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. It’s a participative learning event.

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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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Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

This was a conversation with my friend Matt about his new role as a software leader in a billion-dollar organization. For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. When you no longer work with an employee, you often become friends.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Here are some fun facts: The first company founded to provide software products and services was Computer Usage Company in 1955. Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance.

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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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Herding Cats

MARCH 7, 2016

In our Software Intensive System of Systems world, we are not 5 people sitting around the table with the customer building a warehouse management application for our privately help gadget making company. But Agile at Scale has a different paradigm than Agile at the Table. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach.

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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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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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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 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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Herding Cats

JULY 27, 2017

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. Agile and Incremental and Iterative Development and Deployment. The same is true of any agile development of enterprise IT product or service.

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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. So, this idea is SAFe Agile. That’s how Agile was designed.

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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

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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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Updating project management software to keep their team on track 9. During this phase, there’s a lot of box-ticking and governance to ensure everyone understands their ongoing requirements. Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team.

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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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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

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Project Management (#APM). Governance (#Governance). Risk Management (#RM).

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Herding Cats

APRIL 5, 2016

There a popular notions in the agile development world that authors like Hayek and Taleb speak to how software development works. You Can’t Understand Agile Without Understanding Hayek. He was not a program manager of engineered to order software intensive system of systems. Let's look at one example. Of course not.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

What is SAFe agile. Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile.

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

Everything from putting people back on the moon, developing new therapeutics and software, or planning a wedding. More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 20, 2018

An unattended software delivery pipeline frees technical staff to spend more time on value-add activities rather than tediously performing repetitive tasks by hand, such as. They asked a software developer what it would take, and he estimated something like 20,000 pounds over several months. Building software. Automate why?

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. Especially when they released the Sixth Edition, giving this agile guide. As I was introduced, I was a software and programming instructor for many years.

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