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(This is Part 5 in a 5-part series.)
We started this article series asking this question: How much Lean is in today’s Agile?
“Agile” has become an umbrella term that is used…
Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, and Create Your Successful Agile Project. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.
Posts
In Part 1, we focused on lean thinking, so we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed how local variation can enhance a team’s adaptability. In…
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(This is Part 3 in a 5-part series.)
In Part 1, we discussed how when we focus on lean thinking, we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed th…
Posts
(This is Part 2 in a 5-part series.)
In our last post we explored these ideas:
When the organization and the teams explicitly limit their work
Maintain continuous improv…
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(This is Part I in a five part series.)
As the two of us compared notes about clients and their ability to use agile approaches, we realized something that surprised us. Alt…
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PMI and Agile Alliance have joined forces to create an Agile Practice Guide with the intention of building a greater understanding of Agile practices, with emphasis on how Agi…
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This post discusses the development of the new Agile Practice Guide and its fit, alignment, and potential conflicts with other PMI standards documents including the upcoming P…
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I’ve been a project manager/program manager and have taught project management and program management since 1992. I have the gray hair to prove it.
One of my secret tools was…
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Now that the Agile movement has expanded to larger organizations in more industries, we’re seeing a lot of variation. Granted, we’re used to a variety of frameworks, technique…
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This post recounts a working group session held on September 25th at the PMI Global Congress conference in San Diego and its main findings. The workshop was an opportunity for…
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Recently, a team of practitioners with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and cultures has come together to collaborate on an Agile Practice Guide sponsored by Ag…
Videos
Ellen Grove and Janet Gregory have invited an illustrious round of guests to share their experiences and thoughts on how the Agile approach will develop in the near and far fu…
Videos
In this video, Agile Practice Guide team member Johanna Rothman, MS shares a tip on the use of Kanban in managing schedules and tasks.
See the Agile Practice Guide here.
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Videos
A team of practitioners with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and cultures came together to collaborate on the Agile Practice Guide, sponsored by the Agile Alli…
Videos
Members of the team developing the upcoming Agile Practice Guide discuss the importance of agile.
See the Agile Practice Guide here.
See the Agile Practice Guide Initiat…
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Small-World Networks of Autonomy, Collaboration, and Exploration
We hear a lot about “scaling” agile these days. We have frameworks that lumber, scaled meetings that provid…
Initiatives
What is The Agile Practice Guide
The Agile Practice Guide initiative is an important new collaboration between Agile Alliance and the PMI that brings content from both communi…
Experience Reports
As we wrote a book on succeeding with distributed agile teams, we discovered that many of the same agile principles and practices could apply to our writing. We further learne…
Experience Reports
Project Management Institute (PMI®) and Agile Alliance ® partnered to create an Agile Practice Guide. This experience report describes the recruitment of 7 core team members, …
Event Sessions
Too many organizations think they can reap the benefits of business agility with a framework or tools. However, frameworks and tools don't change the organizational culture. I…
Event Sessions
For years, we’ve heard that only collocated teams can use agile approaches. This disregards the roughly 50% of agile teams who already are distributed or dispersed and their s…
Event Sessions
At first glance, the PMI appears a strange partner to work with to create an Agile Practice Guide. Many people see PMI as the source of the plan-driven, big-design-up-front, w…
Event Sessions
Do you have measurement dysfunction on your program? Are you trying to measure teams and extrapolate each team’s status to the program? That doesn’t work. Teams have personal …
Event Sessions
Have you ever seen people use air quotes around the words “agile project” as if they don’t believe those words go together? Or, do you wonder what the five horizons of plannin…
Event Sessions
Are you trying to scale your agile project to a program, a collection of projects with one strategic objective? If you do what you’ve done with one small project, you’ll get b…
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