Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2020

For much of the early 2000’s, large companies would shudder at the thought of operating a team in an agile way. Why is there so much software choice? The value derived from holding a retrospective is proportional to the talent of the facilitator, and the intimacy of the team. Here’s an example. Facilitation is the key.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The first paper was a 2012 study on the tensions with remote (off-shoring) teams (Ramesh et al Ambidexterity in Agile Development ISR2012). It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 28, 2016

Ever have this sinking feeling that a bad moon is arising on your project? Perhaps you and your team identified the following threat: “Someone may steal building materials during construction.” Some threats such as the theft example are easy to understand. Imagine that you are managing a software development project.

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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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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Project managers and teams focus on meeting the customer's needs.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. In my view: It could be a "layer of cake team", in that it cannot in and of itself delivery value without dependencies on other "layers" of the cake. Scrum Team members strive for net improvements. Self-managing.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines risk as "the possibility that something bad or unpleasant (such as injury or a loss) will happen." Here are some examples: Your software development project is behind schedule.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2020

An excruciatingly boring and time-wasting activity, where the whole team sits in one room, looking at one screen trying to plan a two-week Sprint. We were stuck in believing that a team is a team and it has to work TOGHETHER! Scrum does not allow sub-teams, that means everything has to be done together.

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Scrum.org

MAY 22, 2024

Estimates are notoriously bad. In the world of agile development, inaccurate estimates can lead to missed deadlines, blown budgets, and frustrated teams. Human biases, lack of historical data, and the complex nature of software development add layers of difficulty. But why is estimation so challenging?

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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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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s take a look at Jira, which says it helps teams to track, manage and automate their projects. Jira is software that was developed by Atlassian, an Australian-based company, to track bugs, issues and for general project management. Projects are how the software collects common issues. That’s a tall order.

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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. This can encourage salespeople to over-promise with inevitable expectation shortfalls.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Within a project, you create teams and workstreams. Workstreams are, as you would expect, buckets of tasks that relate to a particular activity or team. First, you have to invite your team members to join if they aren’t already set up in the system. You can have all your personal tasks in the software as well, which I love.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

For example, take scrum. Scrum is a great framework for helping teams work more productively together. In fact, the name comes from rugby and like it, scrum is a team sport. Teams learn through experience, reflective meetings and specific roles that add structure and manage work. One a framework and the other a system.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2022

During the first year of the pandemic, Scrum adoption more than doubled for software development teams. According to the 15th Annual State of Agile Report, the use of agile approaches for software development grew from 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. It is, in essence, the plan for what the Scrum Team will do next.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

Without one or the other, a business will struggle with weak performance. While seemingly impossible, there are principles that guide operational discipline so that a team can achieve these objectives. The methodology moved to the private sector in 1998 and has roots in the agile manifesto created by software developers.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

For years, I’ve fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for many different organizations and Scrum Teams. These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. However, over time more tangible examples popped up.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A traditional or Waterfall software development lifecycle includes a long and detailed planning period to define requirements before beginning development. It’s a different approach than a traditional software lifecycle, but it is necessary. But teams still need to estimate their work to forecast releases.

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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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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. Understanding these strengths allows the project team to target them in order to maximize the project's chances of success.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’ll explain in more detail what service request management is and what a service request is, including examples to make it clearer. IT Service Request Examples There are many examples of a service request and here are a few to further illustrate what a service request is. A team or department will review the request.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 13, 2020

This includes the project team, the tools they need, materials, facility and so on. That can mean a lot of headaches for project managers trying to balance their resources with the team’s capacity. What is Resource Management Software? The following are a handful of the best resource management software currently available.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For example, Salesforce doesn’t have a Gantt chart , which is an essential tool that visualizes project timelines, dependencies and critical path analysis. Task & Workflow Management: Helps ensure that each team member knows what they need to do and that the work is evenly distributed across the team.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master Theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Generally, insisting that the team achieve specific KPI, e. It is not a mere management role.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, the nature of the project or the planning also play a major role here. This type of risk is easier to control, since the project team can exert a direct influence on the project environment. External risks, on the other hand, originate outside the sphere of influence of the project team.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The professional services industry is large and to better understand it, we define the term and provide examples of professional services firms. Teams can execute work on kanban boards or task lists, while clients can stay informed on progress with the calendar view. Professional services apply to a wide range of industries.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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. The whole Scrum team creates a corresponding Sprint Goal. The whole Scrum team creates a corresponding Sprint Goal.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Iterative, incremental delivery is critical to a successful Agile team. Iterative means that a team delivers work frequently rather than all at once. Here are five examples that attempt to illustrate the concept of iterative, incremental delivery in a single image. No example is perfect. Is this a good example?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 7, 2022

Transparency provides visibility into processes for all involved and collaborative tools help teams work together. It centralizes communication and file storage while helping cross-functional teams understand what other teams are doing. There’s also a weakness in its reporting tools. Why Seek a Monday.com Alternative?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2020

Many teams have been adopting an iterative way to deliver new services, products, and complex projects. For example, you order furniture for your own design with clear requirements for materials, sizes and accessories. Let's look at an example: The structure of the Matrix: Vertically, we have requirements from the Product Backlog.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Iterative, incremental delivery is critical to a successful Agile team. Iterative means that a team delivers work frequently rather than all at once. Here are five examples that attempt to illustrate the concept of iterative, incremental delivery in a single image. No example is perfect. Is this a good example?

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Planio

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Rituals tie your team together, creating a shared purpose and a powerful culture. While everyone has their own routines to help them maximize productivity, team rituals create a sense of togetherness and motivation that takes performance to the next level. Jump to a section: What are team rituals? What are team rituals?

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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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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 3, 2022

Here some of the most popular polls from 2021: Can a Scrum team decide to skip the Retrospective ? Should managers attend team Retrospectives ? Scrum has proven time and again to be the most popular framework for software development. 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams. Would you recommend SAFe ?

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