Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

With over 15 years of knitting experience, she also dyes yarn sustainably and is a novice weaver. For sustainable change, prioritize people by celebrating wins, showing appreciation, and using storytelling. Athena finds joy in hiking and balances her life as a dedicated dog mom and foster dog mom with a passion for fiber arts.

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PMO Technical Review Lean PMI 103

Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Here’s a simple exercise I suggest you try. Starting, Sustaining, and Recovering Projects. You can tell your team members what to do every day, but until they understand why, your team members will lack motivation. Fuel your project team with clarity on why the project is being undertaken. You may be shocked at the different responses.

Sustainability 255

Sustainability Initiating Closing Risk Management 255

NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Encouraging flexible schedules, promoting downtime, and discouraging after-hours communication can create a healthier, more sustainable work environment. Focus on sustainable work habits rather than long hours. Implement self-care routines outside of work, such as hobbies, exercise, and spending time with loved ones.

Sustainability 89

Sustainability Energy Healthcare Innovation 89

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We all know that developing ourselves intellectually requires sustained dedicated effort toward continual learning. We also know that keeping ourselves physically fit requires sustained dedicated effort toward healthy activities like proper nutrition, exercise, and active lifestyles. Photo by Chanan Greenblatt on Unsplash.

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Infrastructure Sustainability Budget Innovation 38

Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2025

A common misconception is that boosting morale requires organizing after-work activities, like happy hours or team-building exercises. By focusing on the factors that genuinely influence moraleclear goals, collaboration, and empowermentthe Scrum Master can create a more sustainable and productive environment for the team.

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SCRUM Sustainability Influencer Leadership 192

Scrum.org

AUGUST 6, 2020

How does Scrum framework help us develop and sustainable deliver complex products? The rules, roles, and principles of Scrum are leveraged during the exercises. My reason is that the PSF is broad and covers all areas of scrum, and obviously has a lot of fun exercises. What is complexity? What is empiricism?

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SCRUM Certification Sustainability Agile 183

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

For this to be effect, those goals must be clear, reachable and sustainable. Carry out scenario analyses and pre-mortem exercises, to ensure your decision-makers can assess the potential impacts of their decisions. Only by knowing this can project governance know the goals that they will task the project manager with achieving.

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Governance Government PMI Defining 397

Scrum.org

JULY 15, 2019

I designed the workshop as an analog experience: no electronic devices were needed, just paper, stickies, and markers — a 32-pages workbook provided to each attendee all information for the exercises. It turned out that we had to skip more LS microstructure than the two anticipated, and that we could only deliver on one of the two exercises.

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SCRUM 2019 Transportation Engineering 166

Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2022

Interacting comes in many different forms, from exercising control to pursuing goals (probably also personal agendas) to being kept in the loop. Invite users to collaborative exercises, for example, user story mapping, etc. Align with them on roadmaps, Product Goals, and other near- and mid-term planning exercises.

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Governance Government SCRUM Influencer 232

Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

Mike Cohn describes a high-performing team as one that “sustainably exceeds expectations in achieving clear goals. You feel your Product Owner understands and honors the concepts of sustainable pace, the importance of setting the vision and Product Goal, and the radical collaboration that Scrum encourages.

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SCRUM Technical Review Sustainability Agile 172

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. Exercise Empirical Process Control : In your Retrospectives, identify instances where the feature factory mindset prevailed.

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Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 213

Scrum.org

JULY 7, 2020

The idea has been around for several years: design the teams according to the product requirements and give them autonomy to create the best possible solution from both a value proposition and an organizational sustainability perspective. Brooks’s Law. Eli Goldratt: “ Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave.

Technical Review 183

Technical Review Agile Software Review Software Engineering 183

Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

The idea has been around for several years: design the teams according to the product requirements and give them autonomy to create the best possible solution from both a value proposition and an organizational sustainability perspective. Eli Goldratt: “ Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave.

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Agile Technical Review Software Engineering Sustainability 202

Scrum.org

JUNE 19, 2023

To truly foster a culture of continuous improvement, Scrum Masters must recognize that Retrospectives should not be treated as routine exercises but rather as opportunities to ignite the team's creativity. This exercise pushes teams to envision extreme scenarios and consider the potential negative outcomes.

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Innovation SCRUM Agile Sustainability 214

Scrum.org

MAY 18, 2020

The most popular practice so far is absolute transparency , practiced by 32 percent, following by sustainable work pace, visualize progress, everyone’s accessible for everyone, ‘teamwork’ over ‘individual work,’ and (remote) working agreements which are all in the range of 17 to 21 percent.

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Agile 2020 Sustainability Governance 185

Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2024

Attending these reviews isn’t just a box-checking exercise. And in doing so, you’re not just keeping the agile spark alive; you’re turning it into a sustainable fire that can drive your company to new heights. Attend and Revitalize Sprint Reviews It’s time to zoom in on sprint reviews. It’s about active participation and engagement.

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Agile Closing Sustainability Construction 195

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

It reflects a non-agile, opportunistic mindset that values instant gratification—more sales—over a sustainable product development strategy. They are also associated with their sustainability from a financial point of view. Usually, this kind of attitude is encouraged by the management in pursuit of meeting sales targets.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 253

Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

Jeff Patton presents a practical approach, guiding you through story lifecycles and offering exercises for quick understanding. It introduces a sustainable approach to product discovery, addressing the challenge of aligning customer value with business value.

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Sustainability SCRUM Software Developers Software Development 172

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A directive telling approach might leave the client in awe of the consultant’s depth and breadth of knowledge; a coaching approach will leave behind a more capable, stronger, and resilient client who can implement a more sustainable change. The objective is to build sustainable change. What have you learned through those exercises?

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Sustainability Consulting Agile Technical Review 222

Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Agile processes promote sustainable development. Delivery in smaller releases is a much more sustainable approach. . . Revisiting the manifesto regularly is a useful exercise for teams as an additional layer of accountability. This means that progress reports, while they have their place, are not an end in themselves.

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Agile Software Review Technical Review SCRUM 246

Scrum.org

AUGUST 1, 2022

We do not get paid to practice Scrum but solve our customers’ problems within the given constraints while contributing to the organization’s sustainability. Moreover, creating the Sprint Goal is a collaborative exercise of the complete Scrum team. For a Scrum team to be successful, it needs a Sprint Goal.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2022 SCRUM 2020 211

Productivity Land

JUNE 19, 2023

Unfortunately, this isn’t necessarily conducive to team morale or sustainable productivity. You need to implement strategies that sustainably improve your team’s performance while igniting an appetite for excellence, fostering harmonious collaboration , and improving key performance indicators with unprecedented speed.

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Sustainability Process 89

Scrum.org

MAY 19, 2023

They gain exposure to real-world examples, case studies, and practical exercises that enrich their knowledge and enhance their problem-solving skills. Embracing these practices allows organizations to unlock the full potential of Scrum and drive sustainable growth in today's dynamic business environment.

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SCRUM Agile Software Developers Software Development 195

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Secondly, as a rule of thumb, I would expect the Development Team to spend at least 20 % of their capacity on keeping technical debt at bay to ensure the path to a sustainable level of business agility. That should be a continuous exercise. How often are you refining the Product Backlog?

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SCRUM Estimate 2020 Agile 247

Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

So in March 2023, I embarked on a non-representative research exercise to learn how organizations misuse Jira from a team perspective as I wanted to understand Jira anti-patterns. After all, one purpose of any organization is to exercise resilience in the face of change.

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ChatGPT Technical Review 2023 SCRUM 227

The IIL Blog

APRIL 27, 2018

Tuckman model of forming-storming-norming-performing), they can benefit from a Simple Interactive Meaningful Practical Learning Exercise (SMILE). Sustaining motivation through the number of reported productive hours. Evolution of Learning Exercises for Collaboration. Types of Interactive Exercises. Video Simulations.

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2004 Software Review 2012 PMI 121

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Enhancing Scrum to consider these elements allows for a more holistic approach to solving customer problems sustainably. Example: Including stakeholders in Product Backlog management issues; for example, with User Story Mapping exercises.) Scalability Concerns : Scrum alone doesn’t offer guidance on operating at scale.

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SCRUM Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 192

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Agile processes promote sustainable development. Overloading the team in an attempt to compensate is not sustainable over time. The need to maintain a sustainable pace in lean practice can hardly be overemphasized. However, it’s the exercise itself which is important. This mapping is hardly an exact science.

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Lean Agile Sustainability 2001 178

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Risk Burndown Exercise. An exercise I often use to get this point across is to ask people in the room to draw a chart of the amount of risk/uncertainty in their projects from initiation all the way to the moment all risk/uncertainty has been exposed. Predictability might be a dangerous thing to wish for in this environment.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk SCRUM 2013 162

Planview

JULY 26, 2022

In business, dynamic planning is more complicated – but no less essential, especially in times of sustained economic uncertainty. We have all been taking a crash course in dynamic planning – being ready for, hypothetically, anything: Finding ways to minimize losses and maximize opportunities while moving forward into the unknown.

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Planning Initiating Lean Budget 146

Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 22, 2016

I made changes in my life that helped me create and sustain more energy. Here are the things I’ve found to be most helpful: Exercise daily. When I’m dragging or feeling down, one thing that can get me going again is exercise. Sometimes I don’t feel like walking, going for a run, or doing upper body exercises.

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Energy Leadership Sustainability 150

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Maurya envisioned iterating through multiple versions of a canvas as quickly as possible until a sustainable business model is found. Nevertheless, it can be an interesting exercise (hint: time is money and there are various types of waste an organization could reasonably hope to avoid).

Governance 165

Governance Government Lean Sustainability 165

NimbleWork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Whether it’s reflecting on what worked well, pinpointing areas for improvement, or recognizing elements to sustain, a predetermined structure acts as a roadmap, guiding the team through a comprehensive evaluation. Allocate specific time slots for each agenda item, fostering a structured approach to the meeting.

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Sustainability Cadence Logistics Construction 109

Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

These conversations guarantee the team can deliver customer value within the given constraints while contributing to the organization’s sustainability. While the Scrum Guide mentions several examples of this agile negotiation, many others derive from practicing agility in established organizations.

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SCRUM Agile Technical Review Software Review 207

Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2019

Think back to when you first learned a new game, new skill, new exercise, how to play an instrument, draw, paint, etc. The problem is: the old way of working is not sustainable. Tomorrow’s agility requires today’s patience to learn a new way of working. Learning new skills takes time. working in silos of specialization.

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Agile Leadership Sustainability Initiating 184

LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 3, 2022

We asked Project Manager Coach Susanne Madsen how to create a powerful and sustainable mission and vision statement to take us into the New Year. ” In order to get the most value from this exercise I suggest you combine the two into a vision and mission statement. What is a vision and mission statement?

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Defining Energy Sustainability Leadership 216

Alan Parker Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By linking ISO 27001 to key performance indicators and strategic business goals, you make the case that information security is not just a technical requirement but a key driver of business sustainability and market credibility.

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Leadership Certification Risk Management Sustainability 52