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What is the role of the PM in Agile?

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How Do You Reward Achievement Within a Team?

by Ken Whitaker

With the shift to a more agile, team-centric organizational structure, singling out individuals can become a cumbersome and stressful task for even the best and most experienced managers. In this article, we cover how rewards can actually backfire--and give you three rules of thumb for rewarding your best performers.

Danger! Naïve Agile Coaches Can Kill Agile Adoption Plans

by Kevin Aguanno, CSPM (IPMA-B), Cert.APM, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, FPMAC, FAPM

Some managers claim that agile approaches don’t work in large organizations because they have tried--and failed--to deploy agile methods in their company. This article describes one of the major underlying causes for these failed adoptions and makes suggestions for resolving the issue.

Introduction to Agile Planning and Project Management

by Michael Cottmeyer
August 22, 2011 | 60:41 | Views: 1,464 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.07 / 5

Agile introduces a number of tools and techniques designed to help the team figure out how much software we can build for the time we have, and the amount of money our customer is willing to spend. This talk will introduce the fundamental concepts necessary to break down and estimate our product backlog, how to organize delivery of that backlog for early risk reduction and rapid customer feedback, and how to get stable throughput and predictability as you mature your agile practices. This talk is for those looking to understand how (and why) agile methods lead to better business outcomes

Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders

by Bob Galen
July 09, 2013 | 45:01 | Views: 1,306 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.15 / 5

In this workshop, we’ll explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders. Those that understand Servant Leadership and how to effectively support, grow, coach, and empower their agile teams in ways that increase the teams’ performance, accountability, and engagement.

Growing High Performance Teams through Coaching & Mentoring

by Peter Saddington
April 22, 2013 | 59:27 | Views: 585 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.16 / 5

Did you know that over half of Nobel Prize winners were apprenticed by other Nobel laureates? To grow companies and teams to performance you have to take servant leadership to it's logical conclusion: Intentionally mentoring and growing others. This is a time-tested and practiced art. As a volunteer life coach and marriage counselor and Organizational Consultant, I'm passionate about this art and would love to share with you how to take your teams to the next level of performance. Let it be known, this is a long, tough road, but the benefits are worth more than their weight in gold. Let's talk about mentoring and how to get started, the 6 areas of a mentor relationship and 6 tips for mentors.

Fixed Price Agile Projects

by Jesse Fewell
September 15, 2011 | 45:26 | Views: 608 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 3.97 / 5

Agile experts tell us fixed price projects are immoral and declare that agility can only be delivered on a slippery schedule and budget. But what about the real world? What about fixed deadlines and fixed budgets? What about projects that are selected based on schedule and cost? How do you agile that? In this session, you will learn key principles for achieving agility in a fixed-price environment. Come discover how to achieve what agile experts tell you is impossible.

Looking in from the inside - the view of an agile coach

by George Schlitz
July 29, 2011 | 61:40 | Views: 782 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.09 / 5

Becoming an agile coach after years of project management and experience requires a huge shift- in mindset, goals, values, and perspective. It also provides a view that is not easy to comprehend without trying it, and a world of challenges that are not easy to overcome. In this brief talk, an experienced agile coach will describe what coaching is, reflect on the particulars of agile coaching, and begin to introduce the many seemingly-insurmountable obstacles one has to help teams, managers and leaders overcome.

Does Risk Management have a place in an Agile Lifecycle

by Greg Smith, Donna Reed
January 27, 2011 | 45:11 | Views: 1,590 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.14 / 5

We often have questions about relating traditional PM practices to Agile practices. This is especially true in the area of risk. In this one hour webinar, Greg will cover traditional risk management techniques and contrast them to the Agile risk management practices. Areas covered include BURP (Big Upfront Risk Planning), daily risk management, and team involvement in risk identification. You will learn how to use traditional risk management in harmony with an Agile lifecycle and how to perform risk management at a level that minimizes waste and over-planning.

Beyond Scope, Schedule, and Cost: Rethinking Performance

by Jim Highsmith
March 15, 2011 | 45:25 | Views: 3,132 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 3.99 / 5

Agile teams are asked to be agile, flexible, and adaptive, but then are told to conform to planned scope, schedule, and cost goals. They are asked to adapt, but inside a very small box. If we are to scale agility to large projects and bring agile values to organizations, then we must change performance measures. To mirror the Agile Manifesto, it's not that scope, schedule, and cost are unimportant, but that value and quality are more important. This talk explores the necessity for and the rationale behind moving to this new set of agile performance measures

What Happened to my Day Job?

by Angela Johnson
October 14, 2011 | 58:54 | Views: 689 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.10 / 5

Angela Johnson presents, "What Happened to my Day Job? Transitioning from PM to ScrumMaster"

Agile is Culture – a focus on Individuals and Interactions

by Barry Rogers
November 26, 2012 | 45:45 | Views: 738 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.12 / 5

Many organizations dive into the process mechanics of Agile project execution losing sight of the point of Agile in the first place. This presentation begins with an overview of why Agile is more about culture than it is about process. We will then discuss a variety of topics related to team dynamics at the individual, team and enterprise levels.

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