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One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria, and how they relate to User Stories. ...

There are two common mistakes made when setting goals. #1 Not setting any goals #2 Setting too many goals ...

For the past few decades, agility in the technology sector has largely meant moving faster and faster down a predetermined path; innovation has largely been driven by our ability to cram more transistors onto a silicon wafer. With every new generation of chips came new possibilities and new applications. The firms that developed those applications the fastest won. ...

As we enter a new decade, characterized by rising economic complexity and geopolitical divisions — U.S.-China tensions, populism and nationalism in Europe, and the looming risk of a global recession — forward-thinking business leaders are developing strategies to mitigate the longer-term risk of deglobalization. They are concerned about trade protectionism, and the revenue a company could lose in any tariff wars. ...

Project management conferences are a fantastic way to meet new people and improve your skills. I always come away feeling energised about where I am in my career and relieved having met people with similar problems to me. ...

Stage Gate Reviews make a valuable contribution to project governance. So, if you can introduce a gateway process into your project, you will gain more control and greater accountability. But that does rely on you running an effective gateway review process. ...

Timeline charts are one of the smartest and most mind-friendly tools for displaying the progress of a project over time. In this article, we’ll see why timelines are so useful and when to use different kinds of timelines, according to your project needs. ...

The concept Project integration management is a key skill that is the tightly woven into the PM industry standard processes laid out by the Project Management Institute (PMI). As defined by PMI, project integration management are the processes and activities needed to integrate the various elements of project management, which are identified, defined, combined, unified, and coordinated within the Project Management Process Groups. ...

The Kano Model is a tool to help categorize product requirements. The model created by Professor Kano groups all requirements into five categories: ...

Specifications are well-loved by managers, because they detail every tiny step up-front. A specification builds a nice hierarchy, and it makes you think that once you hand it over to the developers, they follow it to the letter. Magic happens, and you get a perfect product ready to go. ...

The concept of measuring quality can be a hot-button topic for many software testers. This is because metrics can be used poorly; we've all heard stories about testers who were evaluated based on how many bugs they found or how many automated tests they wrote. ...

Today’s #mappingmondays video shows the next part of the series of how we can use Wardley Mapping to map out unique attributes as part of April Dunford’s Product Positioning Framework from the book Obviously Awesome. ...

Most of us get there from time to time. You’re stuck in a season where everything feels urgent. It’s one thing to push yourself, but what do you do when you know your team is exhausted too? ...

National politics might dominate the headlines and dinner table conversations. But office internal politics impact your everyday life in a completely different manner. ...

Agile is all about fast feedback loops—hours or, at most, a couple days. Deliberately lengthening your feedback loop in pursuit of the chimera of perfection destroys your agility. The cost of that delay is a real cost. It usually exceeds development costs by a large factor. Deliberately delaying a release as you pursue perfect knowledge is IMO irresponsible. It’s literally so expensive that it can destroy the company. ...

Erin McManus and Fiona Siseman discuss Agile coaching at Spotify, its evolution, struggles and pitfalls, and how coaches are set up for present and future success. ...

Als Großgruppenmoderation war mir schon die Methode Open Space bekannt. Dann erfuhr ich durch Zufall, der mir auf einer meiner vielen Zugheimfahrten auf dem Nebensitz Platz nahm, von einer weiteren Methode mit dem Namen gruppenbing. ...

Many years ago I was hired to be the Project Manager of a struggling project to report statistical data to state governments. I was the third person to fill ...

Scrum is the most commonly used framework in Agile and there is not a role equivalent to the project manager. There are two roles that people ...

Was müssen Arbeitgeber aus arbeitsrechtlicher Sicht beachten, wenn ihre Teams mit der agilen Arbeitsmethode Scrum arbeiten? Im Zusammenhang ...

You see the term 'Hybrid Project Management' around a lot at the moment. It typically refers to a combination of 'Waterfall' and 'Agile' but in my view ...

Der Begriff Kanban kommt ursprünglich aus dem japanischen und bedeutet übersetzt „Signalkarte“. Die Kanban-Methode wurde erstmals im ...

There is a myth that Sprint Goals are a way to focus Scrum teams towards a common purpose, the reality is the exact opposite, that Sprint Goals are in ...

When these projects get underway, a virtual project manager is usually needed to help keep everything on track. This person may be a manager ...

We spoke to Eleanor O'Shea, a vice president (VP)-level product owner in the enterprise risk technology team who's helping drive this change by ...

As we've seen an explosion of tools to implement CI/CD in our Scrum teams, we've also seen some of our Agile practices being challenged by this ...

However, that all stopped when I was introduced to project management tools. Their features make it easy to stay on track and have significantly ...

Many organizations use the agile scrum model — from the simplest forms ... Don't forsake expert roles like system analyst, test manager, or project ...

Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) workshop has a module that talks about the Definition of DONE (DoD) and Technical Debt. I have often come ...

We have all heard about the benefits of using agile project management: the reduced bureaucracy, faster delivery, higher productivity, increased ...

Jedem unserer Teams wurde ein Product Owner (PO) zugewiesen, die eng mit dem jeweiligen Team zusammenarbeiten und im Grunde mit in die ...

Das Hersteller- und Consulting-Unternehmen OPUS hat eine neue Version von KLUSA veröffentlicht. Dadurch wird die ...

Product Owner: organisiert die Aufgaben, stellt fachliche Anforderungen und priorisiert sie; Scrum Master / Agile Coach: managt den Prozess, sorgt für ...

Zuletzt gab es im Oktober ein umfangreiches Update: Mit Teilaufgaben kann seither mehr Übersicht in Kanban-Boards gebracht werden.

Looking forward to 2020, Scott Ambler, vice president and chief scientist of disciplined Agile at the Project Management Institute (PMI), a global ...

Die Bochumer Projektmanagement-Software factro (https://www.factro.de/), eines der führenden Tools für Aufgaben- und Projektmanagement in der ...

By Howie Fenton – The idea for this post came from answers to interviews in a recent IPMA research report that shows how some in-plant leaders are ...

For instance, the article “The Cost Of Bad Project Management” reports that only 2.5% of companies successfully completed 100% of their projects.

Die Digitalisierung wird auch im kommenden Jahr immer mehr Unternehmen beschäftigen. Geschäftsmodelle werden transformiert, Prozesse ...

The rapid transformation of the project-management field is forcing project managers ... Calling yourself an Agile shop is likewise outdated, he added.