Leading Agile

MAY 23, 2024

Releases take longer and longer. Modernizing applications allows you to take advantage of what the cloud offers and generate savings. This way, you can manage risk and generate returns as you go. Scale What Needs to be Scaled All components are not created equal. Applications have an architecture.

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MPUG

JUNE 11, 2020

It was 18 years ago that Microsoft introduced their initial attempt to move beyond just “project management” and into the world of “ portfolio and project management.” The governance processes which most IT organizations have developed and followed have to adopt to these conditions. What happens when a project is late?

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By APMG International September 6, 2023 Agile project management is a flexible approach to managing projects which involves taking incremental steps referred to as sprints or iterations. Here is a brief overview of its evolution: Before Agile, Waterfall was the dominant project management approach.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We were talking about PRINCE2®, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to the PMBOK Guide. — Today, on our Project Management Methodologies Series, we’re going to interview Elizabeth Harrin, from the award-winning blog A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 12, 2022

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. As a project manager, part of your role is shepherding the work through the project lifecycle. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ? The Idea of a Scrum GPT Exploring Scrum in the real world often uncovers a tangle of anti-patterns—those practices that, despite best intentions, stray from agile principles and hinder progress.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In preparation, we’ve been pouring over this year’s data and we were curious to know what 2023’s top performing Field Notes were. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile? Now, we turn our attention to 2024.

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Velociteach

JULY 6, 2023

Large enterprises and government agencies increasingly turn to Agile for their software projects. This is a difficult shift, with many struggling to fit their new round agile pegs into their existing square waterfall holes. Cultural, structural, and procedural impediments make “being agile” a challenge.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

IT service management (ITSM) is the process of how those services meet the needs of the end users who employ them. Over the course of this blog, we’ll discuss how ITSM is implemented, managed and delivered to meet the needs of an organization and how project management software can help facilitate those processes.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 7, 2023

Since I became a Professional Scrum Trainer in November, I have been asked a lot about the current state, and the future perspectives, for Scrum and agile development in Japan, where I’ve worked for the last six years. Yet, Scrum and the principles of agile development are not as common in Japan as they are in other parts of the world.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.” - Pierre Bonnard. It’s an agile activity which looks like it ought to be a no-brainer for teams…something they’d want to buy into, and of clear value to all. OK, so what’s this “canvas” stuff then? Lessons from a start-up.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide organizations in scaling lean and agile practices. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. SAFe endorses alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 49,000-plus subscribers. ? Integrating with Other Methodologies : Many organizations employ multiple agile frameworks or methodologies. Simplifying or tweaking Scrum elements can help organizations adopt agile practices without being overwhelmed.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Agile by Rini van Solingen and Maarten Kossen was originally published in Dutch. The book starts with a warning that agile is more than a mindset, it is a philosophy, followed by 22 chapters, in which the authors show that it is easy to understand, but very difficult to apply at first. Scrum or agile? Scrum or agile?

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

Jimmy is an Agile coach & trainer based in Stockholm. Before starting his own company “ Agile With Jimmy ”, he worked at Crisp and supported organizations like Spotify, Casumo, KRY in their quest to increase agility. Jimmy is the author of the book “96 Visualization Examples — a toolkit for the Agile coach”.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

There’s been a divide in the Agile community for a while now. On the other side, you have the camp that sees Agile more of a social movement; this side is all about empowering the teams and building a culture or a mindset of Agility. So, how do we get these leadership teams back on board with Agile? ” Why?

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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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Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

1,00,000 practitioners and 20,000 enterprises worldwide have kept faith in one thing to drive Business Agility in the enterprise. . And that’s Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)! . As per the 15th State of Agile Survey, 38% of the respondents considered SAFe as the most popular framework for scaling agile. . What is SAFe?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. Dependencies are the number one killer of Agility. .

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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. A clear way to differentiate between what we are trying to build and what it takes to get there. A System of Delivery is what we typically think about when we think about Agile methodologies.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

One of my favorite exercises from my Professional Scrum Product Owner classes is how to best sabotage a Product Owner as a member of the middle management. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 34,000-plus subscribers. ?? Impose traditional project management tasks on the Product Owner.

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Leading Agile

MAY 9, 2023

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. Is the Agile industry in a rut? Is the Agile industry in a rut? Everyone knows Agile works. It didn’t work.”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 28, 2021

What is PRINCE2? PRINCE2 is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. PRINCE2 was released in 1996 and had major updates in 2009 and 2017.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. Release Planning. Agile Transformation Coach Leaders. Setting Up Team Spaces.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 18, 2020

In this article, I want to clarify the need for agility in modern businesses and what agility in organisational design actually is. The centralised command is delegated over multiple management layers. This complexity is commonly managed by adding coordination roles, which leads to thick management layers. (I

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2023

If you were king for a day, and you could change the hearts and minds of the people inside your organization over night; what would you do next? And would you be able to guarantee those actions would lead to greater Business Agility? It’s not that leaders are anti-Agile. What would you do differently the next day?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 19, 2023

When OpenAI released its new LLM model GPT-4 last week, I could not resist and signed up for $20 monthly. I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT 4 is superior to its predecessor, which left a good impression in recent months; see my previous articles on Scrum, Agile, and ChatGPT. Read on and learn what happened. GPT-3 and GPT-3.5

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 9, 2020

What are the top cities for project management in the world? We looked at hotspots for megaprojects and compared them to the outlook for project management careers. Nationally, 73% report that there is a formal or informal career path for project managers in their organization.

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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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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

When people hear about projects there are a number of functions quickly jumping to mind including providing oversight and coordination, presenting objectives and feedback, facilitating and supporting, providing business direction and insight, providing resources and direction, maintaining governance, and more. It’s a planning artefact.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But what happens when those values aren’t aligned with what the business is trying to achieve? Those are cultural attributes that the people that I was talking to in the agile community were prioritizing for. We were doing a lot with traditional project management. Or does it start with the people?

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Kiron Bondale

MAY 7, 2017

“ Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose ” Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s warning reminds us that it is very easy to ignore the Manifesto for Agile Software Development’s value statements. Tagged: agile project management , Process compliance stupidity.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2018

This means a move away from the predominate way of organizing, managing, and funding work. For small companies, Agile Transformation can be straightforward—since getting alignment can be accomplished by getting everyone in a room and creating shared understanding. The Meaning of Agile Transformation. Agile vs Business Agility.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 15, 2024

When people hear about projects there are a number of functions quickly jumping to mind including providing oversight and coordination, presenting objectives and feedback, facilitating and supporting, providing business direction and insight, providing resources and direction, maintaining governance, and more. It’s a planning artefact.

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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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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. Usually, they assume it will benefit them, and maybe they’re clear upfront on what that benefit is; maybe they aren’t. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right?

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