Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. Ron Jeffries has an article describing how fundamental refactoring is in the basic professional practice of a software developer. Software development techniques are not the responsibility of the project manager, customer, Product Owner, or any other non-technical stakeholder.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Visual Project Management is a process that uses the visualization of the project delivery process to drive team behaviors: to collaborate and effectively manage projects to deliver on time. Rather than look at the project plan, look at what the team is doing. Without clear situational awareness, the team will flounder.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The best IT teams often operate efficiently in the background as they create and automate tasks for smooth business operations. By being aware of these important trends, IT project teams can find success regardless of their location, work style or role. Reduced visibility causes IT teams to struggle with how to prioritize projects.

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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. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players!

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 16, 2018

The premise of this book is that without skin in the game, asymmetries emerge which encourage unfairness, poor decision making and can contribute to a lack of understanding of realities. This principle can also be applied to some project teams. a bridge collapse) will result in punitive consequences to the engineers who were involved.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain. These rigid methodologies inevitably turn developers into mindless cogs in a corporate machinery—churning out more and more code—while ignoring the true potential of these knowledge workers.

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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. " Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. " This assumption can be especially applied to relying on project management software for support.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. His passion for digital transformation and his ability to coach professionals to lead teams make him a respected figure in the project management space.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sutherland and Ken Schwaber speak of “Velocity” and, to explain how Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle, they're known to say that a Scrum team increases their Velocity by reducing hand-offs, increasing quality, et cetera. In Product Development, the end state cannot be known in advance of starting. Hmm… how to explain…? Weird, right?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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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. Instead, the management ought to provide the teams with goals and guidance on how to achieve these, along with funding sufficient to meet the objectives.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

So you want a software engineering job at Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Netflix? It’s every software engineer’s dream to work with one of the top technical teams in the world. So how do you get a software engineering job at one of these companies? Self-taught vs. school: Do top tech teams really care?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As somebody hiring for a Scrum Team, you need to determine for yourself what works for your organization — which is a process, not a destination. A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 29, 2024

( Japanese version・日本語版 ) When picturing an effective and truly agile product development team, one often imagines a software development team, pushing some software to production every day, maybe multiple times a day, ala Amazon. But most teams that try it find out that the benefits exceed the costs.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. Given that software is eating the world , a seasoned Scrum Master is nowadays in high demand. More critical, however, is when the Scrum Master decides to keep the team in the dark about principles and practices to secure his or her job.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. The refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs that allow a Scrum Team to have a Sprint Planning at a moment’s notice.

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There is no doubt now that Agile is not just a buzzword, but a really working methodology that takes software development to the next level. . How does it differ from the traditional approach to product development? SDLC (software development life cycle) is a sequential approach to software development.

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Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2023

This article describes an A-type ecosystem for (software) product development, the prevalent dynamics in it, and the solutions to improve performance using Org Topologies™ mapping. At the A-level, as per the Org Topologies™ map, the work is done by the teams at the Feature level. These teams work with Scrum.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams? Is scaling always a bad idea? Of all the impediments that a team faces, which is the one to focus on first? So where do you find it?

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Finding engineers with a command of technology was easy. Unfortunately, the same PMs often were quite poor at writing reports. This appeased DoD.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2021

His innovations in industrial engineering, particularly in time and motion studies, paid off in dramatic improvements in productivity. The modern school system was developed during the industrial revolution to train factory workers. When you take away the essential elements of rewarding work, people become mindless automatons.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 28, 2022

This brainstorming element normally falls outside of the traditional project management role, but is more prevalent in software projects, when engineers have a free reign to come up with new ideas and then have to see them through. Virtual teams are very much the norm now.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

To help businesses, governments offer research and development tax credits special deductions for research and innovation to offset income tax liabilities. Thats the real challenge because many teams dont use time-tracking tools, keep poor project documentation, or just dont have an effective process for R&D reporting data collection.

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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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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In discussing the delivery capacity of a software development team, we can say “velocity” and everyone knows we mean the amount of work the team can complete, on average, in a given time interval , and we don’t mean, literally, va=v+v02. In software development, it’s only a metaphor.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Many teams are struggling with delivering modern software because they are not building with Test First Principals. A common form of Test First is Test Driven Development (TDD) and we can use it to meet more of our customer’s expectations, minimise our maintenance costs, and get fewer regressions and bugs in production.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 7, 2020

Projects can get delayed for many reasons from third party suppliers failing to deliver on time, to poor communication between project stakeholders sometimes the deliverables are simply not realistic within the project constraints. He says, “If it’s a short delay, you’ll likely have the same people on the project team when it resumes.

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Pawel Brodzinski

MARCH 6, 2025

We commit our engineers to spend their time on whatever our clients need them for, and in exchange, we receive an agreed-upon rate for each hour of that effort. We aspire our clients to be happy with the value we deliver for the price they pay for the whole team. Not a bad outcome for a flop, eh? What Is Value?

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Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2018

In the second post, we explored how to grow a strong team identity. Now we will explore the team process dimension. How do you work as a team to maximize the benefits of Scrum and agility? Recall that the Scrum Team defines their own process within the boundaries of the Scrum framework. How does your team build it?

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Wrike

MAY 27, 2023

Software development is a complex process that involves various phases, ranging from planning and design to implementation and testing. In this article, we’ll explore key software development methodologies, their benefits, drawbacks, and when they are ideal to use.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 10, 2018

There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. For instance, in product development, the mechanical engineers don’t need to sit in on schematic reviews with the electrical engineers or code reviews with the software developers. Imagine you’re running a sales team. The capabilities of each product.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 15, 2019

Similarly, a team should complete the work item or ticket or story (or whatever they call it) they’re working on before picking up the next one. Many software developers will tell you it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to get back into the zone, depending on the task.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 4, 2019

Newly trained Agilists typically are assigned to join an existing project team by means of an experiment. Most people in the team are unhappy and try to switch projects, but not the Scrum Master. Following initial experiments, organizations get started with a real Scrum team. Pre-Scrum waterfall . Starting with Early Scrum.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The questioner asked – “I have recently joined a company and to one of the projects that I’m engaged we have this Scrum team that has a mixed backlog (USs and Bugs). This team’s goal is to be fixing urgent bugs and when they aren’t (doesn’t happen that often :)) they should work on the product increment.

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Leading Agile

MAY 25, 2023

I invited them here to have a conversation with me because I was out with clients doing presale stuff and working with executives on the teams and the conversation around full stack teams, software craftsmanship, clean coding, different strategies for how to get developers engaged and involved was coming up.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’m not suggesting this degree of simplification is automatically or always a Bad Thing. It can become a Bad Thing when we lose sight of the larger context of our work. Software testers. Software developers/maintainers. It only becomes a Bad Thing when you assume you’ve finished. Only One Metric?

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Planio

JULY 27, 2021

As a project manager, it’s your job to help shield your team from the constant communication, notifications, and meeting requests that threaten their daily tasks (and sanity). The real risks of ‘always-on’ communication: distractions, burnout, and bad work. Most teams have been trained to value presence over productivity.

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