training course, just as that little bit of extra comfort. It’s also useful to have books to carry around with you for reference when you can’t access your training materials. Alternatively, choose books that fill in your gaps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

As the team undergoes the work, the project manager can constantly review the schedule and add more detail to the next waves as this is known. 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. Then review the next wave.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

These rigid methodologies inevitably turn developers into mindless cogs in a corporate machinery—churning out more and more code—while ignoring the true potential of these knowledge workers. Waiting for the end of a sprint and a sprint review means waiting to ship a done project.” The statement is plain wrong.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2024

Book quality checks Now you know what project quality measures you are trying to hit, book some quality checks in. Also, if you have internal auditors or a Quality Assurance function, or someone in the PMO who can do an informal (or formal) project review, book that in as well. The options are: Once (i.e.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

By Luigi Morsa and Richard Maltzman Introduction In a former article on this Blog, we discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) software intersects with Project Management [1]. In this article, the aim is to discuss another interesting aspect of the current features of AI software, namely the possibility to contribute to Innovation.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

TL;DR; Without working software, you can’t build trust and you don’t know when you will get the next piece of working software. Once you accept this, and quality becomes non-negotiable, your Dev e lopers can focus on creating usable increments of working software. Professional Developers create working software.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 1, 2021

Unlike me, who went on maternity leave just before a two-year software development project went live (that was some handover). Book yourself out so that your diary is full and no one tries to book you to attend a sneaky meeting. Plan Your Return Block out the morning of your first morning back.

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Software Review Planning Risk Management Estimate 424

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

When trying to create an awesome product, often software teams focus a lot on the quality of the product. This may ensure that your developers are taking enough measures to create a good quality code but that might not necessarily mean that it is also a great quality product. Maybe or maybe not. What is Integrity? Not always.

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Technical Review Software Review SCRUM Lean 125

Leading Answers

JUNE 9, 2019

Now that a software “Done” Milestone is more like a Tombstone. If you work in an industry that has digital products and services then the Product Development trend will impact you. As software becomes more critical to business operations and product offerings we are seeing that software projects do not end. October 2018.

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Technical Review Software Review Lean 2018 113

Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Master Interview Questions on the Sprint Review. Scrum has repeatedly proven to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. It is the Sprint Review.

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Technical Review Software Review SCRUM Agile 222

Wrike

JULY 9, 2024

How can you ensure your software projects are delivered to brief and can adapt to unexpected challenges, user feedback, and market development? Project management systems for software development usually prioritize oversight, because that’s what managers need to lead projects effectively. The projects can be more complex.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Let’s say a software development team recognizes that they need to improve their code quality and to do this there are many options available.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 5, 2020

Given this, I felt it was somewhat timely when I was invited to review Jonathan Sapir’s new book, Thriving at the Edge of Chaos – Managing Projects as Complex Adaptive Systems. It does not apply to software development projects that use agile methodology. Simple rules. Encouraging emergence of solutions.

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Software Review Critical Chain Agile Software Development 194

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It , which came out in 2005. The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. A user story is an informal description of one or more software features, written from the perspective of an end user in plain English.

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Technical Review 2005 Software Review Development Team Review 386

NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Elizabeth is also a prolific author, having published seven books on project and change management. Her book, Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World , was shortlisted for the prestigious Management Book of the Year Award in 2014, further cementing her status as an influential voice in the field.

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Influencer 2025 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 111

ProjectManager.com

JUNE 28, 2018

Six Sigma has proven itself adept at working with collaborative teams since the year 2000 when it developed into Lean Six Sigma. This was first codified in the book Leaning into Six Sigma: The Path to Integration of Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma by Barbara Wheat, Chuck Mills and Mike Carnell. Lean Six Sigma. Six Sigma and Agile.

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Lean Manufacturing Transportation Sustainability 417

Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2024

A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively. Features of a capacity planning software Here are some key functionalities a robust capacity planning tool should possess. Why do you need capacity planning software?

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2024 Planning Development Team Review Consulting 101

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2019

In Review – How to Have Fun at Work While Staying Productive. Jennifer wrote a book about archetypes called Optimizing Your Thinking , in which she describes eight types of people. For instance, there was a software developer on my team, Wayne, and when he got stressed, he loved to play golf. It was just, literally, $1.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Thought-leaders often have a stake in promoting certain beliefs, so as to bring people to their classes, books, or products. There are dozens of high-quality academic works to draw from, there are dozens of academic journals dedicated to (agile) software development (ASD) and change management. All these sources offer evidence.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Technical Review 218

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 1, 2020

For example, I can’t do more than one book review for this blog at a time, so my workload would only show one at a time. Fortunately software tools make it a lot easier as it’s all automated for you. Find out more about Eylean, a Scrum and Kanban desktop software tool, on their website: [link]. How Progress Is Measured.

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Agile SCRUM Technical Review Software Review 326

Planio

JULY 22, 2020

A good project management book. the truth is that project management books are a more in-depth way to get inside the minds of the best managers out there. We combed through best-seller lists, spoke with veteran PMs, and read a ton to put together this list of the best project management books for upgrading your career in 2020.

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2020 Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 148

Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

This may be due to the project itself, which is becoming more complex because of the multitude of parameters it contains. A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. Entire books have been devoted to explaining this law. Projects are becoming increasingly complex.

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Underperforming Technical Team Aerospace Software Review Software Engineering 246

Scrum.org

JANUARY 7, 2020

“As an independent advisor, trainer, and coach, I help organizations with effectively deploying software development and management practices to deliver business value to customers. My strengths are continuous improvement, collaboration and communication, and professional development. What brought you to ‘agile?’.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 15, 2020

This post is an excerpt from the book that we’re writing, the ‘ Zombie Scrum Survival Guide ’. Let’s review for a second: Scrum works best when there’s a tight interaction between the Scrum Team and its stakeholders. In our upcoming book, we describe these in much more detail. Developers to focus on writing software only.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The project and portfolio management (PPM) software market is changing. In this article we look at emerging software in the PPM space and discuss how its selection and implementation needs to be done in line with an overarching digital strategy. A tiny snapshot of the analysis that the different software tools went through.

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In the realm of software development and project management, the allure of initiating numerous tasks in the quest for progress is a common pitfall. This constant shifting not only detracts from the quality of work but also leads to increased time spent on tasks due to the cognitive load involved in context switching.

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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. Your single best investment to improve your professional standing; order the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now! ? edition ! ?

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Machine Learning (ML): a subfield of AI that focuses on developing models that can “learn” from data patterns without human direction. Generative AI (Gen AI): a type of AI that can create new content such as images, audio, music, video, code, and text. View all of Cyndi’s books here. Scenario-Based Prompts.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI ChatGPT Software Review 167

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 6, 2021

The book contains ten sections and an epilogue: Section I: Factors of Success describes the three factors (good sponsor, good team and good place) the Standish Group has determined most seriously affect the outcome of a software project. The Epilogue takes a look at 60 years of software development.

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Digite

JANUARY 7, 2018

Irrespective of where you are in your Kanban journey, here is a comprehensive list of the top Kanban books that will help you with knowledge, insights and experience related to Kanban and ensures an empowered journey towards achieving your business goals. We highly recommend the following 10 books to all Kanban practitioners and students.

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Henny Portman

MARCH 14, 2025

After reading this book, youll start seeing fluidity everywhere. Through five chapters, the book paints a comprehensive picture of fluidity. They are now pioneering Infinite Flow , a fluid, adaptive method for software development. Slow decision-making id the root cause of software project poor performance.

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