Scrum.org

JANUARY 8, 2024

They know that Scrum practices and values are key to that. 2. They leverage Scrum to enhance market position, drive revenue growth, and improve operational efficiency, thus aligning agile practices with broader business objectives. This customer-centric approach drives most of their strategic decisions.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. This approach stifles agility and innovation, leading to a feature factory mindset that focuses on executing predefined plans rather than adapting to change.

Technical Review 180

Technical Review Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Sustainability 180

Scrum.org

AUGUST 24, 2023

Additionally, utilizing a Likert scale, which offers a range of responses from strongly agree to strongly disagree, can provide more nuanced insights into employees' perceptions. The Likert scale serves as an excellent example of a measurement tool. The Likert scale serves as an excellent example of a measurement tool.

2023 158

2023 SCRUM Innovation Energy 158

The Lazy Project Manager

MAY 25, 2021

Modernizing PPM: A Practical Four-Step Roadmap to Accelerate Agility. It also marks the launch of Peter’s new book: Make Your Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management and Adapting to the ‘New Normal’. Four steps your PMO can take to accelerate PPM agility, outpacing the competition.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 28, 2023

Business Leaders face a key challenge when scaling their organisations effectively while maintaining the distinctiveness that made us successful in the first place. Unique DNA of Success: Every successful organisation has its DNA, a unique combination of values, culture, and practices contributing to its achievements.

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Innovation Sustainability Agile Software 154

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 15, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM The quest for methodologies that offer efficiency and agility has never been rockier. Agile methodologies stand at the forefront of this quest, providing the blueprint for rapid, responsive, and customer-centric project execution. Agile methodologies offer a path to mastering these challenges.

Software Review 52

Software Review Technical Review Agile SCRUM 52

Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As businesses evolve, there's an underlying pressure to adapt, innovate, and revamp. You've rolled out policies that seemed innovative on paper. Could your organization only change on the surface without addressing deeper, more impactful challenges? Organizational change can often seem confusing and directionless.

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Technical Review Innovation 2008 Finance 141

Scrum.org

AUGUST 7, 2023

Explore a series of carefully curated collections of essential books, newsletters, podcasts, and tools to elevate your agile expertise. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? TL; DR: The Minimum Viable Library for Scrum Masters The Minimum Viable Library is available!

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Henny Portman

APRIL 26, 2022

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers. The twelve principles are expanded including (portfolio) practices.

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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. Scaling Agile Frameworks.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

By Dr. Elissa Farrow March 20, 2024 Leadership futures are where change is not a challenge but an opportunity. As we open our organisations to leadership’s next generation, it’s clear that the future belongs to those who champion collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and adaptability.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2020

Completing an Agile Coaching certification doesn’t make you an Agile Coach. Just to be clear, this bare-bones guide isn’t the only way of becoming an effective Agile coach but does contain enough to give you a solid foundation so you can be useful, effective and deliver a ton of value to your clients and the organisations you serve.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 21, 2023

Explore a series of carefully curated collections of essential books, newsletters, podcasts, and tools to elevate your agile expertise. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 48,000-plus subscribers. ? Get notified when the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book is available ! ? It’s a classic.

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Sustainability SCRUM Software Developers Software Development 153

Scrum.org

JANUARY 31, 2023

I was an analyst for Forrester research on a panel at the Agile conference in Orlando. After the conference, I bought Eric Ries’s book - Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Scale - Also known as Customer Creation and Building.

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Lean SCRUM 2016 Executing 233

Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 23, 2024

Continuous improvement, or Kaizen, has revolutionized business practices since its inception in post-war Japan. This method has driven companies to new heights of efficiency and innovation, enriching every facet of project execution - from planning to evaluation - and boosting effectiveness and adaptability.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review 2024 Innovation Sustainability 52

Leading Agile

MAY 16, 2023

What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? Video Transcript Agile is a way of enabling work cells in that factory. But what is the factory?

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Engineering Agile Software Review SCRUM 69

International Institute for Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

IIL’s 6th annual Agile and Scrum Online Conference: Co-Create for Greater Value opens on June 3, 2021. Agile has become one of the hottest topics in the project management world, mainly due to its proven success in software projects and its ability to deliver quick and real value to customers. Agile Transformation.

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2021 Fractional CTO Agile SCRUM 98

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?

Software Review 52

Software Review Agile Governance Government 52

Scrum.org

APRIL 13, 2023

Dealing with common business challenges through agility I’ve been helping companies improve their operations for over a decade. A repeating pattern is where a very successful company is facing growing pains affecting its ability to scale to the next level.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

But as companies scale, as the market shifts and more parts of the business become software-focused, there’s been an increase in demand for an end-to-end solution to help large organizations build infrastructure around sound technical practices. Career incentives may discourage people from being agile, and then we ask them to be agile.

Software Review 124

Software Review Fractional CTO Technical Review Agile 124

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. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Technical Review Software Review Agile Lean 118

Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

Scrum, agile thinking, modern software development working practices are synonymous with Digital Technology and have evolved out of the fundamentally different characteristics of the opportunity presented by technology. Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 2001 2011 226

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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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 19, 2023

By Alan Zucker Disciplined Agile® (DA) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) are two popular, second-generation agile methodologies. They build on lean-agile thinking, and standard Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps practices. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto.

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Agile Cadence Certification Lean 59

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?

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Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Scrum.org

JULY 2, 2020

These Sirens take advantage of the lack of understanding of what business agility is trying to change and lures unsuspecting C-suite executives into parting with their cash for what is effectively someone else’s business process. They are changing their entire organisation, not because of a business challenge, but because they are told to.

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Lean Agile Innovation Software Developers 200

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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Agile Lean Software Review Technical Review 98

International Institute for Learning

MAY 4, 2021

IIL’s 6th annual Agile and Scrum Online Conference: Co-Create for Greater Value opens on June 3, 2021. Agile has become one of the hottest topics in the project management world, mainly due to its proven success in software projects and its ability to deliver quick and real value to customers. Agile Transformation.

2021 86

2021 Fractional CTO Agile SCRUM 86

Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

We see technology evolving, new tools, consolidation, innovation and more. There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession. Change is inevitable – we all know that. The trouble with trends is that you might not notice they are happening.

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2022 PMO Risk Management Artificial Inteligence 484

Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 20, 2024

Even as an experienced project manager looking to improve your methodology, it can be challenging to tailor your approach to meet the unique needs of every project. by Meredith Malinawan, PMP In the fast-evolving landscape of project management, one cannot merely rely on a one-size-fits-all approach. What is Tailoring?

Governance 52

Governance Government Technical Review Software Review 52

International Institute for Learning

APRIL 1, 2022

Whether you are working in an environment where just a few teams have begun using adaptive practices, or one where the entire company is years deep into Agile transformation, your organization is likely facing various implementation challenges. These challenges often result from a lack of shared understanding.

2022 52

2022 SCRUM Agile Lean 52

International Institute for Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Servant leadership and self-organizing teams are foundational Agile characteristics. Formal Definitions of Agile Teams. The practice of leading through service to the team by focusing on understanding the needs and development of team members in order to enable the highest possible team performance. . By Alan Zucker.

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Agile Leadership PMI Innovation 59

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. Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted.

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2019 Agile Lean Governance 103

Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the realm of software development, the Agile methodology has garnered widespread acceptance for its ability to deliver results quickly and adapt to changing requirements. However, when it comes to large-scale projects, a different approach is needed – enter Less Agile.

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Agile Risk Management Risk SCRUM 36

Binfire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The article also features real-world case studies of small businesses that achieved remarkable scaling through adept project management. This article explores how small businesses can leverage effective project management techniques to scale their operations and increase productivity.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Retail Software Review Construction 88

Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Large organizations face challenges to respond to change with speed and relative ease. From not being able to manage inter-team dependencies to handle multiple sources of requirements to ensuring alignment between teams in both business & technical to delivering an increment or increasing value delivery, the challenges are a zillion.

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