Scrum.org

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Moreover, we'll delve into the specific Flow Metrics that warrant your attention – those metrics directly bearing on your delivery process's efficiency and effectiveness. Flow Metrics are quantitative measures that offer a panoramic view of work progressing through your delivery process. What Are Flow Metrics?

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

I’ve witnessed in these relationships the subtle, yet profound impact language and process has on our understanding of ‘evolving’ an organisation from one form to another. To some, the formal term, ‘change management’, often carries a weight that suggests a more top-down and directive process.

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Leadership Artificial Inteligence Cadence 2024 158

Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0. Project Planning meeting.

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Software Review Process Lean Leadership 93

Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Let us dig deeper.

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Agile Cadence Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 98

Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Alexandra Stokes reveals in her book Empowered Agile Transformation – Beyond the Framework , how large and small organizations have achieved a successful transformation without large consultancies or heavy agile frameworks. An Agile mindset is far more valuable than a purchased framework.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 30, 2021

Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. When OKRs are embedded into the inspect and adapt process, the Sprint Review provides a unique opportunity to inspect steps toward Objectives by assessing movements in Key Result Areas, i.e., EBM measures such as: Lead time from idea to delivery to market. About Zen Ex Machina.

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities. A toolkit is a collection of techniques and practices used within the project processes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? Sprint cancellations without consultation : The Product Owner cancels Sprints without consulting the Scrum Team. Moreover, the Product Owner should never abort a Sprint without consulting the rest of the Scrum Team.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Software Review 161

Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Very often, a transaction traverses all the architectural layers and is partially processed by components that live in both the front-end and back-end worlds. If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Technical Review Agile Infrastructure Cadence 118

Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile. I think there’s an interesting challenge in our industry, too, that the Agile community has been fighting for a long time to be allowed to be empowered. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Cadence SCRUM 62

MPUG

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Then, we will dive into the topic of Agile PMO, its relevance, and a number of roles that can be played by such a PMO. With a standardized set of processes, practices, and metrics, enabled by a PMO, the executive stakeholder would not have faced the “it does not exist” situation as previously mentioned. PMO Definition. Types of PMOs.

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Agile PMO Technical Review Cadence 94

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here, the process of crafting a Sprint goal is unravelled. Create a Cadence of Accountability. Process vs. Outcome Goals : Process Goals : Focus on the actions or strategies needed to reach a goal. Lean-agile practitioners thrive on these kinds of challenges, but most teams find daunting. Act on Lead Measures.

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Infrastructure Monitoring SCRUM Cadence 174

Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. Incorporating agile and lean portfolio management offer a path to improving business agility. In the absence of frequent adjustments, spending is fixed for too long, limiting agility.

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Lean Cadence Certification Consulting 98

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Agile working agreement is a crucial component of successful teamwork in the realm of project management. Additionally, we will provide actionable steps to create, maintain, and measure the impact of an agile working agreement. Typically, these agreements serve as more than just a formality.

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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. What does an Agile organization look like?

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Agilemania

JANUARY 19, 2022

Go for the SPC exam only if you truly wish to become a SAFe Program Consultant. If you aspire to become an Agile Coach and then need to lead the SAFe implementation in your organization, becoming a SAFe Program Consultant is the right choice. We’ve broken down the process into 3 steps to help you with the SPC exam-.

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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? What other conceptual gaps?

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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Scrum is primarily influenced by the Agile Manifesto which describes the “Agile” value system.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? Sprint cancellations without consultation : The Product Owner cancels Sprints without consulting the Scrum Team. (It The Product Owner should also never abort a Sprint without consulting the rest of the team.

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SCRUM Technical Review Software Review Consulting 159

Wrike

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an Agile project management framework focused on flexibility, continuous iteration and improvement, and cross-functional collaboration between teams and stakeholders. What is the Scaled Agile Framework? However, it is flexible and can be tailored to fit each organization’s needs.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The agile philosophy is at the core of Product Management. Teams can build products faster and more efficiently by utilizing agile methodologies from the Product Management perspective. Many agile teams can benefit from SAFe®’s alignment, collaboration, and delivery strategies. The inspection makes the process delayed.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 137

Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Agile SCRUM Governance Government 100

Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Gerald is an IT project management consultant; but he also has two degrees in music and is an accomplished bass guitarist. Combining Jazz and Project Management WENDY GROUNDS: Can you tell us, just as an introduction, how you’ve combined your dual careers as a professional jazz musician and as a project management consultant?

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Underperforming Technical Team Cadence Certification Consulting 99

Henny Portman

MARCH 16, 2020

But before Ronald actually gets to work on this advice, he started to work with the Full Control Consulting Group. They helped Ronald to implement Total Efficiency Management with which measurable processes can be accelerated. He sends the Consulting Group away and started with the lessons learned from the Formula I team.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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SCRUM Development Team Review Technical Review Cadence 113

Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile. Lifecycle phases describe the required process steps from inception to delivery. On agile projects, the product owner represents the customer. Agile projects are fundamentally different.

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Planning Technical Review Governance Government 52

Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption.

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Underperforming Technical Team Agile Technical Review Software Review 40

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. I’m not talking about SAFe.

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Sustainability Agile SCRUM Technical Review 111

PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

We also want to announce if you haven't had a chance to come join us at the pm tribe calm please do as for my project managers that are listening out there my agile lists that are listening out there. He's an independent management consultant. Why do you see it as an inevitable collapse of Agile? Don't mess with my sprint.

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Agile Consulting Certification Executing 40

MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

s webinar, Use Agile Project Management with MS Project, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Welcome to Use Agile Project Management with MS Project. Cindy is a Microsoft Project trainer and consultant with her business, Four Pillars of Success and has over 25 years of project management experience.

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Agile Underperforming Technical Team Software Review Cadence 59

Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Consultants will say,  “Oh, it depends…”  and start a lengthy (aka expensive) conversation. It would be easy (and wrong) to classify all construction projects as candidates for traditional approaches, and all IT projects as needing an agile approach. Consider the process of designing a new car or home.

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Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Software Developers 101

Leading Agile

APRIL 27, 2021

For starters, we made Zoom a mandatory part of our interviewing process. It’s easy to say, “Let’s go to lunch or grab dinner,” when you are embedded with a client and working away from home with your fellow consultants on a team. But with the pandemic, our consultants were suddenly all working from home. .

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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

In today’s environment, organizations are striving for business Agility, or else they risk being put out of business. As we mentioned in the previous blog, our strong point of view is that the Business should go first to build trust and trustworthiness, thereby blazing a path forward in which the Agile teams can proceed.

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Influencer Cadence Leadership Executing 69

Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Yet you won’t always have the time or resources to build out a robust plan for every process, action, or workflow. With templates for project management, you can dive into new projects or build out processes from an established blueprint. Once established, you can leverage automation to accelerate progress.

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