Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2019

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. Here is what we learned from an invaluable brainstorming session with our Tech Lead. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 25, 2022

Agile project management came about as development teams worked towards getting products to the market faster. The waterfall methodology, which identifies a problem and then plans a solution, forces teams to stick to the requirements and scope of work that was defined at the beginning of the project. Sprint Review.

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nTask

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Let’s take a look at all these project management applications for Linux in detail, and find out how they can help the managers and the team members in their workdays. One of the best applications that you can use as a project manager or a project development team member is nTask. Key Features. Key Features. Flexible workflows.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Product Backlog Refinement And Estimation. The Product Owner for your Scrum Team frequently turns requirements documents received from stakeholders into tickets and asks you to estimate each. Please note: Normally, the Product Owner would provide this information during Sprint Reviews or the refinement process.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Figure: Diminishing returns from Agile Estimating – Estimation Approaches. Ultimately Software Development is a creative endeavour and has the same lack of predictability that painting a picture, writing a book or making a movie has. Sometimes they don’t know how to do stuff and have to have a go and see what they get.

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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

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. Review Ready. Peer reviews ought to be done.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Join more than 100 peers from May 27-29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a non-profit live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. The team addressing unplanned priority bugs. Has the level of technical debt increased or decreased during the last Sprint?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

Follow-up question : Why is it beneficial that the team adheres to the values and practices of Scrum? This can help improve the overall quality of the team's work and ensure that the team is meeting its goals. Question : Should a Scrum Master remove problems on behalf of the Scrum Team? Or is this terra incognita?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Product Backlog Refinement and Estimation. Keeping technical debt at bay. Read more: Technical Debt & Scrum: Who Is Responsible ?). Sprint Planning.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) workshop has a module that talks about the Definition of DONE (DoD) and Technical Debt. Although this may vary significantly for every Scrum Team, members must have a shared understanding of what it means for work to be completed and to ensure transparency. Test- Driven Development.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 28, 2019

The Stacey model summarizes in the groups the complexity drivers of a problem: requirements to achieve, technology to use and people involved in the product development or use. . The Stacey Matrix of development complexity . In the first case, estimating a roadmap to solve the whole problem may just not be possible.

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Scrum.org

JULY 29, 2019

Doesn't product quality interest the developers, as well as code health and the amount of technical debt hiding beneath the surface? Team health? Flow of work, from the time the team starts working on a Product Backlog item until your customer is using it? What about business value metrics, I ask? And that's important!

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Software Review 177

Planio

JUNE 8, 2022

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Goodhart’s law states that a metric ceases to be a useful metric once it becomes a target, for example, for a performance review, because participants figure out how to game the system. However, it turns into the opposite if unleashed upon a less experienced team for productivity reporting purposes by the management.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Refinement is not an explicit event in the Scrum Guide because it is something that can be different depending on the Product, Domain, or Technology. Ask the Developers to estimate the item, “Does this look like it can fit with many other friends into a single Sprint?”. How do you refine your backlog?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

First of all, let’s have a look at the current issue of the Scrum Guide on the Product Backlog: “Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items.

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Planio

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And whether you’re a designer, developer, team lead, or administrator, your job requires many of the same skills that separate the best project managers: organization, effective collaboration, and being goal-oriented. Step 7: Estimate time and effort for each task. Step 12: Plan your first sprint as a team.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2019

First of all, let’s have a look at the current issue of the Scrum Guide on the Product Backlog: “Product Backlog refinement is the act of adding detail, estimates, and order to items in the Product Backlog. This is an ongoing process in which the Product Owner and the Development Team collaborate on the details of Product Backlog items.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development team members) who work collaboratively to deliver value in an Agile project. Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the digital transformation market was estimated at a whopping $731.1 On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. Works with team members to assess and sign-off quality standards. ?️ How is it unique?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I am committed to staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices to continuously improve product strategy and drive business outcomes. Finally, I value collaboration and teamwork and believe in creating a supportive environment where the development team can thrive and achieve their best work.

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Scrum.org

JULY 10, 2018

Often I hear people say that Scrum does not take care of risk: there is no risk log, risk is not on the agenda of the Sprint Review or Retrospective as a standard agenda-item. The Development Teams need to be accountable for the quality of the product and how it's made. Technical risk - can it be made/build?

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Scoro

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Whether from technical challenges like an unexpected integration issue or slow turnarounds on necessary client feedback, these roadblocks cause your team to spend more time on the project beyond what was planned. While your team was able to deliver it within your expected timeframe, you still ran over budget.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

After focusing, delivering goes – as a shift towards creating customer-facing self-managing teams. And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Once the value is defined and the teams starting to learn and deliver, the change isn't done yet.

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Planio

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Sprints are the backbone of any good Agile development team. But maybe more than that, sprint planning aligns the development team with the product owner. Like any relationship, the one between you and your team requires communication and clarity. Pro Tip: Use “Story points” to properly estimate tasks.

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Binfire

APRIL 7, 2017

Until recently some academics and Project Management Institute (PMI) considered Agile method not a serious contender in project management due to the fact that is very hard to set a due date for project’s competition in Agile method. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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Planio

JANUARY 31, 2022

That’s why a product roadmap is the backbone of every great development team. Review and align your roadmap with other internal teams. Ask past users for reviews. OKRs are great for setting quarterly goals for your product roadmap and having a way to assess and judge their success. Increase repeat purchases.

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Binfire

AUGUST 27, 2017

Until recently some academics and Project Management Institute (PMI) considered Agile method, not a serious contender in project management due to the fact that is very hard to set a due date for project’s completion in the Agile method. Project Estimation. How do you come up with project estimation in Agile world?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Perhaps our most important "take-away" was that providing a range of estimates is not necessarily a matter of being vague. Indeed, the range from a Monte Carlo forecast can be more accurate and useful to a team in Sprint Planning than an absolute value, such as an average velocity or burn rate projection. days or less. That’s a 54.3%

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Planio

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Cost estimation: How much is it going to cost? So try to make sure you include all of the departments that are going to be impacted by this project, including project managers, developers, operations, security, and key stakeholders. The next step is to understand the technical requirements of this project. Requirements.

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Leading Answers

MAY 8, 2022

The organizations we see adopting it today are in the "Late Majority" and "Laggard" categories of Geoffrey Moore's Technology Adoption Life Cycle. Let's review some popular techniques often seen on Scrum teams. Transparency – All estimates and progress are discussed openly within the project team.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 10, 2019

If the product owner is dedicated to defining, prioritizing, and validating requirements, there isn’t much time to represent status to steering committees, PMOs, and IT status portfolio reviews. I’ve seen several projects struggle when the technical lead is expected to handle the project management tasks in addition to technical delivery.

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Project Pulse Journal

MAY 18, 2024

Imagine having powerful tools that can streamline your processes, enhance team communication, and provide real-time insights into project performance. The different PM technologies offer that, empowering you to manage projects better. What if you could leverage these technologies without being a technical expert?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But, finally, I would say that some agilists have no choice but to work in organisations that use SAFe due to lack of proper’ agile jobs. I have only had one customer that was more or less successful in implementing SAFe, but it was already practicing Scrum for more than five years in their separate development teams.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The style of project management The organization may have a preferred methodology or paradigm, and the project manager (along with their team) will also assess what is right for this project. Rapid changes in the market demand arising from social trends, competitor activities, or technical capability, for example.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

I had various conversations and workshops with the development teams and the leadership. For example there were IT chapter leads for specific technologies like Pega or Java. They did not promote mutli-skill growth of people, which is required for creating adaptive teams. Output driven development.

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