This page contains the most recent articles from the Agile Project Management Academy.
What is an Enterprise-level Agile Coach? There are very different Agile Coach roles and when people use the term “Agile Coach” it is often not exactly clear what role that they are referring to. Typical Team-level Agile Coach Role Most often, what they’re talking about as an “Agile Coach” is what I would call a […]
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I recently saw a LinkedIn post from someone who was requesting advice on managing conflict in Agile teams. One response was to remove the people who are causing the conflict from the team. That may not be an appropriate solution – some level of conflict is necessary and healthy in a high performance team A
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Are corporate culture and values really important? Here’s an example. A few years ago, a controversy was brewing in the Boston area over the “Market Basket” grocery supermarket chain. “Market Basket” is a chain of about 71 grocery supermarkets in New England that generates about $4 billion in annual revenues – it has been a
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The Product Owner role in Agile is not well understood and it can be confusing to understand how it relates to a typical project management role in a traditional, plan-driven environment. In my opinion, the Agile Product Owner role is actually a hybrid of some elements of a Product Manager role and some elements of
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What’s the difference between a project and a process? I have a very broad view of “project management” but there is a danger of broadening the definition too far. If the definition is broadened too far, almost anything could be “project management” and that would make it meaningless. For example: Is an effort to provide
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What is a Project? What is a project? I recently wrote a blog post on “What is Project Management?” that has generated some good comments on LinkedIn. One of the comments was that “the change is not merely to redefine ‘project management’ but to redefine ‘project’”. That is absolutely correct. PMBOK defines a project as follows:
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There’s a lot of confusion on the subject of “What is Agile Project Management?” and how is it different? I’ve even heard some people in the Agile community say that “there is no such thing as Agile project management”; because officially, there is no defined role for a project manager in an Agile/Scrum environment. I
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I came across the diagram shown below that I think nicely summarizes different levels of mastery in Agile: Many people don’t seem to realize that there are these three different levels of mastery. Just learning the basic practices is only the beginning. Levels of Mastery in Agile The three levels of mastery are: 1. Practices
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Will PMBOK ever be compatible With Agile? For the past 5-10 years, I’ve been working on developing an Agile Project Management curriculum. This started out as a graduate-level Agile Project Management course at Boston University and then morphed into a full, seven-course training curriculum that is now offered on two different training platforms plus a
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Background What is the next generation of project management? What is the impact of Agile on the future of project management? What Is the Next Generation of Project Management? In order to understand this future direction, we first need to understand the impact that Agile is having on the project management profession. Here’s an article
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