Advice for Program Managers: 6-Quantified Agile for Hardware
Applying Agile methodologies to Programs that include hardware development.
Organizational Leadership
Advice for Program Managers: 5-PMO Role
PMO behavior to achieve Program Management effectiveness specialized to its environment managing PM practices in the organization, including PM development and advancement and connection with organizational management.
Advice for Program Managers: 4-Program Management Specialization: System Programs Phased Methodology
PM Best Practices and Core Program Structure for Hybrid integrated programs using Phased HW – Agile SW, mixed-technologies. Full-Program agility via automated plan tools with continuous plan update.
Advice for Program Managers: 3-Program Management Career Skills
Career path thinking for Program Managers including skills and behaviors that develop Program Manager capabilities and leadership and pave the way toward advancement.
Advice for Program Managers: 2-Program Management Career Path
Describes career path thinking for Program Managers including sourcing, progression, advancement, and connection with organizational management.
Advice for Program Managers: 1-Program Management Opportunity
Introduces a vision and framework for development of Program Managers and PMO, for Program Management specialization to its environment, and for improved effectiveness and integration of PM with organization operational management.
This Month’s Agile Interview Corner Features Alexander Frumkin Talking About Psychological Safety
This interview was conducted and written by SVPM Scrum Team program volunteers, Katie Karp and Meghana Panth. Executive Editor, Donald …
Our Story at ASVPM & SVProjectManagement.com
For some time, I wanted to share the story of how we started the journey at ASVPM and where we …
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Database Platforms for Program Management Logistics
I’ve released several new distributions of PowerOpI Tools, each focusing on a different Database platform: PowerQueryTool, SQLServerTool, and MSAccessTool. PowerQueryTool …
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Project Optimization and Agility
Project and schedule optimization is collaborative activities with the leaders mindfulness to scope, time, and cost considerations, aligned with all stakeholders’ buy-in. Adding cross-functional human resources into the optimization formula makes our approach more challenging. In scheduling we aim to predict the completion of tasks in the future, considering many constraints, uncertainties, and risks. Project management employs many techniques and methods to estimate the scope of work and to optimize the process of deliverables!
This is a story in creation; a group of Agile-minded volunteer PPMs who get together to build an Agile PPMs publishing platform using a hybrid of Agile frameworks.
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 …
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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 …
Complex Programs: Structure
Phased and Agile development program methodologies can be used together effectively, meeting objectives of each, by managing synchronization between them …
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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, …
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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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What is happening on SVProjectManagement.com?
You may have noticed a new look and feel as well as updated content. David Bakhtnia (Sponsor) and Donald Stringari, …
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Project and Program Management Insights
Below is highlights of conversations of a group of senior technical and professional Project and Program Management leaders gathered together …
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How to manage starting a business with your husband or significant other?
Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – author of TimePeace: Making peace with time – and I am a business …
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