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Think top-down and bottom-up for agile transformations

Kiron Bondale

A question which I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start an agile transformation within a company? Without changing existing portfolio intake practices and performance measures (e.g. Without that outcome, it is unlikely that an agile transformation will succeed.

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Agile Finance: How Do You Make a Business Case for Transformation?

Leading Agile

Back in the Summer of 2018, I spoke at the Agile2018 Conference under the topic of “Addressing Your CFO’s Concerns to an Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation.” Return on Investment or ROI is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment. Payback Period.

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Systems Engineering and Software Intensive System of Systems

Herding Cats

Finance, social, political. Technical Performance Measures. Agile as a Systems Engineering Paradigm. Can Enterprise Agile Be Bottom Up? This is a good start, but it needs to produce actionable outcomes , not just principles, but practices and processes. No, walk away, they don't know what they're talking about.

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Decision Analysis - Ordinal and Cardinal Measures

Herding Cats

In our agile software development world, AHP is rarely found. Mathematically, the value equals performance over cost plus time. The risks related to performance, cost, and time must also be considered. The relative measures of these values are Ordinal numbers. This is one role for Story Points in agile development.

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Organizational Culture and Its Impact on Team Performance

ActiveCollab

Often focused on finance or manufacturing, companies that opted for this kind of culture rely heavily on annual business plans and key performance measurements. Creative culture is perfect for smaller tech-industry businesses that rely heavily on agile frameworks. Creative culture.

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Start with Principles, Not Personal Anecdotes

Herding Cats

In the project domain, an estimate is a calculated approximation of some desired measurement. This is usually a cost, a completion date, a performance measure used in a closed loop control system to keep the project GREEN while delivering the needed Capabilities to produce the Value for the customer at the needed time for the needed cost.

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4 Fallacious Reasons to Estimate and Why Those Are Fallacious

Herding Cats

The audit, surveillance, performance reporting, measurement are at the core of all business processes. Agile development works best when there is a trust but verify paradigm. I strongly believe that "agile transformations are not about transforming IT, they are about transforming organizations". Related articles.