MPUG

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One might conclude that agile approaches to project management, such as Scrum, mean there is no need for gate reviews. We say the same thing if one adopts gate reviews for every product development project. Let’s explore a typical product development project’s phases, goals, and metrics reviewed at each gate.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team. This seventh article now looks into organizing a remote Sprint Review with a distributed team: How to practice the review with virtual Liberating Structures, including and giving a voice to team members, stakeholders, and customers.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

A sprint is an iteration in the development cycle of a project. The sprint is defined by a small amount of planned work that the team has to complete and ready for review. Teams work collaboratively to complete the sprint and have it ready for review. Once the sprint is finished, there’s a sprint review meeting.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 27, 2019

Scrum ceremonies are meetings that are unique to scrum teams. Scrum ceremonies ensure that everyone (the scrum master, product owner and development team) is in-sync. A sprint employs four different scrum ceremonies to ensure proper execution: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns. Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns. Are we still on the right track?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

For example, a user story might be written like this, “As a project manager, I want to print out my Gantt chart, so I can review it regularly on my office wall.” ” The role would be project manager, the feature capability would be printing, and the benefit would be reviewing the chart on the wall. Prioritization.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

According to the Scrum Guide, the Definition of ‘Done’ “is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment.”. Or should it be measured when the development hands off the PBI to another team/group? In my first scenario, we have a Scrum team that ships almost daily done PBIs into a production environment.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2020

The first, and perhaps the highest, is understanding what virtual teams are and why they’ve gained such popularity so quickly. What Is a Virtual Team? A virtual team is a group of workers who communicate and work together using digital tools. Product Development Teams. Innovative Atmosphere.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

We focused on learning how to work better together, balancing our efforts between personal skill development and team cohesion. The early days were about experimenting with new ways of working—finding out what worked in practice, even if it meant going against the grain of established processes.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

You’re not daydreaming or playing fantasy games, but in the process of making a real product. Once you have a draft, review it. It tells a story and makes people think, as well as exciting them about the process of making the product. Actionable & Relevant. Therefore, the product vision must be practical.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 22, 2019

If you’ve been asked to complete a business process map it may feel overwhelming. And k nowing how to create business process maps is useful in many situations. You’ll be able to provide a valuable skill for your team that can be used in many different situations. What is a Business Process Map? Click To Tweet.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

While they may appear similar at first glance, there are key differences in how each process should be approached – understanding these differences will help you make more informed decisions! Let’s explore both processes as well as their similarities and differences. What is problem solving? That does make it sound easy.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s nothing more than a waterfall process dressed-up as a pseudo-agile practice. If an organization is supposed to focus on delivering value to its customers, it is essential that any process involving ’requirements’ being handed down to its engineers by a project manager be abandoned. Question 12: PO Anti-Pattern.

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Project Bliss

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Tuckman model of team development describes the stages that groups go through as they mature. By moving from forming, storming, norming, and performing, your team will perform well and produce great work. This guide works even if you’re working with a virtual team. Learn how teams develop and change.

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Planio

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Every great piece of software starts with a plan and a clear process in place. Luckily, there are numerous software development processes you can choose from when you’re starting your next project. But which software development process is right for you? Software Development. The 7 stages of the SDLC.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 7, 2020

Do you frequently find yourself in Sprint Reviews that only consist of a PowerPoint presentation? Or bored out of your wits because it keeps turning into a huge group conversation where people talk over others or keep revisiting topics that have already been addressed? In this post, we share the design for a Sprint Review.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

I was working with various groups over the last year and noticed some commonalities in the problems they faced. I advise to start finding one person to be the single Product Owner for all teams. The other “fake PO’s” should be moved inside the development teams as subject matter experts so they can provide detailed requirements.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People can use other processes to manage their work toward the OKRs. . Teams/groups then come up with their OKRs. Teams/Groups share their intent with each other and with relevant leaders to help ensure alignment in an environment of empowerment/autonomy. . It is to provide alignment around where to aim.

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Scrum.org

MAY 4, 2020

We had a look at common remote agile anti-patterns; we analyzed remote Retrospectives, Sprint Plannings as well as remote Sprint Reviews based on Liberating Structures. This eighth article now looks into supporting a distributed Development Team organizing a remote Daily Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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MPUG

JULY 6, 2024

If it’s shared, the last column shows which Microsoft 365 Group it’s shared with. There are filters across the top for ‘Recent’, ‘Shared’, ‘Personal’, ‘Pinned’ and ‘My Teams’. Grouping by Finish Date calls out any tasks that are ‘Late’, due ‘Today’, ‘Next week’ or at a future date beyond that.

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Scrum.org

MAY 5, 2020

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, chances are that everyone in your organization is working from home. This includes your Product Owner and Development Team. Give the small group time to prepare their 2-minute lecture. Together, give each group their teaching moment. What does remote facilitation look like?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

Int his article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In our team, we valued the idea that everyone feels involved and informed, and their contribution is valuable, and the opportunity to re-group as a team once a day. So far so good, right? Not really.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Scrum Anti-Patterns: From Product Backlog to Sprint Review. I added new questions on Scrum anti-patterns, from the Product Backlog to the Sprint Planning to the Sprint Review, to provide more insight into the Scrum value creation process and the organization’s return on investment. Question 45: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 2, 2024

Many teams sometimes decompose units of value into these tasks and start considering these tasks as product backlog items. Different user groups may have different needs or problems and if they do, PBIs should be split with that in mind. Let’s discuss how we create small PBIs without compromising value.

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ProProfs Project Management

MARCH 18, 2020

Project Management is the art of coordinating resources and directing working groups to execute components of work so that each group delivers components that can be tied together into a wholesome deliverable (contracted scope of work) within schedule and budget. The processes in this phase are: . Develop Project Charter.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

As we will see below, current scientific models for team formation underscore the need for time and frequent interaction to allow teams to develop the tissue that makes them high-performing. But none of these models explicitly require teams to remain stable throughout their entire lifecycle.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A scrum master is a critical member of a scrum team, responsible for facilitating the process and ensuring the team follows scrum practices. A scrum master is a facilitator and coach for a scrum team. They are responsible for ensuring the team follows the scrum process and removing any obstacles that may impede progress.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2021

Topic(s): Measure & Learn , People & Process. If you take another look, as the Standish Group in Boston has, at the above traditional measures of success (used both by PMI and Prince2) you find that this measure equates to very little value to the customers. We need evidence…. Audience: Product Owners , Leaders. The dark side!

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A clean-sheet development opportunity with a smart team and engaged business group – what could go wrong? As it turns out, plenty due to my ill-advised approach. It was the early 90’s and we were trialling techniques that would later become the agile approach DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method).

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

To avoid duplication we have grouped some questions. . You can never build the perfect process and everything changes over time, so by focusing on delivering the value today you get an immediate return. Many of the core backbone processes of an agile organisation (e.g., This blog is our attempt to answer some of them.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I teach and coach teams and individuals on agile project management using agile methods, agile product development using Scrum and LeSS, and Agile Software Development using Scrum, XP, and DevOps. Hoping it made clear that I don’t teach a role-based curriculum and focus on processes, practices, and methods.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In our team, we valued the idea that everyone feels involved and informed, and their contribution is valuable, and the opportunity to re-group as a team once a day. These make the daily scrum fun! So far so good, right?

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

This attitude is precisely why the 47 Scrum Master Interview Guide exists: Prevent imposters from slipping through the hiring process and causing damage. The purpose of qualitative metrics is to gain insight into how one or more of an organization’s Scrum Teams are progressing with agile. Read more : Product Backlog Refinement.

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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. Choosing the Right Processes. They are: Professional IT solution.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 18, 2021

What team cognition looks like for Scrum teams, and what signs tell you whether it's there or not. What research in this area tells us about how you can design, support, and encourage teams to develop team cognition and become high-performing. Insight #2: It Takes Time To Develop Team Cognition.

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