Velocity and Sprint Burndown Chart
Agile team leverages metrics as a reflection of how the scrum team delivers products through current Agile practices. Metrics are …
Pair Technique Encourages Collaboration
Introduction The essence of pairing can be found in Ecclesiastes 4:9 -12 NIV: “Two are better than one because they …
Learn Together with Creative Agile Masters at SVPM
Getting to Know SVPM Have you ever wondered after learning a new Project Management concept “I wish there was an …
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PowerQueryTool
In previous posts I’ve mentioned that I’ll make available a tool that implements the quantitative methodologies I’ve described. This tool …
Quantitative Management
As Marcus Lemonis (CNBC “The Profit“) says, “If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business”. There are …
1,2, 3….Post IT! A fun, cost free, and collaborative way to host your next Product Backlog Refinement Ceremony
Being an experienced Scrum Master and Product Owner I have found gamification during the time of COVID-19 is very important …
Scrum: How do You Reach the Transformation of Trust?
How can a set of simple values and principles work together to help project teams resolve unknown complexities, manage continuous …
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Complex Programs: Structure
Phased and Agile development program methodologies can be used together effectively, meeting objectives of each, by managing synchronization between them …
Managing Complex Projects
Discussions of Agile describe non-Agile methodology as the evil “Waterfall” – but that’s not how non-Agile-Methodology projects are really managed, …
Utilizing Pair Programming as an SVPM Scrum Team Member
As an SVPM Scrum Team member, I joined the group PBI (Product Backlog Item) to install, design, and develop a …
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From Waterfall to Agile: Making the Process Match the Way People Really Work
Imagine that you must predict what you will be doing exactly 10 months from now. You must plan what work …
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Scrum Volunteer Experience with SVPM amid COVID
Over the last six months, COVID-19 has impacted all of our lives in one way or the other. In the …
Agile Product Lifecycle Management
Agility is a mindset manifesting in many forms and techniques, all aligned with incremental value add to what we are accustomed to doing/performing.
When you collaborate with a virtual team and keep it thriving
Being a volunteer with the SVPM team has been a superb involvement for me. My background is mostly in customer …
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My first professional network in the US was SVPM!
I learned from interviewing for a consultant position in San Francisco, that the Agile Framework/Scrum methodology was an important skill …
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PMI Silicon Valley Meeting of Feb. 7, 2020
Today we had our second annual breakfast meeting of PMI Silicon Valley chapter in Sunnyvale. A few of our attendees …
Executive Imperatives: Necessary Ingredients to Improve Organizational Performance
A widespread desire to improve organizational performance may be sated by focusing on a key set of executive imperatives—necessary and …
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Agile Is Confusing! Really?
So you were promoted as a project manager some years ago. You have also educated yourself on (PMI’s) golden triangle …
