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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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we’re addressing a common question in modern project management: Do we need risk management in agile projects? Do agile projects have risks associated with them? So, yes, of course, we need risk management in agile projects. Why is Risk Management in Agile Projects Even a Question? Of course not.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the world of Agile practices, where adaptability and effectiveness reign supreme, two terms often pop up: Right Sizing and Same Sizing. These seemingly similar concepts can make a significant difference in your Agile journey. Flexibility Agile teams often encounter various work items with differing levels of complexity.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. But what if we told you there’s a whole class of DevOps considerations that no one is talking about that’s secretly killing your ability to unleash the potential of Agile? We’ll also discuss the lack of automation.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Kiron Bondale

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. Each agile framework provides its own ceremonies but given that Scrum is still the most commonly referenced one, let’s focus on that framework’s events.

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Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

The goal of adopting Agile is always about achieving the desired business outcome unique to the organization that is pursuing it. And whether you are producing software or some other product, the process can be applied to many different contexts. The Agile mindset can be adapted to fit many industries or businesses.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 24, 2022

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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nTask

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If you have been studying the project management paradigm for a long time then you would know that Kanban is one of the most flexible of the agile frameworks out there. To many of the fans of project management out there in the market, these rhythms are known as Kanban cadences. What are Kanban Cadences?

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Scrum.org

MAY 14, 2020

Tools fail, processes stop, things go wrong. . 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. . Agile frameworks help us do that. Agile frameworks don’t fix your problems.

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Henny Portman

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Alexandra Stokes reveals in her book Empowered Agile Transformation – Beyond the Framework , how large and small organizations have achieved a successful transformation without large consultancies or heavy agile frameworks. An Agile mindset is far more valuable than a purchased framework.

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Leading Answers

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Many traditional project management deliverables have agile alternatives. Yet we rarely see agile communications management plans. Given the high rates of change often experienced on agile projects, we might expect more emphasis on communications to keep everyone on the same page. These are valid questions, so let me explain.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Technical agility is the underlying precondition for process agility, which is the underlying precondition for organizational agility, which is the underlying precondition for business agility. Musical Interlude) Preconditions for Business Agility Okay, everybody, how are you guys doing today?

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The Strategic Project Manager

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This post reviews the basics of agile scrum roles, ceremonies, and their impact on developing strategy and managing projects. Agile Scrum Roles. There are a number of specific regular ‘ceremonies’ that are part of the ongoing agile scrum process. Agile Scrum Ceremonies. Agile Scrum and Strategy.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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Leading Agile

JULY 13, 2021

So if we agree that Agile Transformation is worth talking about, we need a better way of talking about it. You see, over the past 20 years, the general hypothesis has been to train people on Agile methodologies and trust everything else will emerge. The net effect is that we bastardize the process to accommodate the disfunction.

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Agilemania

MARCH 23, 2021

Some Agile experts are not hard-core fans of SAFe. And this makes SAFe more complicated, bureaucratic than the Agile manifesto recommends. They also have this opinion that SAFe is so heavy, maybe it is not Agile at all. Most of us started our Agile journey with one framework, and that is Scrum. Let us dig deeper.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2022

People can use other processes to manage their work toward the OKRs. . This is challenging but satisfying (TIP: Slicing outcomes is similar to identifying a Minimum Viable Product, Minimally marketable features, and Slicing Stories… so your Product leaders and Agile practitioners can help out on this front).

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When asked what an Agile organization is, most people tend to think it’s one that’s built around a certain mindset, or around Agile practices like Scrum or SAFe—or both. But if it were as simple as a mindset or process change, so many Agile Transformations wouldn’t fail. Base Patterns and Tools.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2023

Leveraging the Professional Scrum Master's Role in UX A pivotal role in this process is the Professional Scrum Master. Through their coaching role, the Scrum Master can promote efficient integration of UX design into the development process, enabling the team to create products that deliver maximum value to the users and the business.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. The cadence of development of multiple teams.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Moreover, we'll delve into the specific Flow Metrics that warrant your attention – those metrics directly bearing on your delivery process's efficiency and effectiveness. Flow Metrics are quantitative measures that offer a panoramic view of work progressing through your delivery process. What Are Flow Metrics?

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The Strategic Project Manager

JUNE 28, 2022

This post outlines the essentials of the agile scrum process. It then delves a little deeper into the most important element of the process – the sprint. It then looks at implications of the agile scrum process for project management and strategy. A Basic Agile Scrum Process Diagram.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Very often, a transaction traverses all the architectural layers and is partially processed by components that live in both the front-end and back-end worlds. If those worlds are not connected, then there’s a limit to the level of business agility the IT department can support. Half-Agile Transformations.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 21, 2019

It is easy to say that demonstrating behaviors consistent with the values and principles of the Manifesto is proof of agility but this test leaves significant wiggle room for interpretation and for exception cases which fall through the cracks of the four values and twelve principles. Whether these loops follow a fixed cadence (e.g.

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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. What does an Agile organization look like?

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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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Agilemania

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework has taken the corporate world by storm. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework: What is it?

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. What is SAFe?

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

46% of the organizations reported inconsistencies in practices and processes as their main challenge with agile transformation. Source: 15th State of Agile Report. There sure is an Agile framework called SAFe. SAFe is a scaling agile framework, so referring to it as just an agile framework may not be appropriate.

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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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Kiron Bondale

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

But the steps in Kotter’s model, like PMBOK processes, are not to be followed in a purely sequential manner. . The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation. This is why regardless of the nature of a transformation we need to inject agility into its delivery.

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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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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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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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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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