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PM College has upped its agile game over the last few months. We now have a full suite of offerings across a variety of agile approaches: Scrum , XP, Kanban , Lean, and different ways to combine them for success, including SAFe or agile certifications. As I reviewed our course offerings, I became curious and followed a link to the requirements for PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) certification. Filed under: Agile , PMO. Agile PMO MORE

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Recent Posts Sputnik and Delayed Gratification Grace under pressure Being accountable as a customer SAP SME Portfolio Précis Podcast Link — Enterprise IT: Inside an SAP customer Recent Comments Tweets that mention … on Grace under pressure Paul Ritchie on About Paul on About Bob Tarne on Waterfall, Agile, now … Bloggers Bug –… on Being responsible for our own… Google Page Rank Waterfall, Agile, now “Sim&# ? MORE

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Organizational agility defines today’s most admired and innovative project-driven organizations. The wrong person in the wrong role costs real money. Studies suggest bad hires cost 250% of the role’s salary. In other words, a bad $100K hire will cost you $250K! And when it comes to the cost of a bad project manager, look at it this way: , what was the size of your last failed project: $1 million, $10 million, $100 million? You win the talent game with the best talent. MORE

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Filed under: Agile , Innovation , IT Strategy , PMO , Portfolio Management , Project Management Tagged: agile , Innovation , IT project management and portfolio management , IT Strategy , PMO , Portfolio Management. Agile Innovation IT Strategy PMO Portfolio Management Project Management agile IT project management and portfolio management As a CIO, you have either made – or heard – recommendations to create an IT project management office. MORE

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Dan Ackerson at Boost Agile (@boostagile, HT Craig Brown @brown_note)) posted on what he calls “cross-dysfunctional” development teams. My take: this is another demonstration of why agile development has to be more disciplined than waterfall, not less. Filed under: PMO Tagged: agile development , Boost Agile , Dan Ackerson , Test Management , Testing. PMO agile development Boost Agile Dan Ackerson Test Management Testing MORE

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PM College has upped its agile game over the last few months. We now have a full suite of offerings across a variety of agile approaches: Scrum , XP, Kanban , Lean, and different ways to combine them for success, including SAFe or agile certifications. As I reviewed our course offerings, I became curious and followed a link to the requirements for PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) certification. Filed under: Agile , PMO. Agile PMO MORE

Dan Ackerson at Boost Agile (@boostagile, HT Craig Brown @brown_note)) posted on what he calls “cross-dysfunctional” development teams. My take: this is another demonstration of why agile development has to be more disciplined than waterfall, not less. Filed under: PMO Tagged: agile development , Boost Agile , Dan Ackerson , Test Management , Testing. PMO agile development Boost Agile Dan Ackerson Test Management Testing MORE

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Nice collection of agile “objection” answers, though I’d be a bit kinder to the resisters. RT @bobsarni, HT @brown_note) Agile Doesn’t Work For…: Ever run across these guys? Filed under: PMO Tagged: agile , Bob Sarni , Craig Brown , Mythbusters , Organizational Change , resistance to change. PMO agile Bob Sarni Craig Brown Mythbusters Organizational Change resistance to change MORE

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Nice collection of agile “objection” answers, though I’d be a bit kinder to the resisters. RT @bobsarni, HT @brown_note) Agile Doesn’t Work For…: Ever run across these guys? Filed under: PMO Tagged: agile , Bob Sarni , Craig Brown , Mythbusters , Organizational Change , resistance to change. PMO Craig Brown agile Mythbusters Organizational Change resistance to change Bob Sarni MORE

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NOTE: My colleagues at PM College passed along the news that PMI is changing its PDU requirements. This post is adapted from our email to our customers. MORE

Did you know that these top performers used agile techniques more often than other organizations? This use of agile, iterative, and incremental methods drove better organizational agility. In turn, this better agility allows for faster and more effective responses to competitive, technological, regulatory, or other external challenges. Agile principles have a been a lifesaver on a number of my projects and programs. MORE

The same principle applies to agile adoption. I’ve found that while agile is supposed to get an organization away from “command and control,” it’s often implemented from the top down, with a catechism, and all heretics are burned. Someone, somewhere, gets the bright idea to go agile…and everyone has to follow along. Of course, agile is just like any other change program from which you expect transformative results. MORE