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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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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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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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

JULY 27, 2023

It baffles me how some agile teams, who claim to be the pioneers of modernity, are living in archaic times where usable working products are as rare as unicorns! Just a heads-up, my dear agile practitioners: the linchpin of Agile is a Usable Working Product. Automation is king in Agile. Yes, you read it right!

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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. And let me give you three strategies.

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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 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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here, the process of crafting a Sprint goal is unravelled. Assessment and Planning Sprint Goal - "By the end of this sprint, we will have identified all dependencies, potential challenges, and the migration strategy for each application." Create a Cadence of Accountability. Act on Lead Measures. Keep a Compelling Scoreboard.

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created. Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. Definitions Assumptions are things we know we do not know.

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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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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

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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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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NimbleWork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A retrospective meeting, often associated with agile methodologies like scrum and kanban , is a crucial opportunity for a team to reflect on their recent work and identify areas for improvement. Retrospectives should ideally be done at a regular cadence. However, what happens if your team does not find them engaging or useful.

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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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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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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. Conflict resolution strategies: These are tactics that team members can utilize when disagreements arise.

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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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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. With a standardized set of processes, practices, and metrics, enabled by a PMO, the executive stakeholder would not have faced the “it does not exist” situation as previously mentioned. PMO Definition. Types of PMOs.

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

We’re honored to republish this blog post ‘Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing’ by Andrea Fryrear which was originally published in the Agile Sherpas blog! But, for teams that chafe under the strictures of the Scrum process, Kanban can be a freeing alternative. Make Process Policies Explicit.

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Proofhub

JULY 23, 2020

According to a Collab Net report , 97% of respondents are using Agile development methods. For engineering teams, Agile is second nature and often the chosen framework for teams. However, Agile can also be incredibly useful for other functions within a company, including marketing teams. What is Agile? Try ProofHub !”

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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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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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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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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Agile transformations are hard. People are starting to draw the conclusion that “Agile doesn’t work.” While this kind of “Agile laboratory” environment stems from good intentions (we certainly don’t want to set a team up for failure), it is not very useful from a hypothesis testing standpoint. What happened?

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Wrike

MAY 23, 2023

Agile methodology has emerged as a dominant approach to software development as it offers several advantages compared to traditional methods. In particular, Agile ceremonies represent a fundamental part of the Agile methodology and play a vital role in improving the value of sprints.

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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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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile. Lifecycle phases describe the required process steps from inception to delivery. On agile projects, the product owner represents the customer. Agile projects are fundamentally different.

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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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Planview

AUGUST 30, 2018

To adopt continuous planning, you must have a robust portfolio management process—you want to ensure you’re staying focused on the right things. You must have the ability to take any changes, adjust your annual plan to encompass them, then feed them back into your overall planning process, and this process should be seamless.

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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 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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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

APRIL 20, 2021

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

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