Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Here are a few examples of how leaders can better support Agile teams. This empowerment fosters accountability, innovation, and a higher level of engagement. Leaders play a critical role in shaping and sustaining this culture, fostering an environment where team members feel psychologically safe, respected, and valued.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This trust enables open communication and risk-taking, essential components of innovative and efficient teams led by influential leaders. This commitment to ethics builds trust, enhances the organisation's reputation, and ensures long-term sustainability. This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

From hiring choices to project planning and team dynamics, these biases, deeply ingrained through culture, experience, and cognitive shortcuts, can impact fairness, efficiency, and innovation. This contributes to changing behaviour about posting documentation and ultimately helps us achieve sustainability goals by using less paper.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2025

Example: The type of company that springs to mind is Slack, an organization that transformed from an abandoned gaming studio into one of the best next-generation collaboration tools through iterative feedback supported by Agile principles. Encouraging diverse perspectives to help foster innovations.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 8, 2024

An effective Sprint Retrospective ensures the team remains cohesive and aligned, leading to sustainable development and innovation. For example, it’s the best place to inspect and improve your Definition of Done, if needed. It is a dedicated time for reflection, learning, and improvement.

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MPUG

AUGUST 13, 2024

In the dynamic world of engineering project management, cost improvement is not merely a necessity but the lifeblood of sustainable success. Your commitment ensures sustained cost improvement. To foster innovation, various ideas-generating techniques can be employed, each offering unique benefits.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 23, 2024

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the shift from intuition-based decision-making to innovation-driven leadership is not just beneficial—it's essential. Evidence-Based Leadership: Steering Toward Innovation EBM-based leadership takes this concept further by integrating evidence into the leadership ethos itself.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This trust enables open communication and risk-taking, essential components of innovative and efficient teams led by influential leaders. This commitment to ethics builds trust, enhances the organisation's reputation, and ensures long-term sustainability. This article was first published in the AskScrum.com newsletter.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

What Is Innovation Innovation refers to creating, developing, and implementing new ideas, products, services, or methods that bring something different and more effective into use. Innovation is necessary to adapt effectively; it enables us to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The only constant thing is change.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

For example, read on your commute or listen to an audiobook at the gym. Business Resilience is a longer read, but it’s a really interesting guide to how to make sustained progress at pace, whatever pace is appropriate to your organization. Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success is all about creating a sustainable culture.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 23, 2025

Innovative product teams might adopt a hybrid approach: using vibe coding for rapid prototyping and initial validation, then refactoring critical components with traditional coding practices once the direction is validated. Vibe coding, emphasizing immediate functionality over long-term sustainability, could create significant future costs.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

In our experience, executives are typically charged with improving predictability, quality, cost savings, product fit, early ROI, and innovation or some combination. For example, you could show them how minimizing the need to manage dependencies allows them lower costs by reducing or redeploying headcount. Trust isn’t built overnight.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The topics covered include sustaining change, change readiness, and there’s a section specifically on change in a project management setting. There are so many wonderful examples in it, and I sat reading in the Waitrose cafe with avocado on toast not noticing the time passing. This book is a good starting point.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Using the Internet as an example, he observed that in the 1990s, there were bold predictions that the Internet and the web would disrupt the retail, advertising, and media industries. PMOtto software [10] , for example, is a virtual project assistant able to update project status and KPIs and give recommendations by using historical data.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 31, 2024

Projects always have certain constraints – there may be an urgency to complete a project because of external market factors, for example; or there may have to be tightly controlled costs because of a fixed or limited budget. Going live with innovative new solutions? What is the Triple Constraint? Why are project constraints important?

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The waterfall method makes use of Gantt charts for planning and scheduling; an example is below. For example, the project management process groups describe the project life cycle while the 10 project management knowledge areas explain how to manage a project. Agile Methodology. How do you know if agile is for you?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

You can see the difficulty he created within Apple because all innovation, product development, and so forth stemmed from him rather than a culture of innovation that permeates throughout the organization. Innovation and Agile capabilities. They invented some of the most amazing products and ecosystems imaginable.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2025

Product management has always been about understanding customer needs, fostering innovation, and delivering value efficiently. The integration of AI tools across the product lifecycle presents unprecedented opportunities for increased efficiency, better decision-making, and faster innovation.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 18, 2019

The field is anything but static, with developments continuing to this day, including taking into consideration issues of sustainability, as well as other ethical concerns, and incorporating risk management. For example, a sales department might want more inventory on hand, but warehouse space is limited and can’t fulfill this need.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 30, 2024

They grow stronger and make your organization more resilient, more innovative, and more adaptable. Outcomes vs. Capabilities: A Practical Example Lets say your organization sets an outcome: Increase customer retention by 10% this year. Unlike outcomes, capabilities dont disappear once the quarter is over.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In the previous example, lets say that Jim is someone who likes to follow the rules and it really is bothering him that Bob is not doing so. Groupthink impeding experimentation and true innovation. It also helps them on an ongoing basis by providing the reinforcement required to sustain a behavioral change.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. Short-Term Focus : Driven by quarterly results or immediate performance metrics, these organizations push for quick deliveries, often at the expense of long-term value or sustainable development.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Nowadays, innovation is a team sport.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

TL; DR: Psychological Safety as a Competitive Edge Psychological safety isnt about fluffy nicenessit is the foundation of agile teams that innovate, adapt, and deliver. Think, for example, of Liberating Structures Conversation Caf.) Ritualize reflection: Take Retrospectives seriously to candidly reflect on whats working and whats not.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2025

What I learned from this book is The purpose (goal) of Lean is to get to the shortest sustainable lead time with quality and value. For example, when a team focuses a lot on test automation while they dont even have a refined Product Backlog is a clear case of suboptimization.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2024

The digital revolution, a globalized economy, and a shifting social paradigm demand a leadership approach that is both innovative and grounded in reality. By aligning strategies with concrete data, companies can achieve operational efficiencies, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive sustainable growth.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

One of the most exciting outcomes of Scrum being adopted by a team is innovation. Broadly that is described as innovation. Innovation around the team's working practices. Innovation in the product and in the case of the following interview, innovation in the broader context of climate change.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 21, 2024

This subtle change signals a seismic shift in mindset: from temporary initiatives to sustainable, evolving solutions. It requires not just a change in vocabulary but a cultural shift, a realignment of values towards long-term impact, customer satisfaction, and sustainable growth. Now, imagine a shift – a simple yet profound one.

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MPUG

AUGUST 4, 2024

Common stakeholder groups include: Employees Customers Shareholders Suppliers Community Government regulators To align stakeholder interests with the mission: Map stakeholder needs to mission statement components Identify areas of alignment and potential conflict Prioritize stakeholder needs based on mission alignment For example, if a mission statement (..)

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2025

Ideally, use real data for example, a product like Columinity. How can we find a good balance between innovation and maintenance? Discuss team dynamics, the activities you do as a team, the state of the product youre developing, how you collaborate with stakeholders, the support you receive from management, etc.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2020

First, an example of some excellent coaching. This may seem obvious, but I have lost count of the number of Agile Coaches that don’t know how many events there are in Scrum (as an example) or who don’t know the difference between Kanban and Scrum, and don’t get me started on what makes a useful Scrum Master…. What about DSDM?

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The Strategic Project Manager

JULY 15, 2024

However, to illustrate that it is not strictly a high tech application, let’s take a look at each by providing an example – specifically not high tech. Category Power Let’s consider an example of category power in the context of Whole Foods Market and the organic and natural foods market.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 31, 2025

They are individuals who act as actors who exert their agency to innovate and create sustainable, accepted change in the systems in which they operate (J.M. Lead by example Leading by example is widely accepted as a foundational principle of leadership. Vervoort, 2012).

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

However, in our rapidly evolving business landscape, sticking rigidly to traditional Scrum by the book could be a straightjacket stifling innovation, user focus, and adaptability. Enhancing Scrum to consider these elements allows for a more holistic approach to solving customer problems sustainably.

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Velociteach

MARCH 13, 2024

By their very nature, certain projects scream sustainability ! An example is the Ocean Cleanup Project , and the laudable work performed by these engineers, project managers, and world-changers who aim to remove plastic from our oceans. Sustainability in project management is no longer a choice but a necessity.

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. In this way, a holistic strategy can be developed that enables sustainable success. What is a SWOT analysis?

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are many types of roadmaps, including: - Now, Next, Later - Goal Oriented Product Roadmaps - Story Maps - Feature List Roadmaps - The Visual Product Roadmap For this example, we will stick to the "Now, Next, Later" one, as it is both easy to use, as well as easy on the eyes. What are we likely to work on in the next one or two Sprints?

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