Top Influencers

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Sally Elatta President, Agile Transformation inc OMAHA, NE, USA

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Dave Prior Trainer/Consultant, LeadingAgile New York, NY, USA

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Kiron Bondale Trainer, coach, trusted advisor & speaker, World Class Productivity Inc. Mississauga, ONTARIO, Canada

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Mike Griffiths President, Leading Answers Canmore, ALBERTA, Canada

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Michael Boyle Managing Director, Procurro Solutions Vienna, Austria

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Tareq Shaheen Head of Payment Solutions, EastNets Ammman, Jordan

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Johanna Rothman Owner, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Arlington, MA, USA

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Doug DeCarlo Principal, The Doug DeCarlo Group Inc. MARS HILL, NC, USA

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Matt Brady Executive Consultant, Director of Recruiting, Afterburner Atlanta, GA, USA

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Ansley Anchors Marketing Coordinator, Afterburner Atlanta, GA, USA

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Connect In Person

PMI® Organizational Agility Conference 2018

September 12, 2018 9:00 AM | Online

PMI MEMBER-ONLY event

All organizations, whether small or large, need individuals who understand how important and impactful adaptability and agility are to overall success. By attending this virtual event you will learn how you can help your organization embrace the opportunities in change, disruption, and transformation.

PMI Talent & Technology Symposium 2018

June 13, 2018 9:00 AM | Online

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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 will focus 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.

Upcoming Webinars

Using Lean Six Sigma to Improve Agile: Lessons Learned in a Start-up

Aug 7, 2018 9:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)

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Six Sigma can be the balance between Lean and Agile, measuring the impact of Lean and/or Agile initiatives. This presentation is based on a real case study, using Lean Six Sigma's Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control (DMAIC) process to make the Scrum process more efficient in a software start-up.

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First Steps Toward Agility: Incorporating Agile Practices in a Waterfall Environment

by NK Shrivastava

July 09, 2018 | 62:17 | Views: 1,469 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.29 / 5

This webinar reveals practical concrete steps you can take to begin incorporating time-tested Agile practices that will help your team move the needle. Waterfall teams can adapt key Agile practices to improve agility without undergoing a full Agile transformation, enabling them to stay Waterfall or even adopt a hybrid Agile/Waterfall approach. You will leave with the knowledge and skills to begin adapting key Agile practices and taking your first steps toward Agile transformation.

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Blockchain Overview - Opportunities and Challenges for Project Managers

by Tareq Shaheen

April 05, 2018 | 59:50 | Views: 9,630 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.11 / 5

An explanation of blockchain both on the technical level and the business level. This technology will be described and explore the business use cases where blockchain technology is seen to be of great value. Blockchain projects will grow exponentially in the future; as such, project managers will benefit from better understanding the technical and business sides of blockchain.

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It’s Hard Being Agile While Getting Drenched in a Waterfall

by Kiron Bondale

March 27, 2018 | 60:52 | Views: 13,003 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.54 / 5

The Manifesto for Agile Software Development might have been written for software development, but did you know that agile was based on lean, servant-leadership and other principles which can be applied to any type of project? This webinar will cover agile behaviors, practices and techniques which can be used regardless of industry or project delivery approach.

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Blog Insights

The Reluctant Agilist

by Dave Prior

Podcasts 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

by Aaron Porter (MBA, PMP, CSM)

In 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

by Lawrence Cooper

The 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

by Stephen Matola, Karl Best, Stephen Townsend, Edivandro Conforto, Jesse Fewell, Mike Griffiths, Horia Slusanschi, Becky Hartman, Betsy Kauffman, Kristin Jones, Johanna Rothman

This 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

by Dave Prior

Drunken 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

WBS for Business Intelligence Projects

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by Priyanka Jain

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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by ProjectsatWork.com

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

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by Dave Cornelius, DMa

As a coach, you must assess both the business climate and the customer’s culture in order to obtain the right insights and ensure the coaching engagement success is optimal. This document includes two types of assessment questions that allow coaches to gather and collect data from leaders at multiple levels in the organization.

Project Cost Estimator

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by Atul Deshmukh

This template can be used to estimate costs for a project based on Scrum iterations/sprints. This tool assumes basic knowledge of agile/Scrum. The template is divided into three spreadsheets: Overview (detailed explanation of the template and usage), Estimator (calculations required for obtaining project cost estimates) and Data (look up data used in the estimator worksheet).

Project Issue Log

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by Penghis Anca

This project tracking template is for PMs in organizations that do not have a standing project management system in place. This template allows you to track customer and internal prioritization in parallel and generate sprint-like plans for issues to complete in the next two weeks, applying agile principles absent related tools.

Learn From Others

Requirements in Agile

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by Joy Beatty Candase Hokanson

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.

Explain Program Risks with Cost of Delay

by Johanna Rothman July 19, 2018

Product and feature delays can adversely affect adoption for IT projects and revenue for commercial products. Cost of delay (CoD) is a way to explain and calculate those costs. Here’s how one agile program manager used CoD to explain risks.

Understanding Popular PM Methodologies and Frameworks

by Ramkumar Arumugam July 19, 2018

Multiple project management methodologies and frameworks have been followed, with newer ones—some facing resistance depending on the degree of cultural challenges—being adopted by organizations. This article will look at some of today’s key PM methodologies and frameworks.

Prioritize 'Weighted Shortest Job First'

by Bart Gerardi July 19, 2018

An agile process called Weighted Shortest Job First can help teams create a well-groomed, prioritized backlog. Let's take a look at how it works, through maintaining the frequency of releases and providing continuous value to the customer—while still factoring in things like risk profiles, future capabilities and the cost of delaying the work.

Agile Performance Standards

by Andy Jordan July 19, 2018

As more organizations embrace agile approaches for different projects and programs, the need increases for performance standards to measure against. But these measures should be true to agile principles and not place a heavy burden of data capture or reporting on teams.

Agile Risk Management (Korean Translation)

by Mike Griffiths July 13, 2018

민첩한 접근 방식에는 표준으로 마련된 위험 관리 접근법이 없습니다. 그들은 통합 지점을 가지고 있지만 필요한 단계는 가지고 있지 않습니다. 다행히도 약간의 노력으로 이러한 격차를 해소하고 위험과 기회를 효과적으로 해결하는 데 필요한 기술을 팀에 제공 할 수 있습니다.

Are agile projects really more successful? Are use assumptions on agile true? (Korean Translation)

by Pedro Serrador July 13, 2018

이 웹 세미나에서는 애자일 방법론이 전통적인 방법론보다 더 성공적인지 여부를 검토하는 최근 데이터에 대해 논의합니다. 참석자는 애자일의 어떤 측면이 성공적인 결과로 이어 졌는지 배우게됩니다.

The Adaptive Strategy Framework (Korean Translation)

by Lawrence Cooper July 13, 2018

적응 전략 프레임 워크는 전략적으로 가치 창출을 가능하게합니다. 조직의 비전과 전략을 반복적으로 점진적으로 실현할 수 있습니다. 창 발적 사고를 포용하고 지속적인 개선을 통해 적응력을 보여줍니다. 프레임 워크는 역할, 이벤트, 아티팩트 및 규칙으로 구성됩니다.

Performance Management Stinks! - Here's an Agile Way to do It! (Korean Translation)

by Sally Elatta July 13, 2018

이 세션을 통해 우리는이 주제를 깊이 파고 애자일 채택 규모를 확장 한 조직의 성과 관리를 생각하는 새로운 현대적이고 민첩한 방법을 공유 할 것입니다.

Help Your PMO Thrive in an Agile World: Become the CFO's New Best Friend

by Donna Fitzgerald July 9, 2018

Repurposing the PMO in an agile environment from being a reporting PMO to a fully trained analytical PMO is something that is urgently needed. CFOs cannot continue to accept the information that they’ve been getting from IT at face value.