The standard for project management

  

Index

Project vision, 49

Project work, 7

Proof of concept, 22

Prototyping, 15, 22

Q

Qualitative measures, 60

Quantitative risk analysis, 37

R

Rational unified process (RUP), 149

Reaction time, 66

Refactoring

blending approaches and, 31

defined, 153

Regulatory environments, 36

Relative estimation, 67

Remote pairing, 46

Requirements

addressing all, 39

culture and, 75

feature burnup/burndown charts and, 67

iterative exploration of, 15

missing, 60

predictive life cycles and, 20

prototypes and, 22

uncertainty and, 13, 14, 16, 22, 24

Response time, 64

Retrospectives, 27, 50–51

defined, 153

key times for, 51

product knowledge and, 83

Return on investment (ROI), 30, 61

Reviews, demonstrations and, 55

Rework

reduction of potential, 23

risk of, 13, 14

Risk(s)

customer-supplier relationship and, 77

fixed-price increments and, 77

high-uncertainty projects and, 7

hybrid life cycle and, 29

part-time assignments and, 45

uncertainty, life cycle selection and, 13–16

Roadblocks, organizational agility and, 74

Roadmap, product, 52

ROI. 

See

 Return on investment

Role(s)

agile teams and, 40–41

project manager, 37

temporary specialists and, 45

Rolling wave planning, defined, 153

RUP. 

See

 Rational unified process

S

SAFe

®

. 

See

 Scaled Agile Framework

®

Safety, environment of, 75

SBE. 

See

 Specification by example

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe

®

), 153

Scaling, 80

Schedule performance index (SPI), 69

Scope creep, 28

Scope items, in- and out-of, 4

Scrum

collaboration and, 80

defined, 153

framework for, 31

Scrumban, 153

Scrum board, 154

Scrum Master

defined, 154

Scrum framework and, 31

Scrum of Scrums, 154

Scrum team, 154

Self-management, 36

Self-managing teams, 39

Self-organizing team(s)

case example, 43

defined, 154

financial institution example, 44

project managers and, 37

standups and, 54

Serial life cycle, 17. 

See also

 Predictive life cycle

Servant leader(s)

characteristics of, 34

chartering process and, 49, 50

facilitation and, 35, 52

organizational impediments and, 35

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project managers using, 38

responsibilities of, 34, 36–37

role of, 33

Servant leadership

agile teams and, 39

defined, 154

project managers and, 38

team empowerment and, 33–38

Service(s)

delivery of, 35

PMO and, 82

Service request manager, 154

Siloed organization

cross-functional teams and, 47

defined, 154

Single loop learning, 154

Skills, interpersonal versus technical, 36

SMEs. 

See

 Subject matter experts

Smoke testing

defined, 154

value delivery and, 56

Social contract. 

See

 Project charter

Social media, 2

Software development

Agile Manifesto and, 8

agile practices and, 2

learning and, 61

thought leaders in, 8