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JUNE 4, 2018

e Nur, who previously worked as a project manager in STL, was eager to find efficient ways of managing our work and promoting collaboration within the Team. I still remember very clearly the exercise in which we failed to plan in an agile way. During that second day, our training was not only about being Agile.

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Xebia

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the following years my experience with analysts, testers, architects, service management and project manager is that they all teach their peers; “The earlier you get involved and play a role, the higher the quality and lower the cost of the project/change.” III] [link]. IV] [link].

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iTexico

JULY 26, 2021

If you are a first-time scrum master - a technical person who needs to get into an Agile software development project - or perhaps you’re a professional/entrepreneur doing non-software development activities who simply want to achieve your goals effectively and efficiently, there’s only one viable method to shoot for: Agile development.

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 8, 2017

In a previous post I looked at how the adoption of not only cloud-based software platforms but ancillary cloud-based services has really taken off, supported by a robust ecosystem of third-party SAAS tools for project management, testing, QA, monitoring, analytics, collaboration, etc.

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Openxcell

MARCH 1, 2023

There are many approaches/frameworks in the market that are deemed most feasible to develop a software product but Agile is the most prevalent and preferred one in the market right now. This exercise helps in resolving and clarifying the customer’s anticipations and requirements for the project development team.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Exam fee: $1199 Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Certified ScrumMaster is an entry-level certification offered by Scrum Alliance that is designed to validate your skills and abilities using Scrum, a popular agile development framework. For more information, see “ CAPM certification: Cost, salary, training, and more.”

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Cutter Consortium

JUNE 5, 2018

According to Srinivas Garapati , author of Core Thinking Patterns for Lean/Agile Organizations , to be truly Lean, organizations must also understand and incorporate the “why be Lean”, taking into account their own context, values, and goals. ” More Insight on Lean/Agile. But that’s wrong-headed; it’s much more than that.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The challenges of managing IT in a foreign land Adjusting to a new environment, motivating team members, and earning trust are challenges all expat CIOs confront. But differences in levels of technology maturity, project management, and governance can also present issues for foreign CIOs in fulfilling their core responsibilities.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 14, 2009

If you have no Agile projects in flight now, stand up a couple. There are different adoption patterns, but one very common approach is to start with requirements shaping and “level 1" Agile practice adoption. As you stand up Agile projects, define each of your gatekeepers to be functional, tested, useful and deployable asset.

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Zensar

AUGUST 31, 2018

Agile business transformation starts with the adoption of Agile methodology for software development and requires embodying the essence of Agile to achieve real business value. Agile teams tend to lose sight of the bigger picture while focussing solely on delivering one sprint at a time. Identify the users. Story sizing.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In the last installment we took a look at the project management information we get from results-based organization and execution, and how that provides an unambiguous status assessment. One alternative is a scorecard , which I wrote about in the Agile Journal some time ago. and non-functional quality (is it fast? does it scale?

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Codegiant

AUGUST 7, 2020

What does a project manager do on a daily basis??—?The The Ultimate Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: “ What does a project manager really do? To be honest, it’s gonna be quite hard to put all the PM roles under one roof as project managers in one industry can differ from PMs in another.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Eat healthy foods, exercise, and get plenty of sleep. People with project management skills can also help team members by pushing back on unnecessary meetings and conference calls. Second Edition cover.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

One of the first exercises one should do when coining the idea of a new product is to ask questions to the people, and in order to do that we first need to know who we will be asking these questions to. Another good exercise to perform early in the process it to find the position of our idea in our segment’s structure of needs.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2021

Imagine a company with, say, 100 experienced software engineers, project managers, QA engineers and the like that expects to add a dozen more people to the team in the next year. And, per the aforementioned statistics, labor is exercising that power. They will have to be aggressive just to stay in place. Well, labor is back.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 14, 2020

How do organizations actually work with Agile? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Allen Holub, discuss what organizations get wrong about Agile. Allen has been an Agile transformation consultant for nearly 40 years and has seen the best and worst it has to offer. Why Agile is failing (3:55).

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

For such skeptics, the enterprise context is diametrically opposite to the DevOps ideal: an intensive waterfall methodology, or perhaps the regimented Agile, which is only a little better. Unplanned outages were unacceptably common, and all mitigation efforts were reactive, fire-fighting exercises that never addressed the underlying issues.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. It didn't matter whether you were competent, Sun certified you as a Java developer, Scrum Alliance a Scrum Master, PMI a Project Manager, any employer a Six Sigma blackbelt.

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LeanEssays

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of agile development practices is the way in which teams decide what to do. Historically, someone with the role of business analyst, project manager, or product manager made the critical decisions about what to build. What product should be built? What features are most important?

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Cargo Cult Agile. Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. To avoid these sorts of delays and errors, Agile teams are cross-functional whole teams.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By being a servant leader, facilitator, and coach, without exercising authority, the ScrumMaster plays the role of creating an environment where the team thrives and delivers values. So what about having a Tech Lead or Manager fill the role of ScrumMaster? Massive hint: there are no meaningful measures of team productivity.)

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Mobilunity

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This helps to reduce cost, improves scalability, and facilitates smooth business operations during the migration exercise. Configuration Management Our outsourced DevOps experts use Configuration management to update the systems and software constantly, and ensure that there is no configuration drift for optimal operations.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Daily standups are perhaps the most well-known of all agile meetings. That’s a likely anti-pattern that brings us back to legacy management methods and not Agile. Status updates belong in project management tools, not meetings. . This is another sign of a lack of agile maturity.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

This content is derived from a webinar I presented earlier this month titled The Agile PMO: Real-Time Metrics and Visibility. We’ve all seen it: the project that reports “green” status on its stop-and- go light report for months suddenly goes red in the late stages of development. The project manager? The QA tester?

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

Big credits to Stefan Wolper , an agile coach, and his ebook about Scrum Masters. Without further ado: Scrum Master Role & Responsibilities (Overview) It’s the Scrum Master’s responsibility to bring the development team on the same page by teaching them all the values and principles that fundamentally shape Scrum and, respectively, Agile.

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Capgemini

JULY 14, 2021

In the first article in this short series, we looked at the impact that COVID-19 has made on standard approaches to supply chain management. In the second , I outlined the steps organizations can take to future-proof their supply chains, and at how they can build in resilience and agility. Tools and strategies. That’s true.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

The traditional approach to IT project management is consistent with “regulation by rule.” This camp values practices such as deterministic project plans, highly detailed task orders, explicit role definitions, and timesheet-based project tracking. This debate mirrors a similar phenomenon in IT.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Instead of a “requirements arms race” between business and IT, what if we were able to accommodate continuous business involvement, facilitated to enable continuous change management and adaptive project management?

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

The principal objective in managing a highly-capable organisation is not to take decisions for each person, but to keep in alignment decisions people take. Management of a professional capability is thus an exercise in making lots of adjustments, not pushing blindly ahead toward a solution.

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Accenture

JUNE 14, 2018

With our recent webinar on Agile product management as an enabler of product innovation, we wanted to dispel some common misconceptions about innovation. People, they form teams on their own and they stay up all night, and they rock something out, and it’s a fantastic exercise, but it is just that.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Agile teams avoid calling people “resources.” If you know anybody with political savvy—such as a product manager, project manager, or coach—ask them to help convey the message. Second Edition cover.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

Knowledge sharing exercises were canceled due to last minute "customer emergencies". Account managers controlled and outright blocked access to customers. The Micro Level: Individual's Goals versus Organizational Goals This is easy to understand at a micro level. How the actors deal with this conflict falls into one of five categories.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 27, 2023

Stakeholders such as project managers, business analysts, and customers may not possess the same technical proficiency as developers. While ChatGPT can be a time-saving resource, exercising caution and performing due diligence is necessary to ensure the reliability and correctness of the information provided by the model.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). The web is over 30 years old; the Netscape browser appeared in 1994, and it wasn’t the first. 2023 was one of those rare disruptive years.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 16, 2019

Applying collaborative exercises helps teams collect the information they need for making smart decisions. Prioritization exercises help the group understand the persona’s needs. For example, you can brainstorm your persona’s needs using an exercise known as 20/20 Vision. UX strategy canvas template, Source: UX studio.

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Praxent

MAY 30, 2019

When you round up, there is wiggle room to respond appropriately as the details of the project emerge. On agile development teams, work is done in “sprints” where the project is broken down into more manageable chunks. This exercise allows us to generate multiple staffing and project scenarios for the proposed product.

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