International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. Business agility mindset begins with a mental shift. I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Agile is a broad term, and there are many ways to look at it. From a strategic project management perspective, this post examines some key agile methods and there impact of strategy and project management. An Agile Methods List Overview. Are there more agile methods? Applicability of Each Agile Method.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

LPM also known as Lean Portfolio management, refers to how senior leadership uses lean principles and systems thinking approaches to align strategy with execution. Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

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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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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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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 directive PMO exerts highest power and has the ability to initiate and/or terminate projects in an organization. With this background, let’s proceed towards the concept of Agile PMO. PMO Definition.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. Velocity is stable, defects released into production are down, backlogs are full and well-prioritized, but adoption of new features is poor, revenue from new products is slow, and stakeholders are still waiting for the delivery of key initiatives. Strategy and Epics. What happened?

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The Strategic Project Manager

JUNE 28, 2022

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram. Project vision – At initiation of the project, there is a vision for what the project is to accomplish and produce.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. What are Agile ceremonies? A ‘quick-start’ guide to the 5 Agile ceremonies.

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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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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. Hold Teams, as well as overall organization, accountable for producing a working tested increment of product on a regular cadence. Dependencies always limit business Agility. It involves more than just IT. It requires the entire organization.

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Planview

AUGUST 30, 2018

Having a regular cadence that allows you to measure value against new demand is incredibly valuable, as it isn’t disruptive when measured against the annual plan and allows you to forecast on a regular basis. Well, for one, you will receive the gift of time , as becoming more agile will increase your organization’s productivity.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint—just to name a few.

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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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Leading Agile

MAY 11, 2021

In today’s environment, organizations are striving for business Agility, or else they risk being put out of business. In today’s blog, a continuation of the first in this two-part series, we’ll talk about building trust and influence, and initiating the trust-influence loop. Delivering on a regular, predictable cadence.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2019

This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit, and a Scrum Master’s greatest challenge often lies in coaching teams to value each Scrum event as an inspect and adapt opportunity. This can hardly be described as the right agile spirit either. Perhaps there still needs to be something like a Sprint Review after all.an

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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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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

However, this interaction will require the use of new technology and strategies to manage it properly. Embracing Agile as a means to combine strategy with output. In 2022, companies will need to ensure that their teams are Agile and fast-moving. A continued concentration on Agile methodology.

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Wrike

JUNE 15, 2023

Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate. Use Agile systems to boost productivity: Agile tools such as Kanban boards allow you to set your teams up for success. This data can inform new strategies and tactics to raise performance levels.

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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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Scrum.org

MAY 16, 2024

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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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

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. Pod leaders will give Pod updates, executives will often present a thematic company strategy and introduce larger, company-wide initiatives.

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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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Planio

AUGUST 1, 2022

For most development teams and startups, ‘becoming Agile’ starts and ends with how you build software. But a full Agile transformation isn’t just about the development process you use — it’s a way to bring creativity, innovation, and lean operations to every aspect of your business. Jump to a section: What is an Agile transformation?

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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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Redbooth

APRIL 26, 2018

If you work in tech or any industry where things change fast, you probably are familiar with agile project management. Agile methods are baked into productivity tech, from Trello to Airtable to Redbooth, and can improve any large body of work, from ad campaigns to app design. Agile project management basics: project as product.

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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. The Product Owner is familiar with the six levels of agile planning: product vision, product strategy, product roadmap, release planning, Sprint Planning, and Daily Scrum.

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Making sure that projects align with the overall business strategy and goals. But over the years, project managers have learned to follow a strict project lifecycle, which helps them manage every step of the journey, from establishing initial goals to handover and closing.

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Digite

AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2015, in a blog post called Kanban Cadences , David Anderson laid out a set of 7 Kanban cadences or meetings that provide comprehensive opportunities for feedback, planning, and review in an enterprise. In my experience, 3 of these are critical for ensuring that a Kanban initiative gets off the ground successfully.

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Digite

AUGUST 17, 2017

While Kanban was meant to be initiated at the middle management level, Enterprise Services Planning is meant for executives and senior management. He highlights this with the adoption path for Kanban cadences (meetings) as to how Kanban is bottom-up and inside-out approach whereas ESP is the top-down and outside-in approach.

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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. The new strategy should make the bank more customer-centric and enable them to get better, faster, and more effective at delivering value to customers.

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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. Okay, got it.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 11, 2019

Intended audience: Scrum masters, Product owners, Managers and Agile coaches. I was successful with optimising for feature size that could be delivered in a two-sprint cadence. This approach is ideal to get a cadence from the influx of new features to done, closing the empirical process control loop from design to delivery.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Strategy (#Strategy). 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 (#MP). Project Performance Management (#PPM).

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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. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc.

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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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