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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

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Business agility is similar to the agility we observe at the team level, but it extends across the entire company. Companies want business agility to outperform their competitors. This blog describes how Business Agility can be achieved with Product Management by moving up on the Org Topologies™ map.

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To Fix Your OKRs – Go Back to First (Familiar) Principles

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OKRs aim to help you execute effectively on what matters most (your strategy), while overcoming silos, politics and turf wars , the ongoing grind (aka whirlwind ), and other management challenges. Figuring out the right Cadence . The right cadence also provides an opportunity to reinforce/communicate strategic priorities and focus.

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How Usable Working Products Are Your Ultimate Weapon Against Risks

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It baffles me how some agile teams, who claim to be the pioneers of modernity, are living in archaic times where usable working products are as rare as unicorns! Just a heads-up, my dear agile practitioners: the linchpin of Agile is a Usable Working Product. Automation is king in Agile. Yes, you read it right!

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11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics

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Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. Join the free virtual BarCamp of the 27th Hands-on Agile Meetup on October 1, 2020. Stakeholder Communication Channels During an Agile Transition.

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How to Set and Achieve Effective Sprint Goals

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Teams can amalgamate information on the product's strategic direction, the product owner's current tactical direction, and ongoing engineering aspects. Assessment and Planning Sprint Goal - "By the end of this sprint, we will have identified all dependencies, potential challenges, and the migration strategy for each application."

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

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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Getting to 85 - Agile Metrics with ActionableAgile

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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. The heart of this plot are the percentiles that are calculated automatically - these are the core of Agile Metrics.

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