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Why an Agile Project Manager is Not a Scrum Master
A reader asked why the lifecycle in Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams, Part 1 is not Scrum. It’s not Scrum for these reasons: The project manager and product owner start the release planning and ask the team if the … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, geographically distributed teams, project management, roadmap, transition to agile, transparency
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Management Myth, Myth of 100% Utilitization Posted
I have an article posted at Techwell, Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization. This myth has always been a problem. It’s even more of a problem now as more organizations transition to agile. People need time to think. … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, Manage Your Project Portfolio, management, transition to agile
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Announcing Peer Project Portfolio Coaching
If you missed my most recent Pragmatic Manager newsletter, Focus on One Thing at a Time, it’s posted. In it, I ranted about the delays of multitasking and introduced a new service: Peer Project Portfolio Coaching. I keep seeing people … Continue reading
Leadership, Management, Transitioning to Agile
I’ve been working with several management teams who want me to train them or their project managers to take over the agile training. It’s not unreasonable from their perspective—it’s how they’ve transitioned to all the other process improvement approaches over … Continue reading
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Tagged congruence, leadership, management, self-directed teams, transition to agile
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Why Focus on Continuous Integration for Programs?
I hope that this 3-part series on how to move to continuous integration and how to evaluate if it’s worth moving to continuous integration on your program convinced you moving to continuous integration was worth it for programs. The reason … Continue reading
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 5
So where does all of this get us with budgets and dates? In many ways, estimating project budgets or dates for agile projects turns out to be irrelevant. If you have a ranked backlog, and you finish features, you can … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 4
In Part 3, you had some knowledge of the team’s velocity. This is the option of when you do not have knowledge of the team’s velocity, because this team has not worked together before, or has not worked on a … Continue reading
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Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 3
You have options for estimation, once you have met the preconditions. If you don’t have the feature set in a ranked order, you are in trouble. That’s because if you use any lifecycle other than an agile lifecycle, the feature … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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Estimating the Unknown: Projects or Budgets, Part 2
So now that you know why it’s so difficult to estimate what do you do when someone asks you for an estimate? Preconditions for Estimation First, you ask a question back: “What’s most important to you? If it’s 3 weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, estimation, iterative planning, kanban, team, timebox, transition to agile
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