Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile. I think there’s an interesting challenge in our industry, too, that the Agile community has been fighting for a long time to be allowed to be empowered. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”. Inspection.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Ultimately, as Scrum Masters, we have the best shot at influencing others and achieving our goals when we show up: Connected to our purpose. We can be proactive in our approach, reducing the time between seeing issues and influencing others so we can avoid them or minimize their impact. Open and curious. How to show up for your team.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 12, 2023

Goal setting is an essential tool supporting agility in complex environments. Various A-B-C formulas lead us to believe it’s a straightforward process, but setting and using goals effectively is challenging. Goal setting is a process. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals . Practice helps!

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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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. Typically, these agreements serve as more than just a formality.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

No sustainable agility is achieved. One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. The degree of dynamism of a problem or activity requires the right forms of process and stability to be in place in order to have some form of control.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The team’s size, maturity, tenure, and proximity influence the ease of coordinating their efforts. Existing organizational assets, such as tools, templates, and standard practices, influence the Plan. 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

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 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

OCTOBER 6, 2019

When used as designed, OKRs can have a massive positive influence on organizations. Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

IT leaders driving the business are working with (not for) other leaders to continuously deliver value, manage on-demand, architect process change for business growth, becoming strategic advisors, and navigate through technology changes. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business.

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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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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is true whether our organization uses a stage-gate approach, an agile approach, or some hybrid of the two. Their influence was believed to be essential for the creation of great works and the advancement of civilization. Agile teams deftly or clumsily dance to avoid potential pitfalls and emerging issues. Challenges abound.

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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. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. Another example is how the Scrum guide separates activities from events: Events have a clear time-box, cadence, subject and participants. How about hierarchy, supplier or collaboration?

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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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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

How do Agile teams create a project schedule? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional). The ‘scheduling’ part of a project schedule should be a collaborative process. Better resource management: With your schedule, you know why you need the resources you do and can lobby for more early on in the process.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While we all want to see into the future of project management trends, these current industry ideas are sure to influence project management teams for months to come: Improving communication across blended teams. Embracing Agile as a means to combine strategy with output. A continued concentration on Agile methodology.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 20, 2019

No sustainable agility is achieved. One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. The degree of dynamism of a problem or activity requires the right forms of process and stability to be in place in order to have some form of control.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Finding the weaker processes in your workflows enables you to apply a fix—maybe it’s time for an additional hire in that department. Read: How to find the best resource planning tool Factors impacting agency utilization rates Agency utilization rates are influenced by many internal and external factors.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile. There’s a belief that executives are the number one obstacle to successful Agile transformation in organizations.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Value-system Influences. Both are heavily influenced by value-systems. Introduction.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. Process-wise, the Product Owner is accountable for effectively managing the Product Backlog, thus “owning” the product on behalf of the organization. Those two are natural allies.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? The Scrum Team may refine these items during this process, which increases understanding and confidence. Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile. ). ?? Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum team has variable Sprint cadences.

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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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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. According to the Association for Project Management : “Project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience to achieve specific objectives, according to defined acceptance criteria, within agreed parameters.” Getting approval for new projects 4.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile ). Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences. Stage-Gate® by DoR: The Scrum Team decides that a definition of ready is advantageous but handles it dogmatically, thus creating a stage-gate-like approval process. Or it is not free from outside influence.

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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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Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

To realize this ambition, a transformation was initiated that aimed at implementing a uniform agile way of working with independent, integrally responsible customer journey teams. It covers three organizational design phases: Org scan of the pre-agile setup before August 2021. Org scan of the 2022 dVM pilot.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

For many project managers, the process of communicating progress has become an annoying weekly task. Check the status of tasks in your current milestone, download Agile charts , or consult your Gantt chart to quickly see (and report) on your progress. But just using project status reports isn’t enough. Target it to those who need it.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). 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). Management Processes. Project Performance Management (#PPM).

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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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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

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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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Processes describe the inputs, tools, techniques, and outputs used to execute project activities. A toolkit is a collection of techniques and practices used within the project processes.

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