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Meetings are one of the most important, yet also maligned aspects of the professional world. Some productivity gurus suggest cutting them down and running them like a 5-minute team talk, others propose performing them standing up and many more suggest banning them altogether. While calls for such draconian steps are probably wide of the mark,...
No transition from milestone-driven work to Agile project management is without its challenges. The Agile methodology is known for empowering teams to work more efficiently and effectively, but these results seldom happen overnight. That’s because making the switch to Agile project management isn’t a one-time action, it’s a journey that requires the support of executives,...
Until recently, manual traceability from compliance reporting has held back large organizations from becoming software innovators. Now, enterprise toolchain integration is helping organizations across heavily-regulated industries, such as healthcare, automobile, finance and government, to automate the sophisticated flow of work from ideation to operation, helping them obtain one source of truth into a product’s development....
Project management has become an increasingly common factor in how most companies perform their operations, but it is not yet universal. For firms who use it, the importance of project management is clear, but for those who don’t, the picture might not be as obvious. How the project management steps and process work for any...
In a previous blog, “Agile Release Trains are Key to Scaling Output,” I reviewed how Agile release trains (made up of multiple Agile teams) are the key to Agile at scale. Building successful teams is a good first step, but alignment across teams doesn’t just happen—it takes an ongoing commitment from Agile leaders. Agile ceremonies...
It’s no secret that project management has its challenges, one of which is being able to communicate project plans and progress in a simple and easy way that everyone can understand. You want to keep everyone on the same page, to be able to turn complex project data into clear insights. However, a project often...
From time to time we like to share our thoughts about major trends we see in the PM market. While the demand on project managers to deliver on time and on budget is never going to go away, we hope our insight into PM trends will help make your job just a little easier. Agile...
No Project is an Island Every project is a new adventure into potentially unknown territory, where people may not (literally and figuratively) speak the same language, wear the same clothes, or view their business world through the same data lens (literally!). Culturally siloed groups may be the result of regional locations, functional issues, historical norms,...
“If you measure anything, measure wait time” – Dominica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible A major part of Flow Metrics is tracking all the work that goes into planning, building and delivering a product for the business. Just as it’s important to track how much value you’re delivering, how long work is takin, and how much...
One of the most important elements of the Scrum methodology is the “sprint.” This is a pre-defined amount of time, usually between one and four weeks, within which a certain number of tasks connected to a project are set to be completed. The sprint kicks off with a sprint planning session on Day One, where...
