by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 23, 2021 | News
TL; DR: Agile Lies, 15. State of Agile Survey — Food for Agile Thought #302 Welcome to the 302nd edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 32,531 peers. This week, we lament the state of agile in the industry today, from its perception to agile...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 22, 2021 | Skills
What is hybrid project management? Hybrid project management is a trending topic at the moment. It refers to the tailoring of the project management approach in use to deliver work. Instead of rigidly adhering to a waterfall (predictive) or Agile (iterative) method,...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 21, 2021 | ACB21, Agile and Scrum, Agile Camp Berlin 2021, agile transformation, Agile Transition, Product management, team building
TL; DR: Linking Strategy to Everyday Work w/ John Cutler — ACB21 In this highly engaging speaker session from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, John Cutler delves into the advantages of linking strategy to everyday work: Motivation, inspiration, seeing the big picture...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 20, 2021 | General
GetApp’s survey of over 1,000 managers, decision-makers and SME owners has revealed that despite the proven benefits project management software brings to businesses, more than half of employees opposed their managers’ suggestion to implement PM software. A whopping...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 19, 2021 | How To
We were due to go live with our pilot software launch but things didn’t feel right. We had the go/no go meeting and as I sat in the office, it just felt like we weren’t ready. My project sponsor was on holiday in Canada. I emailed him, because I wanted to be told that...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 18, 2021 | Agile and Scrum, Agile Transition, Making Your Scrum Work, Scrum anti-patterns, scrum team, Self-organization
TL; DR: Ignoring Self-Management — Undermining Scrum from the Start There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. One of Scrum’s first principles is...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 18, 2021 | Agile, governance, management failure, Process Peeves, project management
The latest version of the Scrum Guide states “The Developers can select whatever structure and techniques they want, as long as their Daily Scrum focuses on progress toward the Sprint Goal and produces an actionable plan for the next day of work. This creates focus...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 16, 2021 | News
TL; DR: Knowledge Work & Cottage Industry, Pre-Mortems — Food for Agile Thought #301 Welcome to the 301st edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 32,359 peers. This week, we reflect on knowledge work, Taylorism, management & trust, and...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 15, 2021 | Books, This article contains affiliate links.
The PRINCE2® certification exam is tricky to pass because of the style of objective testing and the number of questions you have to answer. But PRINCE2 itself is not a difficult method to learn – and the official manual is actually pretty easy to follow and...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jul 14, 2021 | ACB21, agile adoption, Agile and Scrum, Agile Camp Berlin 2021, agile transformation, Agile Transition
TL; DR: Sustainable Agility at the Enterprise Level w/ Jorgen Hesselberg — ACB21 In this highly engaging speaker session on sustainable agility from the Agile Camp Berlin 2021, Jorgen Hesselberg delves into the root cause of failing agile transformation efforts:...
