Agile It!
Issue 15 — November 2018
A monthly agile round-up of the latest tips, tricks, and techniques from around the web!
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For this fifteenth issue of Agile It! (and final for 2018) — we investigate best practices for an Agile PMO. We take a closer look at how agile your organisation actually is, plus a bit of Christmas fun— this and a whole lot more from around the net!
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Insights
To kick things off, we explore five of the best practices for the Agile Project Management Office. Writer Aakash Gupta talks about how challenging it can be setting up a PMO from scratch, it requires: resources, and knowledge of a suitable portfolio tool that unifies peoples, projects and processes. This article examines best practices that can embed agile’s core principles into a PMO blueprint.
A Closer Look…
In this section we take a closer look to see how agile your organisation is. Click below to see if your organisation meets the three criteria questions that Mike Cohn asks…
Here is another article that takes a closer look at 5 effective ways to reduce custom software costs.
Finally for this section, we look at what is the best way to embed agile values into a team culture. Writer Timea Molnar discusses such ways as providing open and honest constructive feedback, transparency and communication.
Bit of Fun
Now it is time for a bit of festive fun, check our gifts for project managers.
OK, And yes, a Christmas song!
Say what, an retrospective that is an agile Christmas Carol? Oh yes!
Enjoy the rest of the year and happy holidays for the festive season. See you all in the New Year!
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