Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

Tech Infrastructure != Many organizations divide their technology stack between front-end and back-end systems and place an API boundary between the two. I’m including all IT resources “in front of” the API layer in the organization’s technical infrastructure. Half-Agile Transformations.

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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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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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Scrum.org

MAY 27, 2021

. . How Agile Practices Enable Remote Working. And last summer’s 14th State of Agile report clearly demonstrated that Agile adoption is more important than ever in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a trend that is set to continue throughout 2021. We know Agile is not just for software teams. 4 – The Review.

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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. The Agile mindset can be adapted to fit many industries or businesses. In the end, this saves time in releasing the product and reduces the number of technical defects that could be present.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 30, 2023

TL; DR: Agile Transformation with ChatGPT or McBoston? This article is another excursion into this nascent yet fascinating new technology of generative AI and LLMs and the future of knowledge work. Or shall we embark on an agile transformation with ChatGPT providing some guidance? I am no longer sure about that.

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 10, 2021

Many organisations wrestle with the seeming incompatibility between agile and release management, and they struggle with release planning and predictable delivery. Without a regular cadence of delivery of working software any belief that you will get a usable increment is misguided at best. Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide!

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MPUG

MARCH 8, 2021

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile.

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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. ? Every activity required to achieve the Product Goal, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, occurs within Sprints. Technically, it is the prerogative of the Product Owner to cancel Sprints.

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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. Scrum Events.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

For example, technology deliverables might be completed in an agile manner whereas change management deliverables such as training collateral get produced in a traditional manner. Are they all being produced internally, or is a vendor responsible for either the agile or the traditional deliverables?

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Nexus group of teams is very similar to the Agile Release Train (ART) construct. Lean/Agile Leadership. Empiricism via working integrated increments every Sprint - System Demo & Nexus Sprint Review meeting a common Definition of “Done”. Nexus Sprint Goal - Program PI Objectives - just at different cadence/frequency.

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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. Owns its technology stack. That’s six Sprint Planning sessions, six daily standups, six reviews, and retrospectives. Has a singular input.

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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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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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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

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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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 this background, let’s proceed towards the concept of Agile PMO. The first question that comes to mind in having a PMO coupled with an Agile approach is this: Is a PMO really needed at all in an Agile setting?

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 4, 2022

It is a container event, which means that it contains all other events, including Sprint Planning, the Daily Scrum, the Sprint Retrospective, and the Sprint Review. The duration of the Sprint is timeboxed to a maximum of one month, establishing a cadence within which the Scrum team works together to deliver value. Conclusion.

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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 vs. Waterfall.

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Scrum.org

MAY 24, 2022

The Sprint Planning meeting happens just once per Sprint, and the same goes for the Review and Retrospective events. I think of the Sprint as the heartbeat of Scrum because it sets the cadence and frequency for the other events. Sprint Review. How the Sprint Review event reduces the need for other meetings.

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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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Scrum.org

APRIL 30, 2019

Organizations look to Agile to overcome challenges. Many organizations struggle in their implementation of Agile and/or their evolution of agile once they start their journey. They use practices, people, and technology to find a way to overcome their disability of delivering value to market too slowly.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Product Owner theses also address the Product Owner’s part in Scrum events from Sprint Planning to Sprint Review to Sprint Retrospective, and the Daily Scrum. 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 Theses.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe's Scrum Master is more of an Agile Team Lead.

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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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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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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In the world of tech, many industry giants such as Google choose to use a management framework known as Objectives and Key Results (OKR). 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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

No sustainable agility is achieved. Sprint is a stable container event that provides overall rhythm and cadence to the opportunities for inspections and adaptations foreseen within a Sprint; Sprint Review, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Originally published at [link].

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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! At its simplest, a marketing Kanban board can start with five columns: To Do, Create, Review, Test, and Done. Creating Your First Kanban Board.

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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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Scrum.org

MARCH 28, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? All the work necessary to achieve the Product Goal, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, happen within Sprints. Hence you may notice tickets queueing in the code-review-column, for example.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Projects using well-understood solutions and technologies require less rigor. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Problem complexity, technical complexity, compliance requirements, and the cost of change factor into this decision. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile.

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