Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. A risk breakdown structure is a tool for managing risks, which are any events that you have not planned for or expected. Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. Management.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2019

“How much detail do we need for our release plan?”. This is an important question to ask at the beginning of a software development project, or in the case of a long-standing product team, before the development of a major release of a system. In short, agilists aim for just enough planning.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

Planning for a project is essentially choosing one path forward to achieve your goals and objectives. There are many ways to proceed, but through research, experience and good judgement, the best route is picked when creating a project plan. But things don’t always work out as planned. What Is Technical Debt?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 2, 2024

Jira is project management software designed for agile software development teams. It has tools that allow you to plan sprints, track the completion of tasks, balance your team member’s workload and create product roadmaps. Additionally, you can attach files and share comments with your team.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

Featuring baselines, subsidiary plans, and other ancillary plans Do you know the 5Ps? Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? Focus on keeping the plans simple and practical.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Let's look at the cost of having no quality management plan. 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.

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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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 3, 2020

Does your team struggle to get items to Done? Do they experience a high amount of spill-over into the next cycle because they are waiting on another team or another person? Do items sit in a blocked state and age out while waiting on other teams or people to complete work? Dependencies are an epidemic in software development.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 24, 2020

In one of the companies over 10 years ago we called them Coffee Plannings that later became Coffin Plannings. 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. Of course I'm not advocating creating sturdy sub-teams.

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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. No requirements management plan. The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management.

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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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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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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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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ClickUp is a feature-rich, highly collaborative work management tool and Monday is a customizable work management tool designed to help teams work more efficiently by tracking projects and workflows. ClickUp vs. Monday both have weaknesses. ProjectManager is a better project and portfolio management software than Monday or ClickUp.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 22, 2019

You’ll Get the Project Team You Deserve. Because the uncomfortable truth here is that you get the team that you deserve. This isn’t to say that, if you’re a good person, the universe will reward you with a good team. And if you are bad, then the universe will punish you. So, how do you invest in your team?

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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. Duration of the iteration is one month or less and starts with short planning session. DoD Matrix at Sprint Planning. The cells at the intersection should have a specific task or tasks that you plan for the next Sprint.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 7, 2020

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. This gives teams the power to continually optimize its processes.

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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. Finally, without a coherent management plan, all operational excellence efforts are doomed to fail.

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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. This growth has seen a huge rise in agile tools.

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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.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 30, 2024

Certainly, Asana is simple to use and pleasing to the eyes, while ClickUp is similar to Asana, but with software development tools. When we’re done, you’ll be able to make an educated choice as to which is the right project management software for you. The software keeps them connected. What Is Asana? Who Uses Asana?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. Ron Jeffries has an article describing how fundamental refactoring is in the basic professional practice of a software developer. Software development techniques are not the responsibility of the project manager, customer, Product Owner, or any other non-technical stakeholder.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s not a bad practice, but why save it for once a year? There is no time like the present for looking backwards and planning forwards. A software development conference with workshops on the theme of Our Digital Tomorrow. The conference serves developers, team leads, architects and project managers.

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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. This article covers a new set of questions on Sprint Planning. The whole Scrum team creates a corresponding Sprint Goal.

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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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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

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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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." Include your definitions and processes in your risk management plan. Plan the interviews.

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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. The main emphasis of the project management body of knowledge is “control”, which typically means more or better planning. How flexible are they?

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Languages: I didn’t see any options to change the software language. Then the option of Starter plan (3 projects, currently $8 a user) or Business plan (25 projects, currently $25 per user with 5 viewers). Proggio is task and project management software that looks visually attractive and is fast to build out schedules.

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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. Examples of a Developer Culture.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The user is asking for something rather than an IT incident when something bad happens. IT is inundated with requests for hardware, software and more. Having this process well-established will help your IT team focus on my critical issues without sacrificing the customer experience. A team or department will review the request.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Everyone knows Jira as a task and project management tool that is popular with software developers. And that’s not without reason — the solution helps teams manage their daily work quite effectively. It helps teams organize and manage their tasks, workflows, and reports. This helps team members make better decisions.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

What was once dominated by Gantt charts and rigid planning techniques has evolved into a vibrant, adaptive discipline driving business success. These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world.

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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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