Online PM Courses

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

And many project managers still think it is something that only applies to software development. Iterative and incremental software development methods go back as early as 1957 – and maybe earlier. Evolutionary project management and adaptive software development started in earnest in the early 1970s.

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Agile Prince2 PMI Software Developers 100

NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

From Software development to enterprise-level transformations, Agile has become the cornerstone of modern work, empowering teams to be flexible, iterative, and customer-focused. These innovators, coaches, and consultants are not just theoriststhey are practitioners making a measurable impact in the Agile and Kanban communities.

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Lean Influencer Technical Review 2025 105

Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2022

Once, we consulted a product company building a portal with an innovative fintech system that processed payments among hundreds of countries. Imagine a product group with six cross-functional teams, see figure 2. Figure 2 Product group optimized for adaptability. Such a product group has the conditions to be maximum Agile.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you take another look, as the Standish Group in Boston has, at the above traditional measures of success (used both by PMI and Prince2) you find that this measure equates to very little value to the customers. There are really three groups of metrics that make sense at the organisational level. Ability to Innovate Metrics.

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Innovation Consulting Prince2 Monitoring 242

Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology. Neuman also discusses the role of innovation in the Deployment Phase. Reduction of cost allows use everywhere.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 2001 2011 252

Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

ARTs typically consist of 50-125 people from all disciplines (software, hardware, firmware). They work as a virtual organization and plan, develop and implement all tasks together. For example, the design of a medical device, the development and deployment of a software application, or an e-commerce website.

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Lean Innovation Agile SCRUM 254

Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

The reasons for this are apparent, with software eating the world and the pace of innovation accelerating as the market-entry barriers of the technology sector are continuously lowered. Venture capital is also widely available, and startups are gaining an innovative advantage over established organizations.

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SCRUM Technical Review Engineering Lean 237

Scrum.org

JANUARY 28, 2024

TL; DR: Agile Laws in Software Development On many occasions, working with agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Curtis Carlson: “ In a world where so many people now have access to education and cheap tools of innovation.

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Agile Technical Review Software Engineering Sustainability 202

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Richard builds on the work of Jim and Michele McCarthy, Google, Bruce Tuckman, Gamasutra, Standish Group, Peter Drucker, and Melvin Conway. Richard created and teaches the course Agile Software Development at Harvard University, and he co-teaches the Spark! innovation fellowship at Boston University. ?

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SCRUM Agile Innovation Software Developers 225

Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

ARTs typically consist of 50-125 people from all disciplines (software, hardware, firmware). They work as a virtual organization and plan, develop and implement all tasks together. For example, the design of a medical device, the development and deployment of a software application, or an e-commerce website.

Lean 237

Lean Innovation Agile SCRUM 237

Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2023

Let's explore this topic in an agile software development context. You have developers who write code, testers who ensure quality, designers who create user interfaces, etc. In this context, a cross-functional team refers to a group of individuals with diverse skills and expertise necessary to complete a software project.

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TechEmpower - Project Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

The Consequences : Remember that probably about 10 % of the member of a social group are change agents, 5-10% are refuseniks pushing back, and 80 % typically comprise the silent majority joining when the dices have fallen. Concerning the Manifesto of Agile Software Development, we are back to square one.) Apparently, it is not.

SCRUM 221

SCRUM Agile Technical Review Software Review 221

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Over that quarter of a century, Scrum has gone from a niche method used by software developers to mainstream adoption with many millions of people using Scrum or at least parts of Scrum every day. Now Scrum is not just a smart way of delivering software, it is a fundamental part of any enterprise agility transformation. .

Technical Review 221

Technical Review Agile Software Review SCRUM 221

Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

So online tooling doesn’t guarantee productivity, let alone innovation or creativity. People and Interactions over tools and software. Management Innovation. Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. So if it’s not just tools… what is it?

Agile 202

Agile Technical Review Cadence Software Review 202

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Last week I was invited to give a lecture at the Free University of Amsterdam at the faculty for Digital Business Innovation. It confirmed my preconception that regular education struggles to keep up with developments in our field. Studying the software development industry through the lens of scientific papers is a history lesson.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile SCRUM 2012 201

Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2021

His innovations in industrial engineering, particularly in time and motion studies, paid off in dramatic improvements in productivity. The thinking goes like this: Ideas and innovation from your workers were a risk to your business and thus must be eliminated. Put people in competency based groups “. We need to remove thinking!

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2001 Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team 222

Taskque

AUGUST 13, 2018

Trust me, Entrepreneurs, business owners, and project owners cannot succeed without soliciting the help of a group(s) of people who have that experience and can guide them better. LinkedIn Groups are one of the most overlooked tools that the site has to offer. Here are 10 LinkedIn groups that all Entrepreneurs should consider joining.

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Prince2 Certification Finance PMO 73

Scrum.org

JUNE 22, 2019

These teams were mostly focused on software development. These organizations were able to attract the smartest developers and create products customers loved. Development Teams choose their own metrics to measure progress. For developers, this is often a nightmare. These metrics are focused on the outcome.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review 184

Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2024

Before Scrum & Agile became widespread, traditional approaches to software development utilised a predictive method. In self-managed teams, the members collaboratively make decisions, relying on the collective intelligence and expertise of the group.

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SCRUM Certification Agile Controlling 184

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. Nowadays, innovation is a team sport. Will that impede your work as a Product Owner?

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 253

Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.).

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Estimate Agile 253

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The ugly truth that we all must face is that, in complex environments like software development, healthcare, social work, product development, marketing, and more — we will never defeat uncertainty. It would be the end of learning and innovation. To be honest, we wouldn’t like what would happen if we did. Wrapping it up.

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Healthcare Web Development SCRUM Controlling 220

Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.).

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SCRUM Lean Technical Review Agile 244

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 26, 2021

However, in my experience (which has mainly been within the software development industry) many of these teams appear to be thought of and treated as a delivery capability. Communities of Practice”, where groups of functional specialists come together from across the teams to share experience is a common practice.

Technical Review 202

Technical Review Software Review Agile SCRUM 202

Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2020

. In our professional world of software development, it is very common someone asking “What is this Agile?” And I have heard people debating on the definition of Agile using heavy weight words like it’s a mindset, it’s a culture, way of leadership, methodology, manifesto, group of practices etc.

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Software Review SCRUM Agile Software Developers 164

Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

There may indeed be a bias towards stable teams in the research driving these models (Mortensen and Haas, 2018), but it is also possible that these models simply capture the social and cognitive reality of putting a group of people together into a team. We see cohesive groups everywhere in life. So … stable teams or fluid teams?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here’s an example: InfoQ — a community news site facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development — has a rigorous editorial process and focuses on delivering quality content to its audience. After having joined them, post your question(s), remembering to be compliant with the group rules.

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SCRUM Agile Engineering 2024 185

Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

The software had to be just good enough for the client to sign off on it, and since they were largely captive clients unable to look outside their keiretsu group for support, that was a very low bar indeed ". In other words, for most people in Japan, software development was and remained an exercise in box checking.

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Agile Software Engineering 169

LiquidPlanner

MARCH 14, 2022

Portfolio management is the practice, the science and the art of balancing investments and resources between a group of multiple projects. Regardless of size, there are several signals that might indicate the need for a PPM methodology or a specific PPM solution, such as: Your company is innovative and product focused.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Infrastructure 147

Scrum.org

JUNE 1, 2021

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.).

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Technical Review Software Review Planning SCRUM 218

Scrum.org

JULY 25, 2023

Scrum is applicable for software development only. These misconceptions underscore the importance of developing a comprehensive understanding of Agile and Scrum beyond superficial practices. No validation happens once an increment (product) is released to the market.

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SCRUM Agile Software Review 2001 172

Henny Portman

MARCH 14, 2025

He identified technological innovation as the main driver of this fluidity. The Standish Group has analyzed thousands of IT projects over the past 30 years, focusing on success and failure criteria. They are now pioneering Infinite Flow , a fluid, adaptive method for software development. The power of creative innovation.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 52

Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. Nowadays, innovation is a team sport. Will that impede your work as a Product Owner?

SCRUM 172

SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Agile 172

NimbleWork

MARCH 27, 2024

The Agile project management methodology encourages organizations to empower teams with clear responsibility and authority, so they can work together to autonomously develop ingenious and innovative solutions. Agile is different in the sense that responsibilities tend to overlap between team members.

Agile 119

Agile Influencer Leadership Government 119

Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We are expected to deliver a perfect engineering performance, but real innovation? The Minimum Viable Product concept , which we know from product development, meets precisely this challenge. In software development, for example, a Minimum Viable Product helps to minimize the number of feature requests to a feasible level.

Lean 130

Lean 2016 Agile Engineering 130

Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

From an online search and consulting with a group of Italian Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holders (>400), the research team built a list of around 90 emerging project management and collaborative tools. We are attracted to the latest cool application, with the potential to jeopardise the software environment.

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Software Review Software Technical Review PMI 150