Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Agile teams are largely self-governing.

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2019 Agile Lean Governance 103

Inloox

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The SAFe method is based on the Lean philosophy and offers a fixed framework in which Scrum and other agile management methods can be scaled to the entire company. The basic concept SAFe divides enterprise agility into three level of abstractions: Team level (Scrum teams). Agile Release Train (ART). Agile Teams.

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Lean Innovation Agile SCRUM 156

Kiron Bondale

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When we think of an agile transformation, improving portfolio management might not be high on the organization’s list of priorities. Agile delivery is not a silver bullet. Tagged: agile project management , Project Portfolio Management , resource availability.

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International Institute for Learning

JUNE 22, 2022

Is there a dark side to agility? The approach many Agile “purists” will expound on is that you must do things a certain way, or if that way of working does not work, you have failed, and it’s your fault. The opposite of agile, thus agilists impose anti-agility practices termed, “agile fragility.”

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Today, we’re exploring what it looks like to transform the way your company finances itself in a new, agile world. Annual funding, long wait times for approvals, and all the read tape that goes along with that, aren’t as agile as the teams are. You still have ROI, you still have budget and actuals. So it’s very similar.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Do you use the Scaled Agile Framework in your firm or organization? Have you heard everyone else is going agile or embracing lean, and you’re not sure what it means? We’ll also explain how they might assist you in incorporating an agile environment into your product development. Who is a Product manager?

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2020

One thing that is pretty evident is businesses are actively exploring ways to build resilience and to quickly adapt to the new normal and this, I strongly believe, is what agility was all along. Towards the Organization : Planning, leading and coaching the Organization towards Agility. Decentralized procurement using agile contracts.

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SCRUM Finance Lean Agile 193

Agilemania

MARCH 16, 2023

Copyrights: © Scaled Agile, Inc. offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. The power of the Agile Team has never been more critical in achieving this. We are delighted to announce that SAFe® 6.0

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Moira Alexander

JANUARY 12, 2017

If you're new to project management and the agile methodology, the answers to these 10 questions will arm you with the information you need to get started. And if you're a project management veteran, these frequently asked agile questions are a good refresher. What is agile? How long as agile been around?

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Wrike

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Agile methodologies have revolutionized the software development industry, enabling teams to deliver high-quality products in shorter timeframes. However, as businesses grow and projects become more complex, companies are faced with the challenge of scaling Agile practices to maintain the same level of efficiency and effectiveness.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2023

Dealing with common business challenges through agility I’ve been helping companies improve their operations for over a decade. You might also call these OKRs, Distributed Leadership, Nimble, DevOps, Lean Startup, or Scrum. They feel bottlenecked, stuck, and mired with more and more legacy and start looking for greener fields.

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Moira Alexander

APRIL 24, 2017

Agile Software Development - goes over fundamental agile concepts to enhance your software development skills. Project Risk Assessment - a self-paced course on how to conduct risk analysis of different projects using both conceptual and practical developments in modern finance. Related Video.

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Planview

MARCH 6, 2020

The answer may not surprise you: “Organizational agility.” Since every organization is different, you need to find your PMO’s optimal path to facilitate agility and deliver strategic outcomes faster. This is important, because achieving agility is not an all-or-nothing transition. Organizations increase agility on a continuum.

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Planview

APRIL 18, 2019

In my last blog, “ Agile Transformation: The PMO’s New Paradigm ” we covered the significance of embracing different types of work and the role that continuous planning plays in becoming an Agile PMO—but that’s only the beginning. Part 4: The Move to Product-Centric Portfolios. Redefine Success. Adapt Your Funding Approach.

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NimbleWork

MARCH 5, 2023

a leading-edge Enterprise Lean/ Agile Planning and Project Management tools company, announced the change of its corporate brand from Digité, Inc. However, they too can benefit from Agile execution where they deliver value to their customers more frequently and get feedback that helps early course correction.

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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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Wrike

JANUARY 6, 2023

Yet there’s another life cycle out there, Agile SDLC, and it presents an effective alternative for software development. It’s becoming increasingly popular, too, as eight out of 10 companies in the software development field have adopted an Agile approach to project management. What is Agile SDLC?

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Planview

APRIL 24, 2020

We also outlined how EPMOs and finance leaders should work together with the C-suite to make the best decisions possible in both the short and long terms: Part 1: Dynamic Planning and Rapid Reprioritization: Resilience Amid Disruption. Annual plans and budgets limit agility – with change happening soon after they are approved.

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Planning PMO Technical Review Budget 125

Planview

MARCH 9, 2021

It became clear to me, and many others, that creating strategic plans in standalone tools such as PowerPoint or Excel don’t keep an organization aligned in purpose, don’t help it adapt to change, and can’t foster agility. Besides, before all this change, we rarely referred back to our annual with any regularity, anyway.

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Planning Lean Leadership Infrastructure 78

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Safe Scrum is a framework that has gained significant popularity in recent years for enhancing team performance in an agile development methodology. It is built upon the foundation of Agile principles and values, providing a set of guidelines, roles, and ceremonies that enable teams to work together seamlessly.

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SCRUM Cadence Development Team Review Software Review 36

Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations.   Agile Transformations. The goal:  Agile transformations move organizations from working with traditional project management approaches to using agile approaches. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 116

Planview

APRIL 24, 2020

We also outlined how EPMOs and finance leaders should work together with the C-suite to make the best decisions possible in both the short and long terms: Part 1: Dynamic Planning and Rapid Reprioritization: Resilience Amid Disruption. Annual plans and budgets limit agility – with change happening soon after they are approved.

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PMO Technical Review Budget Executing 78

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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The Strategic Project Manager

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Practice lean innovation where appropriate. Build strategic agility and dynamic capabilities. Few strategies will work if financing strength is weak when compared to competitors. Cutting costs before establishing the product firmly is another problem. Anti-trust can sometimes be an issue.

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Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Manufacturing Sustainability 98

Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It’s a guarantee of the deep understanding of the latest trends in modern project management, such as applying agile methodologies, CCPM, project life-cycle and theories, experience with different learning platforms and applications (MindTickle, Brainshark). . Pricing: Member: US$405.00. Non-member: US$555.00.

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Technical Review Certification Project Life Cycle PMI 87

Leading Answers

JUNE 14, 2018

Instead, we launch agile transformations, digital transformations and productization transformations.   Agile Transformations. The goal:  Agile transformations move organizations from working with traditional project management approaches to using agile approaches. Transformations are flavor of the month.

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Technical Review Agile Lean Sustainability 60

LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Directly from the customer: Autumn, Finance Manager at an Enterprise company: “The key advantage is the ability to classify and prioritize a full portfolio of work, and to utilize LiquidPlanner as the primary resource or point of consideration for all ongoing projects in our organization. Integration with agile processes.

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Software Review 2022 Software Planning 88

Planio

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

No matter how agile and lean you try to run your projects there are inevitably going to be a lot of people involved in getting you from project proposal to launch day. Project sponsor: The person or group who is financing the project. One very important group of these people are your project stakeholders.

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Influencer Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 286

Meisterplan

MARCH 8, 2018

Then you’re not using Lean PPM! You also need to keep an eye on your resources and finances, and be able to generate clear evaluations or reports with just a few clicks. If you answer yes to one or more of the following questions, you are a candidate for a software spring cleaning. #1 Then your PPM tool might be the wrong one.

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Software Finance Manufacturing PMO 44

Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2016

Finance, social, political. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm. Can Enterprise Agile Be Bottom Up? What Can Lean Learn From Systems Engineering? This is a good start, but it needs to produce actionable outcomes , not just principles, but practices and processes. The Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Complexity and Complex.

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Engineering Software Performance Measurement Finance 28

Kiron Bondale

JUNE 16, 2018

In one of my previous articles I’d written about the need for change across multiple areas of an organization when undertaking an agile transformation. A key enterprise partner is the Finance department and the organization’s model for project funding will have significant influence over successful agile delivery.

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Agile Finance Lean Estimate 179

Workzone

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Acquired by Planview in 2017, Leankit was added to Planview’s productivity suite to attract engineers and maximize Leankit’s lean project management approach which emphasizes optimization and eliminating waste. Non-agile teams won’t find it as useful. This is meant for software development around Agile and Scrum.

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2020 Lean Software Developers Software Development 38

ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2022

That’s obviously geared to certified professionals, but with potential topics ranging from agile, DevOps and hybrid approaches to new project management tools and solutions the conference should have something for everyone tasked with managing projects. Agile & Beyond. Agile is not new. Agile 2022. When: May 24-25.

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2022 Technical Review PMO Underperforming Technical Team 283

Henny Portman

MARCH 3, 2020

It explores the need for experimenting in ‘controlled’ spaces with a blended approach of design thinking, lean startup and an agile way of working. As you move from ideation to execution, there are five key areas that you need to focus on in scaling up your new venture: market, product, process, organization and finance.

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Technical Review Innovation Sustainability Finance 15

Scoro

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Agile project management relies on building, refining, and improving a project as it goes along. The primary advantage of Agile approach: Offers room for flexibility rather than forcing you to follow a “step-by-step” methodology. When to choose Agile methodology? When to choose Agile methodology?

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Prince2 Lean Software Review SCRUM 98

Scrum.org

JULY 28, 2018

Does your Finance Department discourage Agile software development because it would all be charged to operational expense? I have yet to be involved in an Enterprise Agile Transformation wherein we didn’t discuss concerns about how to expense projects that do not have the big upfront phases for documentation and design.

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Lean Finance Software Developers Software Development 72