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Agile project teams that skip demos put their outcomes at risk – for each sprint as well as the overall release. The reason that is often given for not having …

Most agile project management models have a key role called the Product Owner. Here’s how strong product owners can make agile projects successful. The product owner ensures agile project teams …

3 Steps to delivering high-value projects, why you should stop doing more with less.  “We must do more with less.” This over-used phrase is often heard in organizations that recently …

Starting use of agile methods to deliver projects will pose challenges to any organization new to agile. Organizations that start by providing a common basis for training their teams, their …

During some recent work with a client company that is new to the use of Agile frameworks for managing technology projects; the client’s author and a manager set up a …

Agile practitioners often bring differing points of view on their sizing scales for feature and story point estimating. It is important for scrum masters, product owners, and teams not to …

In environments where everything is a top priority, nothing is a top priority. A key responsibility of senior leadership is ruthless project prioritization, leaving no doubt as to the organization’s …

One of the things I’ve been saying about project management for a very long time is that it needs to be able to scale down. Over the long term, senior …

Interested in finding out about the impact of co-location on productivity? Some articles have discussed the unpopularity of open office concepts while pointing out the increased productivity of remote workers. …