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Announcing Agile Project Management – The Second Edition

Vitality Chicago

I am thrilled to announce the second edition of Agile Project Management. This is a long overdue update of the book I first published in 2015. And it is the best agile book I’ve written (so far). For a limited time, you can get a copy of the 2nd Edition of Agile Project Management for free. Defining Agile.

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4 Industries That Have Benefited From the Lean-Agile Methodology

Cprime

. “Work smarter, not harder” is a popular catchphrase, as the old approach of working long hours with excessive planning is no longer practical in 2023. Thus, companies increasingly turn to the Lean-Agile methodology as a solution. Thus, companies increasingly turn to the Lean-Agile methodology as a solution.

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Facilitation in Agile Projects

Agile Business Consortium

This means that the Project Manager (as in the case of estimating other tasks in the project) should use the help of an experienced Facilitator in planning workshops. He became a AgilePM® Approved Trainer in 2013 and Facilitation Approved Trainer in 2015 and now teaches others to manage projects and facilitate meetings effectively.

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What Happens to Professors If No One Signs Up for His/her Class?

Managed Agile

My Early Start at Boston University I was originally hired as an Adjunct Professor at Boston University about (10) years ago to teach a graduate-level Agile Project Management course that I had developed for BU. So, I was “swimming upstream” at that time to try to develop an Agile Project Management curriculum.

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The Product Roadmap and the Release Plan

Roman Pichler

What is a Release Plan? A release plan forecasts how a major release is developed. It’s a type of project plan —albeit an agile one—and it usually covers the next three to six months. Release plans come in different shapes and sizes depending on the process used. How do the Release Plan and Roadmap Relate?

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Discovering product development excellence

Think Agile

Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012. Agile 2019 Washington ( Twitter ).

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What Is Value-driven Project Management?

Managed Agile

For many years, project management has been heavily associated with what I call a “traditional plan-driven approach to project management” where the primary emphasis has been on planning and control to achieve predictability over project costs and schedules for delivering well-defined requirements.