Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2025

Implementing Test-Driven Development (TDD) enhances readability, maintainability, and modularity. Even AI exhibits caution in refactoring without tests, mirroring human developer behaviour. Would it resemble code developed using TDD principles? TDD vs. AI: Is AI Truly Applying Test-Driven Development?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 9, 2025

TL;DR: The Alignment-to-Value Pipeline Effective product development requires both strategic alignment and healthy Product Backlog management. By implementing proper alignment tools, separating discovery from delivery, and maintaining appropriate backlog size (3-6 sprints), teams can build products that truly matter.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Henry Gantt was an American who worked as a mechanical engineer and management consultant. He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. It was an early attempt to merge the science of engineering processes with management.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive. Perhaps the best solution would be to develop hybrid work processes that allow for a variety of work styles. Every team needs a leader. No problem.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

They are the owner, who is the one commissioning the work and funds or finances it; the architect or engineer, who is responsible for the design of the project; and the general contractor, who is the person overseeing the day-to-day operations of the project as well as managing the subcontractors. Construction Contracts. Preconstrucion.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

Construction projects , as noted, are made of many distinct teams of contractors and subcontractors who are responsible for a specific piece of the larger whole. Project management software acts as the glue that holds the project together by managing tasks and balancing the team’s workload.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. These mockups can help further the design, materialize your product vision and get feedback from the engineering team. It’s through these exercises that design and engineering departments communicate and develop the idea into a working product.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 22, 2019

Famously, software engineer and author Tim Lister said that: “Risk management is how adults manage projects.” You’ll Get the Project Team You Deserve. Because the uncomfortable truth here is that you get the team that you deserve. This isn’t to say that, if you’re a good person, the universe will reward you with a good team.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Flashbacks This made me think about a certification class I taught some years back to a group of engineers moving to project management. One of the engineers had been getting many of the test questions incorrect, stating it was only semantics. The fact that this engineer was getting many incorrect answers is not unusual.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What exactly are the strengths and weaknesses of matrix organization s? engineering, marketing, finance, etc.) Having originated in the aerospace industry, matrix organizational structure is now typical for project-based companies in manufacturing, engineering, and A&D industries. Weak matrix organization.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Programming and feasibility are where the planning team defines the project’s objectives and goals. This information directs the design development, equipment and materials that will be used in construction. The project team starts preparing for work, setting up the job site so that it’s ready for construction.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2025

TL;DR: Stop Shipping Waste When product teams fail to establish stakeholder alignment and implement rigorous Product Backlog management, they get caught in an endless cycle of competing priorities, reactive delivery, and shipping waste. Wasted resources, frustrated teams, and missed business opportunities. The result? The result?

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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? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2019

This goes back to the first structured method for documenting process flow, the flow chart , which was introduced by engineer Frank Gilbreth in 1921. These tools were then picked up by industrial engineering, and in the early 1930s industrial engineer Allan H. Mogensen started training others in this method. Swimlane Diagram.

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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. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

College, a few odd jobs, and an internship later, she landed a job as a design engineer and got to work on some exciting and challenging projects. To do so, organisations need to invest special efforts and resources that will allow leaders to thrive, who in turn, operate based on how the teams that they lead thrive.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

As a manager, you risk losing your best people, undermining team morale, and jeopardizing organizational successwhile also boarding the same burnout express. Because of this confusion, managers often fail to notice the early warning signs or write these off as character flaws like poor time management or a lack of work ethic.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 31, 2020

Start learning how your new Scrum Team is currently delivering the product and get up to speed: from Product Backlog forensics to metrics to team challenges and technical debt. Join us for a free live-virtual meetup on Thursday, September 10, 2020: Hands-on Agile #26: Liberating Structures in Microsoft Teams?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Being able to act as a credible, trusted leader is dependent on you and your team making ethical choices about how you manage and lead the work. The plan can include the principles and guidelines you commit to sticking to as a team that values ethics in communications. Ethics Tip #6: Don’t Ask Your Team To Do Unpaid Work.

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Scrum.org

JULY 8, 2021

TL; DR: How to Win with Agile Resistant Teams w/ Scott Weiner — ACB21. In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Scott Weiner shares a case study on how to master an agile transition by creating agile resistant teams based on common sense, team autonomy, and the psychology of metrics. ??

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

Your Scrum team is consistently failing to meet commitments, and its velocity is volatile. How would you address this issue with the team? If a Scrum Team is exhibiting a volatile velocity, consistently failing to meet their forecasts, it suggests that velocity is being used as the prevalent metric for measuring that team’s progress.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. ProjectManager is award-winning software that’s the winner in a contest between Trello vs. It allows teams to manage different types of projects, workflows and task tracking. Here are some use cases.

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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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Scrum.org

JUNE 13, 2022

TL; DR: Scrum Developer Anti-Patterns. After covering the anti-patterns of the Scrum Master, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders, this article addresses Scrum Developer anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events and the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Developers in Scrum. Developer Anti-Patterns by Scrum Events.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 23, 2019

This tells your website development team that they need to investigate why consumers are bouncing—whether it be website load time, a non-responsive design, etc. Related: Search Engine Marketing Defined & Where SEO Fits In. Sometimes there are anomalies in the numbers that could be good or bad. Do Be Transparent.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Since it is part of the project plan, a quality management plan is developed during the planning phase of the project. It will guide the project manager as they lead the project, but will also be a key document used by the project team as they execute the project. List each team member’s responsibilities and qualifications.

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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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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Do your team members understand what you are saying? You start talking about project management and your team members hear the Charlie Brown "Wah, wah, wah." And if you want to connect with your teams, it's going to require change.painful change. "If Many employees who previously served on project teams have retired recently.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2020

I have listed the top 5 reasons that don’t allow the team to gain such productivity but feel free to suggest more. Scrum doesn’t help complete the product faster rather than how quickly a team can release a product. If you are an old establishment, bad news for you, you have to invest a lot to be like a startup.

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