Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 12, 2020

I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. When I started working for White October we followed the conventional “scrum” format, where the team get together, share what’s new, what’s challenging and what’s happening, and everyone gives feedback and makes suggestions to unblock each other.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Elisa Cepale I facilitate daily standup meetings for our support team. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. In this article, I’ll look at 5 activities you can try in your daily team standup meeting. How does a standup meeting work?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. For this purpose it defines three roles, a scrum master, a product owner and a development team, made up of several team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Even serious developers like gamification! Our company is a part of Wisebits Group and develops an online entertainment streaming service. The organization consists of several software dev teams that develop different parts of our product. The latest online tool we used with the teams is Chpokify.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2022

Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. If you did the due diligence beforehand, then you can trust them to do the work. Agile software can give your team the tools to manage their work effectively, without comprising data and proper tracking.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 13, 2020

The team is self-directed and works as they see fit to meet the goals of the product owner. In order to provide some regularity and minimize the need for meetings, scrum is broken down into events. A sprint is an iteration in the development cycle of a project. There will be daily scrum meetings. What Is a Sprint?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2020

It often leads to lots of meetings filling our calendars and little time to “do real work.” Those meetings aren’t working sessions that are moving us forward and creating new insights as a team; instead they feel like a waste of time. This problem shows up in Scrum Teams, and it shows up well beyond Scrum Teams.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The first article of this series will address the Scrum Master engagement with the Development Team. Scrum Master Engagement with the Development Team. Following this layout, there are three main scenarios for the Scrum Master’s support of the team: The Co-located, Stable Scrum Team Scenario.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Discovering the recipe for team agility. About three years ago, together with several colleagues at Worldline and Atos, I worked on an open-source DevOps maturity assessment tool (you can find it on GitHub here or see it in action here ). The 5-minute agility self-assessment questionnaire.

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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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Similar to the waterfall methodology , the phase-gate process is a linear project management concept punctuated by stages of development followed by benchmarks for assessment. Stakeholders will gather into breakout sessions and participate in group brainstorming meetings. Phase 3: Development.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

My experience was mostly in using Scrum in software development teams and organizations, not in battery development where molecular formulas replace lines of code and anodes and cathodes are some of the artifacts. I admit that I seriously doubted about accepting the challenge.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Your project budget will be reviewed and revived throughout the project, hopefully with the help of a project budgeting software. To meet all the financial needs of your project, a project budget must be created thoroughly, not missing any aspect that requires funding. But it’s not a static document. Why You Need a Project Budget.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

List out the deliverables your team members need to produce in order to meet business objectives. For example, it’s in this section that you will list out, “the front-end development team will be available during this project time period”, or, “the customer support team will receive new product training by x time.”

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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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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Stage Gate process is a project management methodology that breaks projects down into a series of defined stages and gates, each used to manage, validate, and control a project as it develops. The gate at the end of each stage is used as a review point to check if the project is still on track before proceeding to the next stage.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 30, 2020

A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum. When I started out as Scrum Master, I didn’t attach much importance to this meeting. Therefore, during the first three years in this role, all my sprint reviews were limited to showing the results to the Product Owner.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

In this publication nearly eight years ago, Scott Abel defined the role of a content strategist as “concerned with the actions, resources, costs, opportunities, threats, and timetables associated with producing content” that meet an organization’s business goals and support its overall vision.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 17, 2022

As project managers, it’s important that we know how to best support our development teams (and vice versa), especially in Agile environments. A lot of the points below relate to teams in Agile environments , but can apply to any type of project team. Elisa Cepale. Secret #4: Facilitate prioritization.

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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. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients. This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale. Elisa Cepale.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. The PMs are seeing late deliveries and bugs that suggest the devs just aren’t capable enough. This can be true even if those failures had nothing to do with the current team.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Optimise the value of the work the Development Team perform Talk with customers. Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Scrum Team will work on next. Ensure the Development Team understands items in the Product Backlog to the level needed. The Development Team.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

I’ve found this can become a problem for Scrum teams who value and apply a Definition of ‘Done’ in their teams. . According to the Scrum Guide, the Definition of ‘Done’ “is used to assess when work is complete on the product Increment.”. It either meets the sprint goal or is deemed important by the development team.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2020

While nothing replaces face-to-face dialogue, there are ways to resolve these inherent challenges when managing remote teams: 1. Having either daily standup meetings or, for deeper discussions, a whiteboard session is a great way to communicate, get feedback and see one another’s faces. In Review: 3 New Tips for Managing Remote Teams.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

They work with development teams to track progress and identify potential risks, as well as liaise with other departments such as QA, ops teams, service management, and support. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 5, 2024

Reporting and analytics A robust capacity planning tool should generate reports and dashboards with insights into resource availability and capacity, allocation, and utilization, which will help managers track resource performance and assess the efficiency of project work. This will ensure more simple and effective resource capacity planning.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2021

As such the Scrum Framework has a number of meetings that happen throughout the Sprint. These are the Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and the Sprint Retrospective. People new to Scrum tend to worry that with so many scheduled conversations that they or Scrum Team will suffer death by meeting! Let me know.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2024

Make process policies explicit and share them with your team, preferably during meetings when you can address their questions, comments or concerns. Have feedback loops, such as review stages, to deliver project deliverables that meet the standards. The kanban board is one way to keep track of a team’s workflow.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 20, 2022

The architectural design process is how a construction project is developed and analyzed in set stages. This process is usually broken down into seven phases to provide order to the project by identifying periods of review, creating a structured release of design information and determining the natural stages of invoicing.

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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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Because the release plan moves forward in phases, there is always a period to reassess and adjust the plan to meet the needs of the product. Release planning lets software development teams plan better, direct their efforts more effectively and release projects incrementally, which helps the customer experience. Learn More!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Here are some examples: If you are hosting a meeting, you have to have the meeting before you can send out the minutes. Sending out the minutes has a dependency on having the meeting. You have to develop the software within brand guidelines. The brand guidelines are a constraint on the creativity of the development team.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

An excellent suggestion on the part of your candidate would be for the Scrum Team to participate in gathering qualitative signals by taking part in user interviews. Please note: Normally, the Product Owner would provide this information during Sprint Reviews or the refinement process. Question 19: Assessing the Value of a User Story.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

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. The Product Owner should develop an inspiring vision and a plan to make it happen.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Within Scrum teams, the role of a Product Owner is pivotal. The Product Owner is the bridge between the stakeholders and the development team, responsible for maximizing the value of the product. ROI Assessment Evaluating the return on investment for each product feature is a critical aspect of backlog prioritization.

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