Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Creating an ecosystem where teams with the appropriate skills and resources are able to organize around a well-prioritized backlog to build working, tested product sounds simple but can quickly become mired in the nuances and details that manifest as all sorts of complexities in product development organizations.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2018

Do you, or the teams you work with, feel pressure from stakeholders to say “yes” to everything they ask for? I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders. I often see advice from coaches that teams should learn to say “no” to stakeholders.

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Planio

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ for companies and teams to be split across cities, countries, and even time zones. And while there’s no denying the many benefits of working remotely , mismatched schedules, repetitive communication, and out-of-sync teams don’t make the list. Poor people management: Embrace your team’s nuances.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. ' In deciding which feature to develop first, those with the highest economic value are selected. I do not think the teams have been weak at threat avoidance. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog?

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Digite

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). This team’s goal is to be fixing urgent bugs and when they aren’t (doesn’t happen that often :)) they should work on the product increment.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. I also believe that the scope of the area under review primarily focused on the team.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.”

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Planio

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Managing remote teams can feel a lot like playing chess. You can use all your experience and instincts to make the right moves and still have no idea if it made any impact (or even what your team is up to!). But they’re also the first things to get murky when your team goes remote. Now, that’s the bad news.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. We have these small teams working on troubled projects. Eventually, they landed on the ideas of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration and Deployment. But here we are.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

Malinawan, PMP Navigating the complexities of modern project management demands a sophisticated comprehension of the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain. This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external. What is the business context?

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Learn from the intriguing parallels between a jazz ensemble and an effective project team. Leonard demonstrates that music and project management share common principles as he offers a unique perspective on fostering a high-performing project team through the integration of music, productivity, workplace culture, and neuroscience.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

The top 3 format Free project status report template 11 steps to write a project status report your team will actually read 1. Build your report where your team works 2. Don’t be afraid of bad news 10. Primarily, your project loses visibility and coordination with team members and key stakeholders unsure of what’s happening.

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Digite

MARCH 2, 2018

My team is using Kanban board but they seem to prefer to collate a couple of tickets then ‘do a release’ as appose to releasing each ticket. This is absolutely true – and reflects the realities of the business of different organizations or teams – and their customers, both internal and external.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 24, 2025

By consolidating these details into a single template, marketing teams can ensure that every campaign is aligned with business objectives and executed consistently. It provides a repeatable structure that allows teams to scale their efforts while ensuring that each campaign is tailored to meet the specific needs of the target audience.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In 2013, Mike Cohn coined the term scrum smells to describe the signs that a scrum team is in trouble. What are the team dynamics? Outsourced Agile.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. In everyday terms, a project manager’s job is to oversee, coordinate, and lead their team from project kickoff to handoff. During project planning, the team gets into the details of their solution, understanding exactly how they will deliver on their promises.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. A project team might also go through an audit to ensure that there are no lapses in project management.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. Your agency utilization rate is typically tracked in your resource management software , where you also get a breakdown of billable hours. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient.

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content. Melanie here with team MPUG. For those of you who are PMPs, your activity code today is on the screen. Melanie: Hello.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With disengaged employees forming about 86% of the workforce, most teams would include a couple of unmotivated members. The common signs of an unengaged staff can reflect in many behaviors, such as: Lack of initiative Poor job performance is a clear sign of disengagement, but good performance can also be a red herring.

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Resource Guru

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Increase team knowledge and expertise Retaining clients for extended periods allows your team the opportunity to accumulate valuable, industry-specific knowledge and expertise. All too often, projects derail due to lack of project scope, or scope creep sneaks up out of nowhere, jeopardizing the client relationship.

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

When it comes to managing teams and projects effectively, managers can choose from many project management frameworks and methodologies. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Just trust the teams. How about we let the teams decide how to work? Executives aren’t solely focused on delivering software to customers. But that’s probably not true, right?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And then the process developed a point of view around kind of why companies were jacking it up. What do you organize those teams around?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD).

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

We’re not talking about creating agile projects or agile teams. And then the idea is I’ve got my marketing team on the call with me right now. Without overcoming this, it is hard to make a case for Agile teams. A lot of agile folks want to ignore dependencies and believe the team will self-organize.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And I was working at version one at the time and so like I’m like all in like, not like team level scrum. And that was about the time that I was starting to develop the teams backlogs, working testing software.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

TL; DR: Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Your Teams Back Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns! Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. However, once it moves from one backlog to the other, the Developers become responsible.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. Reviewing code by eyeballing it to ensure compliance with coding standards. Handling merges of code changes made by more than one person.

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