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. Secret #7: Motivate the team. Elisa Cepale.

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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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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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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each gate serves as a checkpoint to monitor project progress, mitigate risks, align stakeholders, and make key decisions before proceeding further. 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.

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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. Secret #7: Motivating the Team. This is a guest post from Elisa Cepale.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s an essential role… because without her, we risked putting any old thing live and ending up with software conflicts and no process to roll back changes if we messed up. The release manager at my last job worked closely with the development team to review what code changes would be coming. Coordination.

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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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Accidental PM

MARCH 30, 2025

Agile encourages continuous improvement through short development cycles, known as "iterations" or "sprints." Teams regularly review progress and adjust strategies based on stakeholder feedback. Industries where Agile thrives include software development, technology startups, marketing, and creative agencies.

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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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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. It includes a dependency log as well as ways to track risks, issues, actions and more. Get the project workbook I use on my projects.

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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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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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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Capacity planning software helps ensure resource availability for current and upcoming projects and reduces the risks of overload. These factors contribute to increasing team members’ productivity. What-if analysis Epicflow’s What-if analysis lets you simulate different scenarios and assess their impact on resource capacity.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For those of you managing product development projects, here are some of the product management templates we offer for free download on our site. Product Requirements Document Template In order for your product to achieve its objectives and meet the quality expectations of your end-users, there are many requirements that must be met.

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Project Bliss

JANUARY 30, 2022

Schedule Management / Meeting Customer Commitments and Deadlines. The project manager helps the team stay on track. She works with the team to build the project schedule and identify milestones and deliverables. The PM also manages interdependencies across teams so all project pieces come together as needed.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 27, 2020

It is planned by the Product Owner that the increment that will be inspected tomorrow will be released at the end of the Sprint Review. The Scrum Master says, "The team stays until 9:00 p.m. However, no alerts or corrective actions were raised within the development team or with the Product Owner during the Sprint.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2020

Conversation : Developers, exploring the card, communicate with the Product Owner, in order to gain knowledge about the business domain and to be able to offer valuable ideas for implementation. Scrum teams rarely do this and rely on Product Owner's opinion hence making him as bottleneck. How about stakeholders and customers?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 2, 2020

Any of the examples will impede the team’s productivity and might endanger the Sprint goal. The Scrum Master must prevent them from manifesting themselves: The Scrum Master has a laissez-faire policy as far as access to the Development team is concerned. Forecast imposed: The Sprint forecast is not a team-based decision.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Project Manager is typically concerned with day-to-day progress of the Development Team. They rarely (or never) miss a Daily Scrum, they’re involved during the Daily Scrum and it might just be that they’re asking individual team members what they’ve done, what they’re going to do and if there’s anything blocking them.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Scrum meeting is an essential part of every project’s management, especially one following Agile methodology. It’s considered a valuable source of getting real-time updates, information, and feedback from the development team. It also serves to help keep the field team aligned with the company’s goals and deadlines.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2023

From a bigger perspective these are all different risks. Technical risks or business risks or risks in general. What I’ve found interesting is how we deal with risks. But before, make sure to watch the video Awareness Are we aware of all potential risks that we face in our journey? Can the user use it?

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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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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And it is closely linked to the development of schedules and cost plans. The project managers, stakeholders, and the dev team have to jump over a lot of hoops and obstacles to meet the deadlines on time and making sure that the client deliverables are delivered on time. Resource risks are not assessed.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you’re tailoring your resume with project management skills , preparing for an interview, seeking to earn a certification , or simply seeking clarity in meetings, this list of top project management buzzwords should prove to be an invaluable tool. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g.,

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Alan Parker Blog

AUGUST 16, 2024

This section of Annex A addresses the risks associated with user endpoint devices, network security, software development, and information systems management, ensuring that organisations can effectively defend against ever-evolving cyber threats. Access to Source Code Purpose Source code is a critical asset in software development.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 11, 2021

They have to be able to create the right ideas for value and be expert at communicating those ideas to the Development Team. I cannot tell you how much you will improve by meeting other people on the same journey as you. Its tough right now to get out and meet people so do what you can virtually. Get meeting and learning.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2023

Whether it’s what desk to put in our new conservatory space (and I’ll tell you what we ended up deciding later), or who to invite to meetings, or managing to order everyone else’s food and then getting so overwhelmed with having made decisions all day for all the people that I couldn’t choose anything for myself.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? And do we want to let those risks run wild without any effort to contain them? So, yes, of course, we need risk management in agile projects.

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Project Bliss

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

These 4 stages in the framework are still widely used for understanding group development. Team leaders can use this framework to help teams mature for better performance. And because Agile teams are self-guiding teams, this model can be helpful for them, too. How to Use this Model for your Teams.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Additionally, I have a strong background in product discovery, which involves identifying customer needs, validating product ideas, and conducting experiments to inform product development decisions. Comment : Much better. Please note that ChatGPT considers your feedback as iteration on the original prompt. Comment : I would accept that one!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But many teams struggle with this rule. An increment is considered “Done” by the Development Team, but requires further testing and stabilization in the next Sprint. Or work is considered “Done” by the Development Team, but the install package still needs to be created. It is tempting to fall into “shades of Done”.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 12, 2020

The Product Owner also shouldn’t track and measure team progress. And the Product Owner shouldn’t manage people and resources or Development Team capacity for example. A Product Owner cares that a team has a velocity, yet he doesn’t care about the actual number or about “optimizing” it. Being a Subject Matter Expert.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 5, 2022

Product backlog refinement is the process by which the scrum team keeps its backlog in good order. Near the end of a sprint, the scrum team will meet and look over their backlog to make sure it’s ready for the upcoming sprint. The scrum team will have time to ask questions that would be normal for any sprint planning.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

What has always struck me in this discussion is the fact that Scrum is a tool useful to accomplish one primary task: delivering value to customers of emergent products in complex environments while mitigating an organization’s exposure to risk at the same time. Or the Development Team is continuously delivering Increments during the Sprint.

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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. When a weak Development Team meets a commanding Product Owner, focusing on shipping new features, the team may end up as a feature factory, churning out new code while neglecting the technical foundation.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

In this phase, analysts determine problems, identify business needs, elicit requirements, and manage stakeholders to meet business and project objectives. I still remember my early days of software developer career, where we developers analyzed requirements and managed stakeholder’s expectations. Why a business analyst?

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