Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions — and Exceptional Agility subsidiary — CEO Scott M. Graffius delights audiences around the world with talks and workshops on AI, Agile, Innovation Project Management, and more. He uses everyday language and vibrant custom visuals to make complex topics clear and understandable, and he provides audiences with practical information they can use. His sessions are highly rated by attendees and organizers alike. Conference organizers, businesses, professional associations, government agencies, and universities around the world invite Scott to speak. He’s present ..read more

Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions’ https://Exceptional-PMO.com website was named to FeedSpot's list of Top 10 PMO RSS Feeds. Images from the listing follow. A zoomed-out view of the listing is shown above. The above image shows a zoomed-in view of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions' placement on the listing. About FeedSpot FeedSpot — a Technology, Information, and Internet related company — provides a content reader and more. It enables users to read their favorite blogs, news websites, and RSS feeds from one place. FeedSpot also offers a suite of products such as RSS Reader, Brand Mo ..read more

This article was first published at ScottGraffius.com. Content reproduced here under license from Scott M. Graffius. Introduction Informed by the research of Bruce W. Tuckman and Mary Ann C. Jensen, over 100 subsequent studies, and Scott M. Graffius’ first-hand professional experience with, and analysis of, team leadership and performance, Graffius created his ‘Phases of Team Development’ as a unique perspective and visual conveying the five phases of team development — Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, and Adjourning — inclusive of a graph showing how performance varies by phase ..read more

Scott M. Graffius — expert agile practitioner, consultant, thinker, creator, multi-award-winning author, and international speaker — was a member of the Review Team for the Scrum Alliance Global Scrum Gathering New Orleans 2024. Graffius and other members of the Review Team scored abstracts of proposed sessions for the conference. The resulting final program will engage attendees through high-quality learning experiences and more. Graffius is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions and subsidiary Exceptional Agility. About the Scrum Alliance Global Scru ..read more

Scott M. Graffius—Founder and CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions, and subsidiary Exceptional Agility—has presented 87 talks and workshops at conferences and other events across 25 countries. His newest (88th) engagement will be at the W Love Games Conference in Helsinki, where he'll present “The Science of High-Performance Game Development Teams” on October 13, 2023. Graffius’ talk is informed by his first-hand work with video game development teams as well as research and coverage from Activision Blizzard, Gameloft, International Game Developers Association, Microsoft, Rockstar Games ..read more

Businesses, professional associations, governments, and universities have used and featured Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions Founder Scott M. Graffius and content from his books, talks, workshops, and more. Examples of organizations include Microsoft, Oracle, Broadcom, Cisco, Gartner, Project Management Institute, IEEE, National Academy of Sciences, United States Department of Energy, Yale University, and many others. Erste Group Bank AG — a financial service provider serving 15.7 million clients in Central and Eastern Europe — was added to the list of organizations as it featured Graffius ..read more

Scott M. Graffius—Founder of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions—has delivered 86 talks and workshops at conferences and other events across 25 countries. His newest engagement will be at the Conf42 Quantum Computing 2023 Conference, where he'll present “What Successful AI Teams Have in Common.” The talk draws from his work on AI projects as well as research from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Google, IBM, IEEE, Microsoft, MIT, Software Engineering Institute, United States Artificial Intelligence Institute, and many others. The conference also includes talks b ..read more

Scott M. Graffius — Founder of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ and Exceptional Agility™ subsidiary — has delivered 84 talks and workshops on agile, project management, and technology leadership at conferences and other events across 25 countries. His newest engagement will be at SKILup Days, an online conference presented by the DevOps Institute. Graffius will deliver "The Science of High-Performance Teams” on April 26, 2023 to a global audience of DevOps Engineers, Developers, Software Engineers, Testing and QA Experts, CI/CD Engineers, Heads of DevOps, Cloud Engineers, and others int ..read more

Scott M. Graffius — Founder of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ and Exceptional Agility™ subsidiary — has delivered 84 talks and workshops on agile, project management, and technology leadership at conferences and other events across 25 countries. His newest engagement will be at SKILup Days, an online conference presented by the DevOps Institute. Graffius will deliver "The Science of High-Performance Teams” on April 26, 2023 to a global audience of DevOps Engineers, Developers, Software Engineers, Testing and QA Experts, CI/CD Engineers, Heads of DevOps, Cloud Engineers, and others int ..read more

Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions first reported on the most valuable Information Technology (IT) certifications in 2017. As technology advances and the marketplace changes over time, the skills and knowledge required to succeed may also change. Accordingly, we periodically update our related reporting. The prior version was published in 2022. This article provides the new, 2023 version. In Technology, there's no substitute for experience. However, certifications remain a valuable tool for advancing one's career. Employers want candidates (and employees) with up-to-date knowledge and skills ..read more