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Building With the Right Scope in Software Development

Project Management Planet — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:59:48 +0000

In this article from chapter 4 of Specification by Example, author Gojko Adzic explains how to work together with business users to come up with the right stories and that the key idea to achieve that is not to start with user stories but with business goals and derive the...

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Learning from Mistakes: the Optimization Journey at ManyChat.

Project Management Planet — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:18:19 +0000

Get a transparent view of Manychat’s optimization journey. This presentation is about sharing successes, failures, and key learnings through small group activities to analyze and reflect on the evolution of their optimization goals over three years, illustrating the impact of these goals on their product strategy and organizational growth. Video...

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Open Source Retrospectives Tools for Remote Scrum Teams

Project Management Planet — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:00:39 +0000

In the Agile world, bottom-up continuous improvement is the new mantra that replace the (rarely done) postmortem reviews of traditional project management approaches used in software development. Today, distributed Scrum teams with remote work are more common than you might think, despite the fact that Agile methods favor local teams....

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Building Resilient Software Development Teams

Project Management Planet — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:08:30 +0000

This presentation explains how mindfulness enables software development teams, and individuals, deal with stress and cope with burnout. Mindfulness helps us to think more clearly, remain focused and handle challenges with more ease. You will learn practical techniques to build resilience and apply mindfulness in project teams, as well as...

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The Best Agile Metrics That Don’t Suck

Project Management Planet — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:11:27 +0000

In the immortal words of Peter Senge, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” So, you need to measure things, and measure them well. And you need to measure the right things too! This video shares the best Agile metrics. Metrics on employee happiness, theoretical value, and work...

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Keeping Software Soft – A Practical Guide for Developers, Testers and Managers

Project Management Planet — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:15:47 +0000

Why should we keep software soft? Because software should be easy to change. This is how this book from Jason Roberts starts. In the first page of the book Keeping Software Soft – A Practical Guide for Developers, Testers, and Managers, he writes “If you want to make developing software...

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From Good to Great: Agile Team Facilitation

Project Management Planet — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:02:28 +0000

Working in collaborative, self-organizing Agile software development teams can be challenging. It is important that all team members understand the group dynamics involved and how to effectively facilitate these sessions. In this highly interactive and experiential workshop, you will learn how collaborative workshops can be planned, organized and run; and...

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People as the Source of Business Agility

Project Management Planet — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:40:41 +0000

Successful Agile businesses such as Spotify and Netflix have become the example for those on a business agility journey. The secret ingredient they all share… people… more specifically, a mission built around people. The Agile Manifesto states we value individuals and interactions over processes and tools. So how come we...

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Project Management: Waterfall, Agile & Hybrid Approaches

Project Management Planet — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:38:31 +0000

This video outlines three main approaches to software development project management: Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid. When planning and executing a project, it is important to make sure you are using the appropriate Project Management methodology to best meet your project objectives. Things to consider when determining an approach include time...

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Book Review: Managing Software Debt

Project Management Planet — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:35:47 +0000

With the adoption of Agile approaches for software development projects, technical debt has become a trendy term for an issue that exists since the beginning of programming. Software debtis what happens when you neglect, consciously or not, the long-term quality of your software to achieve other usually short term benefits....

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