The ability to measure progress is how project managers keep projects on track. Waterfall methodology rests heavily on Gantt charts. But if you’re working in an agile environment, the Gantt chart isn’t the right tool for your iterative approach to…
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What Is Product Management? Put simply, product management is an ongoing process to streamline the planning, production, marketing and other tasks related to the product life cycle. It involves the coordination of cross-functional teams, data, processes, business systems and more….
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Today’s hyper-competitive world can be a tough place for many businesses. Large companies are always looking to produce better products while reducing costs, customers’ needs evolve and the world economy fluctuates at large. In a sentence, your business will face…
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What Is Agile Project Management? Agile project management is an iterative approach that consists of delivering a project through short time cycles called sprints where agile teams plan and execute project tasks. These sprints allow agile project management to pivot…
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Agile principles make up the foundation of agile. Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. This method is based on 12 guiding principles, known as agile principles. In addition,…
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Managing an agile team is a balancing act. Agile teams are self-directing, so what can a team leader do that doesn’t micromanage their team but inspires them to greater heights of productivity? Creating an agile workflow with workflow management software…
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Retrospection is key to understanding and self-awareness. Similarly, sprint retrospective is used by agile and scrum teams along with the rest of agile ceremonies to monitor their performance and manage their work. Scrum works under the assumption that customers regularly…
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Scrum is a framework that allows teams to address complexity. It comes from software development, which is part of agile project management. It’s designed for small teams who are working in what’s called “sprints,” short periods of no longer than…
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The idea of user story mapping can be traced back to Jeff Patton. He literally wrote the book about it, It’s All in How You Slice It, which came out in 2005. Patton is a consultant who does story mapping…
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While agile is relatively new, it has made a big splash in the work of project management. It started in software development, but has since been adopted by other industries that have seen the benefit of agile’s iterative approach. Those…
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Scrum is a framework for organizing agile teams, and its processes and guidelines are excellent for improving team productivity. One reason scrum is so effective is that it clearly defines the different roles of the team. When the roles are…
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“How much detail do we need for our release plan?” This is an important question to ask at the beginning of a software development project, or in the case of a long-standing product team, before the development of a major…
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These days, it seems like everybody is all about doing things agile. That’s largely due to agile’s ability to adapt to change and incorporate customer feedback, both of which are essential in today’s world where technology is constantly evolving, and…
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