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Article Agile, Portfolio Management, SCRUM 1 December 2018

Project Management Journal

Portfolios of Agile Projects

By Sweetman, Roger | Conboy, Kieran While agile approaches can be extremely effective at a project level, they can impose significant complexity and a need for adaptiveness at the project portfolio level. While this has proven to be…

Article Agile, SCRUM 1 June 2017

Project Management Journal

Agile Methods on Large Projects in Large Organizations

By Hobbs, Brian | Petit, Yvan Agile methods have taken software development by storm but have been primarily applied to projects in what is referred to as the "agile sweet spot," which consists of small collocated teams working…

Conference Paper Agile, SCRUM 26 October 2014

The mystery behind project management metrics

By Shell, Reed D. Understand how to transform data into metrics can be helpful to the project management practitioner. Metrics on a project are important indicators as to the health of the project, and they provide…

Conference Paper Agile, SCRUM 26 October 2014

Being agile within an existing delivery environment

By Caseley, Stephen This paper demonstrates how traditional tools, such as Microsoft Project, can provide full support for scrum/agile projects. You will see how you can leverage your existing investment in project…

Conference Paper Agile, SCRUM 29 July 2014

Project management process models as antecedents for job satisfaction

By Yang, Siwen | Lechler, Thomas This study analyzes conceptual differences between two well-known software development models, Scrum and Waterfall (e.g. agile, and non-agile) as a foundation to compare employee job satisfaction.…

Article Program Management, Scheduling, Agile, SCRUM June 2014

Project Management Journal

A hybrid approach to quantitative software project scheduling within agile frameworks

By Jahr, Michael In this article, the authors focus on the quantitative project scheduling problem in IT companies that apply the agile management philosophy and scrum, in particular. The authors combine…

Conference Paper Agile, SCRUM 5 May 2014

Bridging corporate and agile worlds in a large-scale SCRUM IT project

By Zimmermann, Thomas | Heyder, Patrick Implementing Scrum practices in a large corporate environment can be a challenge. Here, a case study about a three-year IT project involving 400 people, 85 sprints, and 5,000 user stories…

Conference Paper Program Management, Agile, SCRUM 29 October 2013

Transitioning to agile

By Carilli, James F. Written for business and IT executives, program managers, project managers, Scrum Masters, and acquisition professionals this paper provides effective strategies for a successful transition from…

Article Agile, SCRUM, Information Technology May 2013

PM Network

Learn before you leap

By Lang, Toby Transitioning to an agile process like Scrum can be challenging. This article reports how one project manager's organization transitioned to agile quickly and notes how the organization failed to…

Conference Paper Agile, Program Management, PMO, Estimating, SCRUM 24 April 2013

Agile processes

By Casanova, Pietro For a long time, the traditional project management approach has been questioned due to the large number of ailing projects. Moreover, due to market globalization and related growing organizational…