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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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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Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. It’s been three weeks since I joined a team of highly experienced Agile coaches. The VP stated the Agile teams were in ‘chaos’ since being taught the concept of Lean Agile portfolios. Needless to say, it was about me. What is trust?

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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

MAY 17, 2021

Velocity, while seemingly a simple measure of team output, is quite often one of the most misconstrued metrics by organizations new to Agile ways of working – by both managers and the teams themselves. I recently revisited this concept with a client while fielding a question regarding re-pointing stories mid-flight.

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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. . How do you like fix it? Soundcloud.

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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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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Use Agile systems to boost productivity: Agile tools such as Kanban boards allow you to set your teams up for success. A project management template is usually a document or spreadsheet that provides a basic framework with guidance on how to complete a specific task or project.

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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. The post generated a lot of good conversation, so I thought I’d take a minute and share how I think about this. What is Agile?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We take pride in being fearless, adaptive, sustainable, and egalitarian, and we admire attributes like integrity, respect, teamwork, and passion for continued learning. . The Pods meet on an agreed-upon cadence, and everyone in each Pod knows that they can reach out to other Pod members for questions, help, and a friendly voice.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Below, our expert-led guide with real-world insights goes deeper into what agency utilization rates are, how they’re calculated, why they matter, and how to optimize them to help drive agency growth. Agency utilization rate measures how effectively your agency’s resources are being used.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? How do we get our executives to have more confidence than fear in the changes we’re trying to make? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? At seven years old, I learned how to program on a PDP-8. That’s what the Agile Manifesto says, right?

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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. ? If changes become acute during the Sprint, the team will collaboratively decide how to handle them.) Maybe, someone knows how to save the Sprint Goal, provided it is still useful? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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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

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.” Sustainable Pace. Stable Team. Team Spaces.

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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. ?? If changes become acute during the Sprint, the team will collaboratively decide how to handle them.). Maybe, someone has an idea on how to save the Sprint Goal, provided it is still useful? The Purpose of the Sprint.

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Velociteach

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As a professional bassist, he uses jazz metaphors to illustrate how to build supportive and effective team cultures. So that book was about what I learned from playing in small ensembles, and how it would mimic the concept of agile work as a project manager. So he reaches out to an old professor to teach him how to do that.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we have to figure out how to balance the two points of view. 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.

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Planio

MAY 24, 2018

From what exactly they are, to clear examples, tips for writing them, and how to implement them at your company. How are OKRs different from other goal-setting exercises? How to adopt OKRs for your company. But to run a sustainable business, we need to keep costs under control. Is the OKR adaptable and agile?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Here are presentations and paper on how to do that in a variety of domains. . Management Processes (#MP).

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MPUG

JUNE 1, 2022

Especially when they released the Sixth Edition, giving this agile guide. And they say, well, you know, if all else fails, you could try this agile guide as well. You’re trying to come up with a process oriented like you could see even an equation that tries to solve how to connect those dots. Ultimately, how to tailor.

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