Accountability and transparency are two of the benefits these solutions offer. Pamela Parker on May 11, 2020 The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore … Continue reading What are enterprise workflow and project management tools and how do they help marketers?
With the workforce at home, a rise in agile adoption, and organizations making major pivots in strategy, the need for these types of platforms is likely to continue. Henry Powderly on May 4, 2020 With the lion share of marketers currently working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, digital workflow and project management tools are … Continue reading Project management tools take center stage as distributed marketers crave ‘single source of truth’
Cesario Ramos — April 8, 2020 This is the first part of a blog series about product definition in Large Scale Scrum. In large product development, teams tend to work on just a part of the real product. The part—a narrow product definition– is often a component or a specific activity in the development process; … Continue reading Product Definition in Large Scale Scrum – Part 1
Esther Cohen — April 6, 2020 Dealing with the COVID-19 crisis requires tough measures, as our latest article shows. In the year 1697, the Dutch ship Geelvink commanded by Willem de Vlamingh landed on the western coast of Australia. While sailing up the Swan River, de Vlamingh and his sailors saw something extraordinary: black swans, … Continue reading Project Management and COVID-19: How to Manage an Extraordinary Crisis
Piyush Rahate — April 6, 2020 Every Sprint starts with a Sprint Planning event. It is very crucial to ensure that the Scrum Team comes to a shared understanding of what and how are they going to deliver a “Done” increment that creates maximum business impact. Although, like other events Sprint Planning also is often … Continue reading Sprint Planning: 5 Dysfunctions
Louis-Philippe Carignan — March 18, 2020 The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It was first published in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas who wanted an almanac “to be useful with a pleasant degree of humor. Many long-time Almanac followers claim that its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate. … Continue reading Agile Forecasting Techniques for the Next Decade
Steve Trapps — March 15, 2020 The Sprint Goal is mentioned numerous times in the Scrum Guide, however it can be over looked by many teams or seen as an “oh yeah” moment when teams are finishing Sprint Planning. When I started out in a Scrum Team we never really had a Sprint Goal, our … Continue reading Sprint Goal Template
Sahin Guvenilir — March 13, 2020 A Day in a Life of a Scrum Master It’s 9:30 am. The Scrum Team gather around their team desk to hold the Daily Scrum. Jamie, one of the team members, highlights a problem that he faced (March 15, 2020): “I cannot deploy the code into the staging environment … Continue reading A Scrum Master’s Search for “The Art of the Possible”
Hassan Mansoor — March 12, 2020 mary1826 / Pixabay You’ve finally committed to adopting an agile methodology within your company. Now what? Some businesses may find that they follow Agile loosely, bringing less effective results and frustration. Other companies may drift back to their old way of project management and development. Just think—do you want … Continue reading So You Have Implemented Agile: Now What?
Daria Bagina — March 12, 2020 You must have heard about the Radical Candor book and its quadrant model. Today I want to talk about how you can apply this model to a Scrum Master role. And because empathy is an important trait for a Scrum Master, I would like to focus on how this … Continue reading Ruinous Empathy of a Scrum Master
