Program Management Office (PMO) has been an important aspect of any organization delivering products, projects or providing services. PMO is usualy needed for a number of reasons. The benefits of PMO are but not limited to: Bring in consistency in delivering products, projects or services. Provide transparent reporting. Ensure effective investment in all the projects. …
The Agile framework has 2 significant or Key methodologies in today’s software project environment. Both are equally efficient and produce results. However, if the right methodology is used after accessing the project you are handling, that is when you get the right results. Also, over a period of time, as the organization project management model changes, …
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Having discussed about the importance of project management processes in Agile Scrum in my previous blog, let us now look at the reasons why Scrum projects fail and then we shall look at the approach to solve these problems to help achieve successful Agile Scrum projects. Re-iterating some key points on Agile Scrum… We now …
Having discussed about the importance of project management processes in Agile Scrum in my previous blog, let us look at 5 key Agile myths due to which scrum projects fail. As discussed earlier, for many who are implementing Agile, they feel as if they have found a panacea to all project related problems. It seems …
One of the major concerns across many organisations is whether to go for Agile or Waterfall methodology. Most of the project managers higher up in the corporate ladder have to take this decision. And this becomes more difficult when one has the pressure to deliver a successful project at the end. Thankfully, there are certain …
Program and Project managers are always at the edge of their seat when it comes to planning. In a common release cycle, while one release cycle is coming to a close, the next one is already in execution phase, while one needs to look into the planning aspects of the forthcoming release. So, a program …
You may be focused on your Agile processes, tools and techniques. But, all this may not be delivering the right value to the customer. At the end of the day, it’s the customer who has to be benefit from the deliveries made through iterations and Release delivery. If we re-look at the traditional Iron triangle, …
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The Time value of money for projects is calculated not only in terms of money, but also in terms of: Return on Investment (RoI) Customer satisfaction Employee satisfaction Innovation Rate Customer Usage Customer retention …
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All Agile methodologies mostly share the same philosophy expressed in the Agile manifesto, but they differ in terms of the practices, processes and techniques. The Agile Manifesto was signed on Feb 2001 by 17 leading software developers, where the idea is to uncover better ways of developing software through execution and helping or enabling others …
The other day, one of the project managers posed an interesting question: If we plan well in ahead, are we still agile? And the subsequent reasoning was: In Agile, we don’t need to plan in the real sense. I resolved his doubts and also thought of sharing the wisdom with the world. First …
You have completed a few Sprint cycles in the past 5 months, in your project execution to deliver a project or a product. Your features are almost 50% complete. You have yet another 5 sprints to go. Your sprint cycles are of 1 month each. The team is at the peak of its performance. However …
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Image by Ronald Carreño from Pixabay Link to the summarized video presentation: You just completed a sprint and you as a program/project manager know that there is a lot that can be learnt from the just completed sprint. That’s were a retrospective meeting helps. If you are clueless about how to do a retrospective, here are some tips …
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Most Agile Scrum projects start of well with a high velocity, highly motivated team and fast paced deliverables. But then down the line it all seems to recede. However, here the problem is not with the team, culture or morale. They would presumably be in the right place since the whole purpose was being met …
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For many who are implementing Agile, they appear to communicate that they have found a panacea to all project related problems. It seems like they have found a cure for an ailing disease in project management that has myriad symptoms of delayed delivery, scope creep, poor quality, lack of communication with the customer, improper handling …
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