New PM, New Choices
byNew project managers are exposed to conflicting guidance. Recommendations often appear to be at odds, so what is the new PM to do? Let’s examine the basics so we can make an informed decision...
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PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2018
June 13, 2018 | Online
The PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2018 is the fusion of two prior events, the Internet Systems & Technologies Symposium, and the Talent Management Conference. The new event focuses on the impact of rapidly changing technologies on the project management discipline and careers. Participants will better understand how emerging technologies affect their career and skills progression, as well as the evolving needs of hiring managers as they seek out top project management talent.
PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2017
November 8, 2017 | Online
If you perform business analysis, your work is vital to project and program success. To most effectively support your organization and advance in your career, you need to know how to apply BA to any situation and delivery method. The new PMI Guide to Business Analysis will help you achieve this! Get an exclusive preview, with in-depth insights, at the PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2017.
PMI Organizational Agility Conference 2017
September 13, 2017 | Online
What does agile mean for your organization? Find out at this free virtual event—and sharpen your agile edge. With sudden market shifts and new priorities by the minute, agile transformation is an organizational imperative. You need to understand what agility means for your organization—and how to help lead it through change.
Upcoming Webinars
The Agile Enterprise: From Agile Teams to Agile Organization
Jan 18, 2019 9:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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This webinar looks at Agility at the Enterprise level from a Project Manager perspective, explaining the difference between the new Agile Enterprise (a top down Agile approach) and Enterprise Agile (the bottom up Agile transformation) that is scaling popular Agile frameworks from team level to organisation level.
The Agile Enterprise: Are the Initial Principles Still Valid Today?
Feb 8, 2019 9:00 AM EST (UTC-5)
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This webinar is a review of the principles and concepts developed before the publication of the Agile Manifesto and an analysis of the evolution of Agility in the last 25 years.
On-demand Webinars
Backlog / Story Grooming
Have you or your Agile teams had trouble refining requirements on an Agile project? Are your teams struggling with user stories and tasks that are too large for them to handle well? If so, you and your teams need more guidance to implement backlog / user story grooming. Backlog grooming is a step-by-step process of taking high-level (“coarse-grained”) requirements and refining them to lower-level user stories and tasks (“fine-level”) that are ready to put into a sprint. In RefineM’s Backlog/Story Grooming presentation, attendees will learn how to work the process to achieve fine-grained requirements that are ready just in time. The key to success is leveraging tools and techniques as well as the expertise of your team to refine requirements iteratively.
Simplifying Lean Six Sigma to Work in an Agile Environment
Lean Six Sigma techniques can be used at a smaller scale, but to be successful it needs to be adapted to the specifics of IT projects. This presentation is based on a real case study, using Lean Six Sigma to measure the impact of process improvement initiatives in a hybrid project delivery environment.
Leveraging Expertise: How to Easily Integrate Risk Management into Hybrid Projects
Hybrid project management has gained popularity due to its ability to effectively bridge traditional and agile methods. A major challenge faced by many Project Managers is knowing how to effectively plan, identify, and manage risks when using a hybrid approach.
Blog Insights
The Reluctant Agilist
byPodcasts and blog posts to help you manage the challenge of transitioning from traditional project management to Agile. Dave Prior celebrates success, embraces the learning that comes from failure, and digs deep on topics you need to be up to speed on.
Taking the Plunge
byIn case you actually read this description, the beginning of the blog is about preparing for the PMP exam. It then evolved into maintaining my credential. After taking a break for a few years, I'm back and will be blogging about project management, in general, and probably a bit of agile on a regular basis.
The Agility Series
byThe Agility Series focuses on agile and agility across the organization not just in software and product development. Areas of agility that will be covered in blog posts will include: - Organizational Agility - Leadership Agility - Strategic Agility - Value Agility - Delivery Agility - Business Agility - Cultural Agility - Client Agility - Learning Agility
Agile in Practice
byThis blog is a conversation between the Agile Practice Guide Team and our PMI and Agile Alliance Communities to gain insight, support and collaboration around the creation of a usable and relevant body of work that supports transition to hybrid and agile in project work.
Drunken PM
byDrunken Boxing for Project Managers “The main feature of the drunkard boxing is to hide combative hits in drunkard-like, unsteady movements and actions so as to confuse the opponent. The secret of this style of boxing is maintaining a clear mind while giving a drunken appearance.” Yeah... just like that… but with network diagrams and burndown charts… and a wee bit less vodka.
Save Time With Tools + Templates
Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) Prioritization Worksheet
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This spreadsheet is an example of how to determine WSJF prioritization, as described in the article Prioritize Weighted Shortest Job First.
Assess Value of Going Agile (Korean Translation)
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애자일 변환은 어디에서 조직의 가치를 극대화 할 것입니까? 비즈니스 환경이 급속히 변하는 지역이나 고객 또는 이해 관계자가 서비스 또는 제품의 지속적인 개선을 기대하는 지역 일 것입니다. 민첩한 접근 방식으로 가장 이익을 얻을 수있는 영역을보다 효과적으로 파악할 수있는 유용한 방법을 제시합니다.
WBS for Business Intelligence Projects
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This template provides a work breakdown structure for business intelligence projects and for requirement effort estimation for a waterfall methodology-based project or user story estimation for an agile-based project.
Assess Value of Going Agile (Japanese Translation)
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あなたの組織において、アジャイル・トランスフォーメーションが最も価値を生み出すのはどこだろう。おそらく、ビジネス状況が急速に変化している分野や、顧客やステークホルダーがサービスや製品の継続的な改善を期待している分野であろう。ここでは、アジャイル・アプローチから最も利益を得ることができる分野を、より明確にするために役立つ演習を紹介する。
Coaching Agile Leaders Assessment Guide and Survey (Korean Translation)
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코치로서 올바른 통찰력을 얻고 코칭 참여 성공이 최적인지 확인하기 위해 비즈니스 환경과 고객의 문화를 평가해야합니다. 이 문서에는 코치가 조직의 여러 수준의 지도자들로부터 데이터를 수집하고 수집 할 수 있도록하는 두 가지 유형의 평가 질문이 포함되어 있습니다.
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Requirements in Agile
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When companies move to an agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), they often remove the processes and analysis of their waterfall SDLC because, as the Agile Manifesto puts it, “They value individual and interactions over processes and tools.” Some of the rigor should be removed – waterfall processes can get bogged down with gates and sign-offs. However, caution must be exercised to not go too far against processes and analysis and rely just upon backlogs and user stories. Requirements and the analysis that leads to those requirements are just as essential in an agile project as they are in a waterfall project. The difference lies in how much requirements analysis is completed and the timing of it.
Agile Tools & Techniques for Self-Improvement
byAs project managers, we learn many tools and techniques that help us successfully complete many of our projects. But how many times have we used those techniques in our personal lives to overcome challenges and better ourselves?
Introducing Business-Agile: Bringing Agile to the Rest of the Enterprise
byEveryone in project management has heard of agile software development...but what about business-agile? Let's look at some clear principles, practical approaches and usable heuristics for this important approach.
Topic Teasers Vol. 115: Project QuickPlan
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Question: Maybe I’m a project manager, or maybe a ScrumMaster? All I know is that my organization is using a form of agile, and I think implementing the most important parts of it. But we don’t quite have the entire “team meeting with the product owner and the other high-level stakeholders” perfected yet. For the necessary communication, I do get to sit with them and ask questions, which is good. However, without my familiar processes and paperwork for traditional projects, I don’t quite know what to ask or how to get the proper sign-offs. How can I make sure I’m taking the proper information back to my team?
Most Agile Transformations Will Fail
byAgile transformation success is different than agile project success. And the sad reality is that though well-intentioned, most agile transformations tend to fail. Here are five reasons why.
Hybrid Evaluation: A Compelling Vision
byNeed help evaluating your new venture? A hybrid review technique that integrates traditional evaluation techniques with agile practices might be just what you need.
IT Business Analysts: Librarians, Zombies or Ninjas?
byThe role and persona of the business analyst (BA) on IT projects has changed. Let’s chart the course of the BA's rise, demise and rebirth.
Enterprise Digital Agility: An Absolute Transformation
byThe role of enterprise agility is very important as it brings the ability to adapt easily to the change introduced—and then sustain it. It allows organizations to respond quickly to the change resulting from digital transformation, either through automation of business process or process re-engineering.
Agility in Project Management
byProject managers need leadership skills—specifically emotional intelligence (EI)—to augment technical expertise. But agile thinking, leadership and EI skills are just one facet of project success. Businesses need to invest in project management processes that are agile to respond to the changing needs of the organization.
How to Integrate Time Zones for Successful Collaboration
byMany managers of distributed agile software teams struggle with time zones. Team members may also struggle with maintaining a traditional eight-hour workday when separated by multiple time zones. Perhaps it’s not the time zones that are the challenge; the real challenge lies in re-thinking the workday of the team.
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