by Steve Parker | Jul 2, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, Featured, Human Resource Management
Human resource management’s importance is often neglected in many companies for several reasons. In the time and age of today, where slowly but surely we are moving to a more automated world, the day to day practices of an Agile human resource management professional...
by Dmitriy Nizhebetskiy | Jul 1, 2020 | Project Manager Career, Software Development Project Management
So, it’s time for you to become an IT project manager. But you don’t have a relevant degree, experience, or technical background… Is it possible at all to become a project manager in an IT company like that? Yes, it is. For sure, the easiest way to become a software...
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by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 1, 2020 | Project Management Skills, This article contains affiliate links.
There are trends in all industries and professions. Project management is no different: we see trends come and go, or stay with us and develop over time. Recently I’ve been reflecting on what the shifts are and where that is taking us as project managers. I’ve done a...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jul 1, 2020 | affiliate, Agile, General
Regular readers will know that I’m not at all experienced in formal Agile project management, but I know it is something that I need to know more about. Today I’m partnering with Eylean to give you an overview of three agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban....
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 30, 2020 | Build a Career, This article contains affiliate links.
I write a lot about how to be better at your job, how to excel at interview, how to improve your skills and so on, and I interview a lot of experts who talk about those kinds of things. Today I want to talk about the opposite: what you should avoid doing at work. I’ve...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 29, 2020 | Build a Career, Project Management Skills
This is a guest post from Charlie Davidson. Charlie Davidson Have you ever heard of a T-shaped developer? It’s a common phrase used in software development where the developer has broad experience in their role but is also profoundly skilled in one specific area. The...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 28, 2020 | Agile, project decision making, project management, Project performance, Risk Management
Articles have been written about the importance of doing just enough planning to develop confidence in what we are proposing to do as well as the perils of either too much or too little planning. But even a good enough plan can become obsolete at some point and we...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 28, 2020 | ACB20, Agile and Scrum, Hands-on Agile community, Remote Agile, Virtual Barcamps, Virtual Liberating Structures
TL; DR: Results of a Test of Using Unhangout to Host Virtual Barcamps Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven virtual open space events....
by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 27, 2020 | Productivity, Software
There’s a lot of chatter in project management communities about how hard it is to capture lessons learned in project management. Actually, it’s not. It’s very easy to capture lessons learned. It’s very difficult to find helpful lessons that you can apply to your...
by Stefan Wolpers | Jun 26, 2020 | News
TL; DR: Large Scale Agility, Silos & Politics — Food for Agile Thought #248 Welcome to the 248th edition of the Food for Agile Thought newsletter, shared with 26,751 peers. This week, we learn to assess agile coaches regarding their competence for large scale...
