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

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality.

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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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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

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. That doesn’t mean that technical debt is all bad. What Is Technical Debt?

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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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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2025

Implementing Test-Driven Development (TDD) enhances readability, maintainability, and modularity. Even AI exhibits caution in refactoring without tests, mirroring human developer behaviour. Would it resemble code developed using TDD principles? TDD vs. AI: Is AI Truly Applying Test-Driven Development?

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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

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. The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management. Poor requirements change process.

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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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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. Smaller teams who feel this way can probably make do with the free version of Asana.

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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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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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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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MPUG

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Something of a revolution has occurred in the software development arena over the last few decades. Many companies, large and small, have converted to Agile project management methodology instead of the classic Waterfall type approaches that had dominated the development landscape some years ago. Iterative Design.

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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

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?

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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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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2019

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. Any given practice has trade-offs: it works well in some situations and proves to be a bad idea in others.

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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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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

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? I’ve developed this checklist to help you develop your project management plan including baselines, subsidiary plans, and ancillary plans.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2020

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

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

Develop your skills, learn about new project management research and become more employable. One of the biggest trends is the hybrid boom and how to manage teams who are distributed, in different departments and with different skill sets. Technical Project Management Conference. Where: AMA Conference Center, Atlanta, Ga., Agile 2022.

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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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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.” Imagine that you are managing a software development project. Think about your team. Look forward.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 29, 2018

But in truth jargon has a precise meaning; it’s not fluff but an efficient way to communicate and collaborate with your team. You might be too young to remember this sitcom that was developed from the hit movie American Graffiti , which followed the humorous trials and tribulations of teenagers in the rock-and-roll 1950s. Deliverables.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 28, 2022

Kanban is a visual workflow tool that, while originally used as a Toyota scheduling system, is now associated with in an agile methodology, especially in DevOps software development. As its popularity has grown, kanban boards have found a use in industries looking for a way to have everyone on the team view the state of their work.

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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

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

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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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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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." Here are some examples: Your software development project is behind schedule.

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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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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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