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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 3, Incremental Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Teams can get some feedback from one feature set to inform the next set—but that's not a primary lever. That's because these lifecycles normally complete one feature set at a time. Once the team has an idea about the architecture, the team starts working on the highest priority feature or feature set.

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Use Decision Deadlines to Plan for Product Deliverables

Johanna Rothman

Many organizations ask teams to forecast when the team can deliver a feature. (Or Instead of feature deadlines, we have decision deadlines. Realize that an agile culture starts with the questions the managers pose and the answers they need. You have much better insight into those decisions. Or finish a project.)

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Professional services firms have always known this, given that profits depend on their ability to provide specialized insights and solutions you can’t get anywhere else.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

When teams collaborate and focus on creating running tested features that work, the teams make real and fast progress. Your customers only care about running, tested features. See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I had the phone.

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

As a result, project managers can make informed decisions, identify and mitigate risks, and achieve better project outcomes. Managing resources AI makes resource management much more effective, especially for large organizations where hundreds/thousands of employees are involved in projects.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. In this article, we’ll provide a high-level overview of where the professional services industry is right now – and what current conditions mean for project-based organizations.

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Agile Milestone Criteria for Projects and Programs

Johanna Rothman

You've got interdependencies across the organization for a given project or program to release a product. You need enough insight or prediction to start the marketing campaign or to create training videos or product documentation. Agile and Lean Program Management , and in Create Your Successful Agile Project.

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