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Project Management

Free ‘Going Agile’ ePub for PM, BigData, Analytic or BI Survey Input by Oct., 1st

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I am doing some research to investigate success from a project perspective of the different types of decision support projects and their contribution to organizational performance. Join the effort and get a free ‘Going Agile Project Management Practices Second Edition’ ePub or Kindle book (worth 32 USD on amazon). Project managers, agile coaches, project team… Continue reading Free ‘Going Agile’ ePub for PM, BigData, Analytic or BI Survey Input by Oct., 1st

Project Management

Building a Team with Collaborative Events

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The agile coach has the responsibility to build the team into a self-organizing unit that can make its own decisions and resolve its own conflicts as well as collaborate as a team to deliver the product. Building a team is much more than building a working group. ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ says the… Continue reading Building a Team with Collaborative Events

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Visualization in Projects – Recommendations

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Data visualization can help project teams envision projects progress, success, failure, risks. It enables users to create, view and manipulate data in more instinctive and effective way than with traditional reporting of just two-dimensions of columns and rows. It can be a powerful tool but we need practices in order to succeed with delivering the… Continue reading Visualization in Projects – Recommendations

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Finally here! Updated “Going Agile”

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Since we announced our plans to update “Going Agile” last year, we have now released the updated version. The first edition introduced different agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Feature-Driven Development and practices such as task boards, Kanban boards, and release planning. The second edition adds color graphics and additional field experiences. The book… Continue reading Finally here! Updated “Going Agile”

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Some agileist live in an alternative universe

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I have worked in many different types of projects: large government contract with more than 600 people; small projects with five to seven people; software development projects with fewer than 60 people; client organizations in different industries. In all of my experience, I have never worked on a project where the teams worked with no… Continue reading Some agileist live in an alternative universe

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Collaborative Tools for your Agile and Distributed Teams

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For managing projects in general and agile projects in particular we need to collaborate with project team members, communicate milestones, interact with clients, solve problems, and share folders, project documents, reports and tasks in real time. All this even being distributed around the world. So, the questions are how to manage such a project in… Continue reading Collaborative Tools for your Agile and Distributed Teams