ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The waterfall methodology is a process where project activities are broken down into linear phases. Commonly used in engineering and software development, it’s a more structured approach because progress falls in one direction, like a waterfall, from ideation to launch. Let’s take a look. What is Waterfall? What is Agile?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Kanban history has informed everything from manufacturing to software development. For those unsure what kanban is, we’ll first explain the kanban system and then go into kanban history from its development to its uses in manufacturing, project management and software development.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes. Poor requirements change process.

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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. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile. What Is the Scrum Methodology? Scrum Values.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 12, 2019

Responding and incorporating customer feedback into products and processes requires self-organizing teams that are constantly tweaking what they do to be more efficient, where they can change regularly to meet new needs that pop up daily. Agile is the overriding methodology and the agile process can be executed with a variety of frameworks.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 31, 2019

Either way, agile offers a fast and nimble way to work that first benefited software development before expanding its reach to almost every industry. The phrase agile software development was first used in 2001, but agile was in fact being applied to projects since the mid-1990s. This was the birth of the Agile Manifesto.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. Yes, Jira’s kanban view is one of its most popular features and software developers commonly use it for sprint planning. If you’re looking for software that offers more than two project management views, use ProjectManager.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I got introduced to formal project management processes through Rational Unified Process (RUP) in the year 2000. RUP was developed by Rational Corporation which was later acquired by IBM. While learning RUP, I learned about project management processes, project lifecycle, and phases. In figure 1.5 In figure 1.5

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Risk aversion should be the expected position, given the Standish Groups statistics showing the majority of IT projects are viewed as less than successful by their stakeholders.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

I am a member of some project management LinkedIn Groups that have had heated debates concerning whether an opportunity is a risk. Include your definitions and processes in your risk management plan. Then participants sort the opportunities into groups or categories. Each group is given a title.

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Agilemania

MARCH 30, 2021

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Risk categories allow you to group individual project risks for evaluating and responding to risks. Imagine a project manager who is managing a software development project. Check your organizational process assets to determine if your organization has a standard set of risk categories that might be applicable to your project.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

That means that project managers work in virtually all fields, from software development and IT to human resources, from advertising and marketing to construction, and everything in-between. Program managers specialize in managing a group of closely related projects that are part of a program. Manage risk tracking process.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 2, 2022

The exact project tasks required might depend on the outcome of the design phase, or may change once you’ve carried out customer focus groups, for example. The next step in the planning process is to create a project schedule for the first wave, in conjunction with the team. Helping stakeholders see the whole picture.

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Henny Portman

JANUARY 6, 2021

A few weeks ago, I received the latest report from the Standish Group – CHAOS 2020: Beyond Infinity – written by Jim Johnson. Every two years the Standish Group publish a new CHAOS Report. project-success-qrc-standish-group-chaos-report-2020 Download. The Epilogue takes a look at 60 years of software development.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 19, 2023

An Agile team is a cross-functional group of people that is self-contained to the point that the people in the group can deliver the product (or the next iteration of it) without needing to draw on skills outside the group. What is an Agile team? It’s almost easier to think of Agile teams by virtue of what they are not.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Quality control is more concerned with quality earlier in the project process. This provides a systematic measurement and comparison with a standard, along with a monitory of processes and a feedback loop to make sure no errors pass through production. Quality control, however, is primarily just focused on process output.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 24, 2020

Parabol also breaks the retrospective process down into bite-size pieces that encourage team safety and vulnerability. A great outcome a facilitator can encourage is for one or two people to draft up a new working agreement or change in process, to later be decided upon as a group.

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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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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2024

By Nagaraja Gundappa October 23, 2024 Now that PMI is aligning PMBoK to value delivery and relegated the old Knowledge Area – Process group structure to a non-PMBoK document, the question that arises is – if this old structure is still relevant or dead? The Itinerary The itinerary was as depicted in diagram 1.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 12, 2020

Perhaps the best practices, tools, production process, professionalism and organization of teamwork - everything that Scrum defines as "done", or definition of Done. The picture below is an example of user requirements and definition of done for a wedding agency, as well as an example of definition of done for software development.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

The concept of technical debt comes from software development where it refers to the costs of having to go back and resolve problems that arise because of an earlier decision to take the easy route, instead of the best one. Related: The Risk Management Process in Project Management. What Is Technical Debt?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 18, 2019

Jennifer offered these seven suggestions to help facilitate that process. Could be someone coming in new to your company, maybe someone new to your group, or even new to your project. Some people are naturals in such situations, but others might be less social and need an opening to feel that they’re part of the team.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2024

Consider a traditional organisation design where individuals are grouped based on their skills into specific functions, such as Sales, Marketing, Product, and R&D. Often, when work arrives at a function, that group is already engaged with other tasks, forcing the new work to wait. This leads to significant delays.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2023

ProjectManager has dozens of free project management templates for Excel and Word that IT managers need when working on web development, software development, mobile app development, network configuration and so much more. Our free GDPR compliance checklist template makes it easy to manage that process.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 30, 2020

ITIL follows a process that starts with identifying the problem, which has caused one or more incidents, but is not known why at the time. Types of Problem Management & Related Processes. Problem management can be broken down into two distinct groups. Problem management falls under the larger umbrella of ITIL processes.

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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. Applying this flow principle makes it an essential tool for managing workflow and maintaining a sustainable pace in software development.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I am a software developer and Scrum Teacher. I have been in software development for 23+ years and have worked on various technologies and have played the role of a developer, analyst, project manager, delivery manager, scrum master, product owner, and coach. Scrum is not a process, technique, or definitive method.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2019

The idea of a user story as it applies here comes from software development and product management. A user story is an informal description of one or more software features, written from the perspective of an end user in plain English. The top of the graph or map are headings under which big stories are grouped.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2021

Topic(s): Measure & Learn , People & Process. 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. We need evidence…. Audience: Product Owners , Leaders. The dark side!

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

This project management conference covers topics such as the project management framework and its terminology, process groups and the nine knowledge areas of the PMBOK. A software development conference with workshops on the theme of Our Digital Tomorrow. GOTO Chicago. April 27-29, Chicago, IL.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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. Even in institutions where they teach (software) development. It was a tough ride. This is a huge problem.

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Project Bliss

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And it can provide structure for discussions between the business and development teams. The process name of MoSCoW represents each of these four priority levels. For software development, ask if not having these features will impact the user experience. Can they influence decisions made during development?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

Finding this answer is a process and not a destination. The role of the Product Owner itself is making the hiring process difficult to handle. The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. What items need to be split?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or, you may conclude after your research — thus early in the assessment process (see below) — that the organization is not compatible with your expectations of a future employer or client. Source 3: Ask Peers for Help via Reddit, Hacker News, the Hands-on Agile Slack Community & LinkedIn Groups. Job advertisement. Job interview.

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