Scrum.org

JULY 6, 2023

This is crystal clear: We cannot continue to coat deep-seated Alpha practices with a thin veneer of Beta innovation and expect sustainable transformation. In summary, Alpha (command & control) has overcome Beta (agile), but it's not a lost cause. What is the crux of the issue? Nimble and adaptable, they ride the waves of change.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Many enterprises struggle with these challenges, but there's a strategic way to turn things around. A Project Management Office (PMO) is a centralized department within an organization that standardizes the governance of projects. You're not alone. Don't let your projects be another measurement of failure.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 26, 2021

In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 20, 2024

Even as an experienced project manager looking to improve your methodology, it can be challenging to tailor your approach to meet the unique needs of every project. by Meredith Malinawan, PMP In the fast-evolving landscape of project management, one cannot merely rely on a one-size-fits-all approach. What is Tailoring?

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 29, 2023

This post looks at the opportunities and challenges of digital technology transformation – and delves into HOW to do it. Organization Structure and Governance – What is our current organization structure? What Is Digital Transformation? The speed of change is fast, and the impact it can have touches many areas.

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Planview

MAY 9, 2023

A PMO can support cost reduction by promoting efficient and effective project management practices, ensuring project investments align with business priorities, and continuously improving processes to optimize resource utilization and minimize costs. But PMOs must be agile and adaptable to be valued business partners. million members.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Instead, you are only allowed to use practices that are culturally acceptable within your organization. Instead, you are only allowed to use practices that are culturally acceptable within your organization. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ??

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2021

This title probably attracted two types of people – people who are wondering what the role of the ancient practice of martial arts has in organizational change management. These learning environments take various formats, but most face similar challenges that Dojos alone cannot overcome—challenges that stop Transformation.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 21, 2024

In this article, we’ll talk about the problems with project portfolio management and the common challenges leaders face. The good news is that all the challenges can be overcome with some planning and a good software solution to underpin management of the portfolio. Hybrid agile organizations manage this really well.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This is the essence of agility - the combination of awareness of the situation with the flexibility to respond. Self-management - As their organizations grow and scale, Leaders often feel growing stress as they become decision-making bottlenecks. Are you feeling a bit left out after reading the Scrum Guide ?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 21, 2022

For the past 20+ years, I have worked with small and large organizations seeking more business agility. For larger businesses, it becomes more challenging. Becoming more Agile for large, well-established businesses is more than just a change for the IT organization; it has wide, sweeping implications.

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Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

1,00,000 practitioners and 20,000 enterprises worldwide have kept faith in one thing to drive Business Agility in the enterprise. . And that’s Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)! . As per the 15th State of Agile Survey, 38% of the respondents considered SAFe as the most popular framework for scaling agile. .

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile? Scrum or agile?

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Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. The twelve principles are expanded including (portfolio) practices.

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Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? Video Transcript Agile is a way of enabling work cells in that factory. But what is the factory?

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 21, 2017

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. We were all set for a big client success and who better than the British Government for good publicity! What have I done?

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Agilemania

MARCH 16, 2023

Copyrights: © Scaled Agile, Inc. offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. The power of the Agile Team has never been more critical in achieving this. Why SAFe® 6.0? Work Differently.

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Incorporating models, methods, and artifacts can transform your approach, thus promoting agility, informed decision-making , and effectiveness. These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects. By: Meredith G.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good?

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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 7, 2024

Discover the importance of organizational governance systems, delve into essential project-associated functions, learn how to navigate the project environment, and ensure you are communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Large organizations face challenges to respond to change with speed and relative ease. Be it monitoring and control, collaboration, stakeholders onboarding, change management, and governance methods, the problems only keep increasing. It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework.

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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Agile delivery does not mandate the use of software tools, but when scaling agile within large organizations with greater numbers of stakeholders, geographic distribution of pods, compliance requirements and similar enterprise challenges, tooling can improve efficiency and effectiveness. Interoperability. Usability.

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Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted.

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Leading Agile

JULY 26, 2023

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, agile methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. Is the Agile industry in a rut? Is the Agile industry in a rut? Everyone knows Agile works.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

There’s been a divide in the Agile community for a while now. On the other side, you have the camp that sees Agile more of a social movement; this side is all about empowering the teams and building a culture or a mindset of Agility. So, how do we get these leadership teams back on board with Agile? ” Why? .”

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 9, 2023

Everyone wants to focus on practices first. We can get trainers to come it, we can get coaches to come in, we can teach practices. Maybe it works sometimes, but in most large companies practices first is never the right way to go. We are orthogonal to the practices and cultures that you’re trying to get to.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 2, 2024

The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The result? Take the first step towards becoming a master of your domain. Because it is.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2020

The underlying philosophy is to obtain the maximum yield for an acceptable effort and to scale this as effectively as possible. It is fast and nimble and can easy out-manoeuvre larger organisations, but it isn’t efficient and it can’t scale. As the situation unfolded, we struggled to fully grasp the exponential nature of it.

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Henny Portman

APRIL 21, 2020

DevOps for the modern enterprise – winning practices to transform legacy IT organizations is a practical book based on the experience of the author Mirco Hering. Every part contains four chapters and at the end of each chapter you get some steps to exercise to make it more practical. The book is divided into three parts.

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Agilemania

MARCH 21, 2023

Copyrights: © Scaled Agile, Inc. These powerful accelerators of value are relevant to all Framework levels, but the challenges differ for each Four new flow articles, Team Flow, ART Flow, Solution Train Flow, and Portfolio Flow, describe applying the eight flow accelerators from Principle #6. Built-in Quality – SAFe 6.0

Lean 52

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Henny Portman

AUGUST 10, 2023

Practical product management for product owners – Creating winning products with the professional product owner stances by Chris Lukassen and Robbin Schuurman is an awesome book for product owners and provides effective behaviors, useful tools, concepts, and techniques to become great product owners. Collaborators are open and transparent.

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Agilemania

MARCH 10, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework is rising in popularity. And to further testify the benefits of SAFe, 37% of the organizations use SAFe as per the 15th State of Agile Report. The path to these SAFe jobs are the SAFe certifications offered by Scaled Agile. . 30-75% Faster Time to market . 20-50% Increase in productivity .

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

By mastering digital project management, you position yourself at the forefront of innovation and project excellence, ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you struggling to manage complex projects in an increasingly fast-paced and digital environment?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2023

And would you be able to guarantee those actions would lead to greater Business Agility? A lot of people believe that Agile Transformation starts with culture because it feels like a culture problem. It feels like there’s resistance to change, and that command-and-control leaders won’t let the teams be Agile. Hey, everybody.

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