ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When you have a long-term project that needs to be evaluated regularly, and you’re dealing with numerous stakeholders, the phase-gate process could be an ideal fit for your organization. What is the Phase-Gate Process? It is typically used for new product developments, software/app/website launches and business-wide changes.

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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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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If you recognize these challenges, a structured project methodology, such as the Stage Gate process, can help you overcome them, by bringing control and consistency to your deliveries. The Stage Gate process breaks projects down into distinct stages and gates. Jump to a section: What is the Stage Gate process in project management?

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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 7, 2022

Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. Our kanban boards are great for agile teams. Managers get visibility into their process so they can reallocate resources as needed to avoid bottlenecks. Agile Processes Promote Sustainable Development.

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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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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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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. At White October we continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients.

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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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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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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

MAY 1, 2024

Kanban is a very versatile methodology that can be used by any team that needs to manage workflows , business processes or projects. For example, the kanban methodology can be implemented in manufacturing, software development, product management, construction and many other industries. What Are the Benefits of Kanban?

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Software Review Manufacturing Lean Development Team Review 459

Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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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 continuously reflect on our process to refine the way we work. At White October, we encourage direct communication between the development team and clients.

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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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Accidental PM

MARCH 30, 2025

The core principles of Agile are outlined in the Agile Manifesto , which emphasizes the importance of individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working solutions over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan.

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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. Why do you need capacity planning software?

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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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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Product management is a way to organize the development, position and pricing of your product. It helps you manage every step of the process that sees your product go from concept to market. For those of you managing product development projects, here are some of the product management templates we offer for free download on our site.

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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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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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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Instead of planning everything at once, teams can instead break down their process into staged product releases, hence the name. In software development, things rarely play out exactly as planned. Release planning is a great way for scrum teams to plan their sprints when working in product development. Learn More!

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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 should also have a compelling description of the product and how it meets customer needs. It tells a story and makes people think, as well as exciting them about the process of making the product.

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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. Code Complete.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Also, these tools simplify the capacity planning process, increase its effectiveness, and optimize resource utilization. Capacity planning tools optimize the capacity planning process, reducing the risks of last-minute hiring decisions and preventing managers from additional expenditures.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

Often, these organizations were once created to train farm boys into assembly-line workers within a standardized industrial process churning out standardized products in the name of output optimization. Any of the examples will impede the team’s productivity and might endanger the Sprint goal. The Daily Scrum.

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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. These artifacts drive the development process and help in making informed decisions about what to build next.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Scrum, an agile framework for small teams, especially harnesses the benefits of retrospection. This dynamic environment requires daily meetings, called daily Scrums , where team members can collect themselves and ensure that everyone is working together towards the customer’s current needs.

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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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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 8, 2020

Using the budgeting process as a Stage-Gate® to exercise control through the back door : The budgeting process is hard to align with agile requirements like the longevity of teams. Hence, the actual process will have to change over time. Respect needs to be earned; managers do not get by rank.

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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. Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2020

A parallel team comes from the same organization, and is tasked to develop recommendations on a process or system. Product Development Teams. A product development team is a group that is brought together because of their expertise at accomplishing a specific goal. Action Teams.

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