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2020 has certainly been a year to be remembered, and perhaps maybe forgotten. It has created new working habits and patterns that are likely to stay with us for years to come. Some with online business models remain largely unaffected. Others have had to scramble and get quickly...
I'm dreaming of an agile New Year
Just like the teams I used to know.
Where the backlogs glisten
And product owners listen
To hear improvement in the retro, oh, the retro.
I said I'm dreaming of an agile New Year
With every user story I write.
May your stand-ups be merry and hustle
And may all...
Holding the project team and others accountable for completing their work is an important skill for a project manager. It is especially important for agile and other less traditional project management methods where the team is largely self-organizing and self-managing.
To help the agile...
With a growing number of organizations shifting to agile methods for projects, those in the traditional project management role may want to consider how to transition from predictive to agile projects. In the future, the best project managers will operate more flexibly and manage projects...
"We've got three R's we're going to talk about today
We've got to learn to
Reduce, reuse, recycle"- Jack Johnson
While often thought of as a "lean" process, agile projects can be full of waste. This waste can lead to increased project time and cost, lower productivity, and a failure to deliver...
Most agile projects rely on iterations; typically three week periods sometimes referred to as sprints. Each sprint incorporates four agile events, formerly referred to as ceremonies, that help keep the project on track. One event is scheduled daily, and the remainder is at the end of...
As an agile project manager, you will need to change your mindset to succeed. Your role and your team and stakeholders' roles will be different from what they would be in predictive (waterfall) projects. How you manage will need to be different too.
Here are 6 tips to help you adjust:...
In any project, there are four primary development life cycles. A fifth, hybrid, is any combination of these four. These are for the phases of the projects which produce the product, service, or other results.
This chart breaks them down by the uses and attributes of the project activities...
Organizations face the temptation to call everything a project. Then, they apply a project manager and a lot of overhead to manage them. So while the formal definition of a project includes "temporary" and "produces a unique result," smart managers apply some additional rules. These may...
With the widespread recognition of project management as a valuable organizational core competency, the current economic climate, and the continued challenges of doing more with less, I continue to observe more and more project managers that have been bestowed the title (either by themselves, by...
The most productive meetings result in decisions and actions. Recording the decisions and actions in meeting minutes creates a useful accountability tool. Minutes can also keep those unable to attend informed of results. Good minutes are both easy to develop and ensure an...
Video conferencing, especially from home, has become a new norm. Here are six tips to improve your virtual meetings.
- Start on time. Unlike an office setting, people aren't walking to the meeting and collecting attendees on the way. Especially if you are the host, be sure to be on time. I...