Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2023

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. Problems facing failing programs Ward identified several problems faced by failing programs: Completing an accurate assessment of program problems is difficult for the program management team because they lack objectivity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

It’s really important to have a definition of what Red means, that everyone understands, before you have to use it. Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. Definition of a concept What exactly is a concept? Competencies for concept development In project management, we generally use a very structured approach to work through a plan according to clear specifications.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. In my view: It could be a "layer of cake team", in that it cannot in and of itself delivery value without dependencies on other "layers" of the cake. Scrum Team members strive for net improvements. Self-managing.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. Cost estimates. There are project controls professionals who are responsible to the project manager, but they touch the entire project team. It is in the estimation of costs and duration of the project where controls are essential.

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Scrum.org

MAY 29, 2023

I definitely see many good things happening within our community, and the teams and organizations we work with. In short, I’ll describe how poor facilitation of the Scrum events can cause Zombie Scrum. It might seem that a team has all the important elements of Scrum in place. What’s the dynamic within the team?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2020

Start learning how your new Scrum Team is currently delivering the product and get up to speed: from Product Backlog forensics to metrics to team challenges and technical debt. Join us for a free live-virtual meetup on Thursday, September 10, 2020: Hands-on Agile #26: Liberating Structures in Microsoft Teams?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, the definition of a risk is that it’s unexpected. Assign the risk to team members, add priority, level of risk, response, impact and more. Estimate Their Impact and Likelihood Once you have the list of risks, estimate the impact and likelihood of each. Use our risk cards to identify and track issues.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 26, 2021

Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. A construction budget is an estimate of the money required to take a construction project from initiation to closure, including all associated costs and expenses that are accrued during the building process.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines risk as "the possibility that something bad or unpleasant (such as injury or a loss) will happen." More modern definitions of risk include the possibilities of upside risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well. Bills to pay.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

In the first part of this blog series , I explained how to identify the organizational elements to include in your product definition. In this blog, I explain how you can refine your product definition to organize into effective cross-functional teams. That would mean that each team had the skills to cover the whole heat map.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

O verview of Agile Estimating. When more is known than unknown, use absolute estimating. A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. But teams still need to estimate their work to forecast releases.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. If you don’t talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

The following is a detailed outline to follow when developing your business case. Project Definition. Once you have all the tasks collected, estimate how long it will take to complete each one. Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed. Key Elements of a Business Case.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2020

Many teams have been adopting an iterative way to deliver new services, products, and complex projects. In Scrum, the iteration is called Sprint and the mandatory rule says that at the end of the Sprint there must be a done product increment in accordance with Definition of Done or simply DoD. Definition of Done. Complexity.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns. After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Developers in Scrum. Developer Anti-Patterns by Scrum Events.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Still, there are concrete steps you can take to develop a solid project schedule and ensure all aspects of your project are properly planned and accounted for. The best way around this is to involve the team in constructing the list of tasks. Then get the team together to add to it. Step 1: Write Down Your Tasks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2024

Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. Not talking about problems Surprises are bad. If you don't talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news. Project sponsors don't like bad news either.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2024

Scenario planning is a strategy used to consider possible future events for an organization or project to develop an effective and relevant long-term plan to respond positively to that change. That is easier said than done as there’s no definitive way to predict the future. They do this by predicting the weather.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

It's a key inspect and adapt opportunity for the Development Team, encouraging them check their progress towards the Sprint Goal and adjust their plan accordingly. It's also supposed to be an event for the Development Team and run by the Development Team but as we know in "the real world" it's not always implemented that way!

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

I believe I would be a good fit for the role because I have a strong understanding of Scrum and the Agile framework, and I am able to communicate and facilitate effectively with team members and stakeholders. Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

The purpose of the Sprint Planning is to align the Development Team and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. Basically, the Development Team and the Product Owner adjust the previously discussed scope of the upcoming Sprint to the available capacity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2021

IO is broader – how do you create a learning path for an organisation e.g. in a project where you are moving from waterfall to agile , you have to create new roles and definitions about responsibilities and new behavioral patterns. One thing you can do is to ask the project sponsor to make an introduction to you to the team.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

"The Development Team consists of professionals who do the work of delivering a potentially releasable Increment of "Done" product at the end of each Sprint." - The Scrum Guide. The Scrum Guide is markedly ambitious in the standard of professionalism it demands of a team. There can be many underlying causes.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. 19 Product Owner Interview Questions on the Product Backlog, Refinement, Forecasts, and Estimates. Does this update change previous estimations? Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.).

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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

So, if you have a team of qualified resource planners working for you, or if you are one yourself and you want to overcome the challenges that are related to resource planning, you need to have two elements embedded in your resource planning process. And it is closely linked to the development of schedules and cost plans.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

Scrum’s Sprint Planning aims to align the Developers and the Product Owner on what to build next, delivering the highest possible value to customers. First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. How this is done is at the sole discretion of the Developers.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 24, 2022

Manufacturing Cycle Definition. Once you’ve defined the requirements for the product and the plan that will get you there, you have the parameters to develop the industrial design. Related: Free Product Development Template. Trying to accurately estimate all of those variables isn’t feasible.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 12, 2024

I like the definition of risk management from the Sixth Edition, which defines it succinctly: Project risk management includes the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, response implementation and monitoring risk on a project. What is a risk and issue log?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Workplace bullying: a definition. The most obvious are impacts on project success, team performance, budgets and timelines. Not surprisingly for companies in the much larger United States, workplace bullying-related costs are estimated to be over $200 billion. Paul Pelletier. Shane Cowishlaw, writing on Stuff.co.nz

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Vague risk statements lead to poor risk response planning. When organizations or project teams fail to respond to significant risks (i.e., Risks by definition are uncertain events or conditions , not things that have already happened. Is the risk tied to a corporate, department, or team goal? Test Your Risk Statements.

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