Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This time we take the perspective of the Development Team. Development Team – Why your Scrum Doesn’t work (2/3) (this post). The posts are based on my own experience when I practiced the roles of Development Team (member), Product Owner, and Scrum Master. Development Team.

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 13, 2024

It can also be used as a product roadmap to show product development teams the activities they need to execute from ideation to final launch. There are resource management features to balance workload, risk and issue tracking, dashboards and reports to monitor progress in real time, more than any mere template can do.

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2025

Learn why success likely requires a balanced approach: using vibe coding for rapid prototyping while maintaining rigorous standards for production code, with developers evolving from writers to architects and reviewers or auditors. This balanced approach could capture speed benefits while mitigating risks.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But there are additional project constraints that can crop up at any time, including risk, resources, organization, method, customers and more. It also documents and tracks phases to avoid scope creep , and assists with project closing, including an audit of deliverables and assessing the project outcome for success factors.

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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. It’s also during this phase that you determine risk factors. Phase 3: Development. What is the technical uncertainty/risk?

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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

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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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

When I started out in a Scrum Team we never really had a Sprint Goal, our focus tended to be looking at the items in the backlog then saying "Get that done and that one, if not all of them!" . One purpose of the Sprint Goal is to provide focus to the Development Team during the Sprint. Not a great place to be in!

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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. That's a risk right there!

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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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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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Scrum.org

JUNE 30, 2020

A Sprint Review is perhaps one of the most difficult elements in the product development with Scrum. Therefore, during the first three years in this role, all my sprint reviews were limited to showing the results to the Product Owner. Since then, the Sprint Review became something special to me. . Team Voice.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

This article explains what a risk-adjusted backlog is, why they are useful, how to create one and how teams work with them. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog? A risk-adjusted backlog is a backlog that contains activities relating to managing risk in addition to the usual features associated with delivering value.

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

I like to do assessments from time to time, beyond the regular meetings and updates. One assessment tool offered in the PMBOK involves some emotional intelligence and a scorecard: the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix. It provides on listing content and its use or location, providing “just the facts.”

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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. Too Generic.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 23, 2018

Full disclosure: I was not compensated for this review. This is a review of Genius Project 8.0.1 This is the attention to detail that is lacking in so many other software packages but is perhaps to be expected when the development team is based in Canada! Review of Genius Project’s Collaboration Features.

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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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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It includes a dependency log as well as ways to track risks, issues, actions and more. An example would be activities carried out by a third party that need to be reviewed by someone outside the project before you could carry on with whatever it is you are doing. You have to develop the software within brand guidelines.

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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. Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools 1.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Release planning lets software development teams plan better, direct their efforts more effectively and release projects incrementally, which helps the customer experience. Release planning is a great way for scrum teams to plan their sprints when working in product development. Learn More!

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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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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Software development and product development teams use a burn out chart as these fields tend to work in a more iterative, agile fashion. As you work on the project and fill in the burn up chart, you’ll be able to see how fast the scrum team is working. Review and Revise You’re not done yet.

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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

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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Risk Management Risk Agile Technical Review 98

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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Underperforming Technical Team Development Team Review Risk Management Risk 195

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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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. Conclusion.

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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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Project Bliss

JANUARY 30, 2022

Risk Management . Risk management includes identifying risks early in the process and addressing them before they cause problems. The project manager identifies potential risks at the beginning of the project. The project manager identifies potential risks at the beginning of the project. Team Building .

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Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Budget 296

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The immediate effect would be the acceleration of all work inside the WIP limit, and significant risk to the commitment made about the frozen work. Yes, you say that the original commitment took all the work into account so why is there a risk just due to changes in parallelism? This clearly is the risk-averse approach.

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Process Development Team Review SCRUM Lean 168

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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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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