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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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Dependencies will stop Agility dead in its tracks. In the presence of dependencies, you’re never going to achieve the level of Agility you desire—unless you do something about them. Theoretically, you could have two teams that meet most of the criteria of an Agile team. And that limits our ability to be Agile.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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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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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Business agility is what organizations are looking for; agile software development may be one enabling factor in achieving it, but it isn’t the point of a transformation. Half-Agile Transformations.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Hierarchy and traditional leadership stereotypes often from more military inspired, command and control structures, were strictly adhered to. That is why agile change and project management approaches are so popular. Issues like discrimination were prevalent and the knowledge or desire for inclusive strategies was absent or ignored.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. The cadence of development of multiple teams.

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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. A controlling PMO plays a role in project compliance to standards and/or regulations, and it ensures conformance with various governances and associated frameworks. PMO Definition. Traditional Roles of PMO.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. Those numbers that matter, the Agile Metrics. Starting Our Agile Metrics Engines. There is a nice and exhaustive set of controls for the plot. I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. There is a reason the scatterplot looks chaotic.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 12, 2023

Goal setting is an essential tool supporting agility in complex environments. 4: Let go of the illusion of control. Even though I help agile teams to learn about and embrace uncertainty, I need to remind myself regularly to let go of trying to have control. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals .

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework has taken the corporate world by storm. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework: What is it?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

No sustainable agility is achieved. Consider how predictable the listed variables are, how much control you actually have over them and how sure you are that you listed all of them. Even if a parameter is known, the level of detail may be too deep to be able to manage and control it. Think of your work, make a list.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. To be a valid experiment, certain variables would need to be controlled. But what about changes to the team’s way of working (WoW)?

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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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Planview

JUNE 1, 2021

It can be challenging to expand Agile practices beyond IT and development teams. Planview is committed to helping our customers with this transition and to that end, Chief Product Officer Patrick Tickle and I recently presented a webinar on “ Leading an Agile Transformation.”. First, why scale Agile in the first place?

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! They are merely visual control systems. She also shows you how to design your first Kanban Board, with examples. Origins of Kanban.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 18, 2019

The topic of Agile Metrics inevitably comes up in many situations and conversations. Those numbers that matter, the Agile Metrics. Starting Our Agile Metrics Engines. There is a nice and exhaustive set of controls for the plot. I have been hiring Scrum Masters lately. There is a reason the scatterplot looks chaotic.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

ESSENTIALS FOR AGILITY: TEAMS, BACKLOGS, AND WORKING TESTED PRODUCT. At LeadingAgile, we have distilled the concepts of agility down to the very essentials: Teams, Backlogs, and Working Tested Product. The fundamental unit of agility is a stable, cross-functional Team that has everything it needs to deliver.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Every day organisations are starting and failing with business agility, praise and blame Scrum. But learning about empirical process control, Values, Principles, essentials elements and rules of Scrum doesn’t guarantee your success. They are accountable for delivering done working products every cadence and satisfy customer needs.

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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. I’m not talking about SAFe.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” When curating that pilot, it is tempting to tee it up in a way that controls for organizational context and all the messy variables that come with it. Those organizations that invest the blood, sweat, tears (and money!)

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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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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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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. Completely in line with his own adage “Trust is good, but control is better!” Rhythmic learning – learn through a cadence of recurring interaction moments.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Showing up with intention and our purpose in mind allows us to realize a greater impact by avoiding common roadblocks such as: Getting stuck in knowing-and-controlling behavior. It allows us to avoid roadblocks. Depending on just our own experience and discounting the ideas of others. Making assumptions and judgements.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

But Agile at Scale has a different paradigm than Agile at the Table. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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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. The degree is a balance between control and efficiency. On agile projects, the product owner represents the customer. Agile projects are fundamentally different.

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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. Conducting a meeting: make the path visible and start down it and control the dialogue.

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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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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . Soundcloud. – Yeah. When did we first meet?

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

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. Likewise, there are defined, repeatable IT projects that can (and have been) successfully managed using meticulous planning, detailed estimation, and formal change control procedures.

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quantmleap

JUNE 24, 2015

H aving been ‘doing’ both Waterfall and Agile for quite some time now I feel fairly qualified to point out the idiosyncrasies in both approaches. The scenario I’m referring to is as follows: An organization with long and established ‘Waterfall’ methodology and way of working is convinced to give Agile a go.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

Agile projects typically prioritize the backlog based on business value or perceived needs. Later in 2006, I wrote about  risk adjusted backlogs  and  Agile Risk Management , explaining how to insert threat avoidance and threat reduction activities in the backlog. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog?

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2019

This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit, and a Scrum Master’s greatest challenge often lies in coaching teams to value each Scrum event as an inspect and adapt opportunity. This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit either.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

I don’t spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn, but the other day, I was scrolling around and happened to catch a thread where some folks in the Agile community were debating if SAFe was actually Agile. In short, it really comes down to what you mean by Agile and Agility. One of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

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