If you want your career to grow beyond the team level, you must learn to see the system as it actually operates. Knowledge of Scrum is only the beginning. Navigating power, incentives, and influence is what unlocks the next level.
Both SAFe and LeSS offer valuable frameworks for scaling agile practices. Each have their own benefits—and challenges that should be carefully considered based on an organization's specific context and goals.
While the scrum master role is incredibly important, it’s rarely intended to be a final destination. In fact, staying in the role too long can stall your career if you aren’t constantly focused on expanding your scope or influence.
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Worried AI might replace your role? You’re not alone. Generative AI is transforming the workplace at record speed, automating many of the routine tasks that Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts and others manage daily.
Presenting the SCRUMBAN framework and discussing what would change in SCRUM in adopting this combination
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).
Scrum has been at the forefront of a revolution in how software is developed and deployed. Who is using it? How? And why? In this exclusive 48-page report from ProjectsAtWork, Scrum Alliance and ProjectManagement.com, 500 professionals share their answers.
This 19-slide deck is a companion piece to the Agile Distributed Teams research report from ProjectsAtWork. It is designed to help you leverage the report's key findings and recommendations to achieve the benefits of working with distributed agile teams in your organization.
The purpose of the Scrum of Scrums is to synchronize projects that are interdependent upon one another and to discuss any roadblocks, impacts and mitigation strategies. Use this simple PowerPoint deck to track project progress and roadblocks.
If you're losing the attention of your team during meetings, it may be time to look at other ways to increase engagement. Let’s go through three different styles that morning meetings can take—and see which one may be right for your team.
Question: We are an organization that has both manufacturing type teams and those who do more software-oriented things. Management really wants us to do things that are more similar in the way we manage projects. Since what we do doesn’t really lend itself to a single approach to the work we need to complete, how can we set up something that works for both parts of the organization?
Does an agile team need a project manager? Should a scrum master be bossy? A practitioner in a software development project makes some observations as he adapts to a new way of working.
Read how one PM used systematic problem-solving techniques to visualize, categorize and analyze problems and find underlying root causes—leading a project from red to green status in four weeks. This article suggests that a systematic approach to problem-solving can assist leaders in understanding problems and devising plans to resolve them promptly.
Holding a retrospective during a crisis is a completely different process than it is during less stressful times. As a PM, you should be aware of the appropriate methods to use when this happens. A practitioner from Ukraine shares her experiences.
Are you a stickler for "agile rules" when using agile project management? Don't be! That's just one of the lessons this practitioner has learned over the years through hands-on experience succeeding—and failing—while working on agile efforts.
Scrum masters and project managers can form a formidable leadership team on agile initiatives. But how does that relationship and scrum master’s role evolve in a hybrid environment? For one, more attention to coaching and less to process.
Sprint planning is an important part of the agile process, but too often it’s treated as a perfunctory step to simply add stories to the upcoming sprint. Instead, teams should include goals, value and uncertainty in the discussion—and get much more out of it.
Question: I am going to head a team on a large, corporate project that will involve multiple teams. The problem is that we are not all going to be using the same methods of project management, and I am concerned about how we will be able to work together if we are not all following the same processes. Is it possible for various parts of the organization to work in different ways and still produce a good product?
Prototyping, scrum, SAFE, kanban...it's easy to get confused these days. Here we walk through some of the main project methodologies used for IT projects today and give a little history of each—with some recommendations for when each methodology might be most appropriate.
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