Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Agile methodologies promised transformative value but, in many large enterprises, Agile has become commoditized—a standard process that teams follow rather than a strategic driver. We’ll begin with a return to agile’s core principles, focusing on team autonomy, feedback loops, and iterative delivery.

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

Agile has been around for a while now, but many firms still see agility as a software development solution. It’s no secret that agile software teams see all sorts of performance gains. . But the truth is that Agile frameworks work wherever we need to optimise learning and adaptability. Agile frameworks help us do that.

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Planview

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. This included incorporating Agile processes and other work methodologies into its traditional project portfolio management (PPM) processes, to help speed delivery of new products and services.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The concept of self-managing teams is not just a characteristic of Scrum; it is one of the foundational principles of the Agile Manifesto, where the term “self-organizing teams” is used (note that discussing similarities and differences between self-organising and self-managing is an unnecessary detour in the context of this article).

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. We talk about the goals of going agile.

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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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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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Digite

MAY 26, 2017

The concept of Agile Release Train is central to understanding the constructs of SAFe and to implement them. The Agile Release Train is the primary value delivery construct in SAFe. An Agile Release Train typically consist of 50-125 people. Principles governing the Agile Release Train. So, what is an ART?

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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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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. However, it need not be the case.

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Herding Cats

JULY 12, 2017

In the Agile world the phrase deliver early and deliver often is good advice. Agile developers like to toss that phrase around as an alternative to having a plan for the delivered value we'll replace planning and estimating with early and often delivery. So do we pick a Capabilities Release or a Cadence Release?

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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.” While this kind of “Agile laboratory” environment stems from good intentions (we certainly don’t want to set a team up for failure), it is not very useful from a hypothesis testing standpoint. What happened?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 8, 2023

He worked at Spotify around 2012 when they were pushing the boundaries of scaling agile and experimenting with new organizational designs. The question we ask ourselves in this article is, "To what extent is Kniberg's graph still relevant to improving the performance of large-scale agile team collaboration?".

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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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Henny Portman

MARCH 15, 2019

ambler and Mark Lines are the creators of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and the authors of the book Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery – a small Agile Team’s journey from Scrum to Disciplined DevOps ( 2 nd edition). Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) is one of the four elements of Disciplined Agile (DA).

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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. Norms are the unwritten rules that govern how team members interact with one another.

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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. Shorten feedback loops by leveraging the cadences.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Agile development and product development are aligned with business strategy through LPM, driving value to customers with products and solutions. Business agility can be improved by combining LPM and agile development practices. The leadership team facilitates periodic reviews to achieve enterprise agility: 1.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 4, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework wasn’t exactly what the authors of the Agile Manifesto imagined 20 years ago when they set out to define a better way of building software. But that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve greater Business Agility with SAFe. SAFe thinks it’s THE way to do scaled Agile when it’s actually just one way to do it.

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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! Instead of using timeboxes to govern their work, as a Scrum team does, a Kanban team uses WIP limits. Origins of Kanban.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. . In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile. Alan is a frequent keynote speaker and thought leader.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. It’s time now to move forward to the next level of proficiency in software delivery; what we might call “post-Agile.” Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces.

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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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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile.

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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. To download: QRC (Leadership for agility, 200725) v1.0.

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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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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. Dependencies always limit business Agility.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

This is Mike Cottmeyer's talk from AgileIndy 2021 on The Executive's Guide to Why Agile Transformation Fails. Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from AgileIndy, 2021 on “Why Agile Transformation Fails.” So I got involved with agile back in like 2003 and I was working in this company called CheckFree.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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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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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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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2019

Agile was designed to work in a particular organizational context. It was designed for a certain kind of governance. When you learn how to do SAFe and you learn all the stuff about SAFe, all the different roles and cadences and things like that, you are learning a System of Delivery. So, System of Delivery. Very different.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

was launched by Scaled Agile Inc. in 2016 as a method to help organizations scale up their existing agile practices. But isn’t that also the reason behind organizations adopting Scaled Agile framework in its glorious entirety? What was the need for Scaled Agile Inc. What was the need for Scaled Agile Inc.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies With plans, approvals, and risks out of the way, it’s time for the fun to start.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And that’s typically how I think about a lot of the talks that I give because everything in the agile communities about doing it and learning from it and sharing with people and getting feedback and figuring out how to do it better and that kind of stuff. Systems are a Predictor of a Balanced Culture Okay, fair enough.

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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. Right agile is is such a big buzzword and It's It's, you know something I looking at you on the screen here. Don't mess with my sprint.

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Herding Cats

JULY 16, 2017

There are not specific to Agile Software Development. Agile teams, for the most part, are a fixed set of resources, so the spending plan is essentially Flat. Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Agile is a participant in Risk Management, but Agile is NOT Risk Management. .

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