International Institute for Learning
JULY 7, 2022
This family of methods are now commonly known as Agile , and it has been through the formation of the Agile Alliance and the publication of the Agile Manifesto (Fowler and Highsmith 2001). Figure: Parallel paths of ideas development in Agile Environment .
Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
You also need to understand strategies that work before you begin so you can hit the ground running and avoid unnecessary delays or setbacks. In this blog post, we will discuss five key strategies for digital transformation projects. What is a digital transformation strategy?
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Growing Agile
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Moving forward is strategy. The word, strategy, is derived from the Greek word, strat?gia, Strategy is effectively a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim (Oxford dictionary). I believe that there are four aspects to strategy.
The Strategic Project Manager
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Today, it is often imperative to be capable of innovating Business Models – to change and reconfigure value chains. This post provides a framework – far beyond just a product and service innovation – for Business Model Innovation.
Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies
Innovation is both a process and an outcome. The best way to begin innovating your products is by innovating your internal process. We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand. Join Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies, as we assess some case studies to see how to lead with a clear strategy well-defined tactics, and an unbiased understanding of the fundamental question: "why are you innovating?"
Henny Portman
JANUARY 13, 2021
I just came across a new framework that could be positioned on the portfolio level of my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest. COIN is a model designed to help individual stakeholders in an organization to better work together to facilitate a continuous process of innovation.
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Innovation is an important topic these days simply because it is becoming critical to survival – for companies, governments, and people. Innovations are usually not completely new, a single stroke of genius, or just about a product. Innovation from a Strategic Perspective.
Proofhub
AUGUST 19, 2020
8 Most Important Business Strategies to be Aware of in 2020 Businesses are not run blindly, you have to set your own set of goals that you want to achieve effectively to thrive in the market. What is the Main Focus of Business-level Strategy? How Do You Create a Business Strategy?
The Strategic Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Lean innovation management originated from startups, but is applicable in helping bring a startup mentality to a variety of types of organizations. Let’s start be defining lean innovation. What is lean innovation, and why is it important? What is Lean Innovation Management?
The Strategic Project Manager
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
While businesses, organizations, and markets have evolved, the Experience Curve concept survives and can be very useful for informing decisions, shaping strategy, and guiding implementation. This is what happens with new and disruptive innovations.
Speaker: Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO, Quixy
Product Managers: are you wondering what your teams will look like in the future? If so, it's time to look to no-code development. With it, you can leverage hyper automation, strengthen and accelerate growth, and drive value. Your teams will be able handle more projects, and focus on the real challenges. This webinar harnesses the wisdom of today's business leaders and the global pioneers of tomorrow. Join Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy, and learn how to leverage tech to drive agility with citizen development and the no-code movement.
Leading Agile
DECEMBER 7, 2022
Aren’t we supposed to be innovative and inventive so that we might push the boundaries of the market to keep up with our competition? You want to be both innovative and inventive in a competitive marketplace. The Product Strategy You Want & Need.
Proofhub
DECEMBER 22, 2020
As such, you need to come up with ways to overcome such challenges and also to have the right methods of implementing digital transformation strategies. So, what impacts does the digital transformation have on leadership strategies? What Is Agile Project Management?-Values,
Agilemania
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. The goal is to develop product strategies and roadmaps in an elegant setting. How Agile Can Product Management Benefit Your Business? The post What Is Agile Product Management?
Leading Answers
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Organizational agility is the ability of an enterprise to change direction, realign and succeed in volatile, uncertain business environments. Again, free from some of the normal scrutiny and controls that aim for efficiency, these insulated groups can innovate quicker.
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.
The IIL Blog
JUNE 28, 2018
Companies are recognizing that brand loyalty accompanied by a higher level of quality does not always equate to customer retention unless supported by some innovations. According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Innovation is often viewed as the Holy Grail of business and the primary driver for growth. The question, of course, is “How do we manage innovation needs?”.
International Institute for Learning
MAY 26, 2020
By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. This post is a supplement to Scott’s upcoming keynote at IIL’s Agile & Scrum 2020 Online Conference ]. Figure 1: The Disciplined Agile Mindset.
The Strategic Project Manager
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The Blue Ocean strategy framework has become popular since around 2005, on the initial publication of “ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant “, by W. The Basics of Blue Ocean Strategy.
Leading Agile
MARCH 15, 2023
Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.
Scrum.org
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
What is Agile Organization Design ? According to organizational design expert Jay Galbraith, there are five key components that make up an effective organizational design: strategy, structures, processes, reward systems, and people practices.
Planview
MARCH 8, 2019
In this blog series, we will be discussing five types of planning that are crucial to delivering on strategy with a dynamic and continuous approach. Our penchant for applying technology to every problem often makes innovations and development more complicated. They require people, strategies, work, outcomes, and technology. We’ll go over how to outline these plans in a way that is more continuous and agile. Lean and Agile PMO Product Innovation
Leading Agile
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
Adopting Agile is never about adopting an Agile methodology. Agile process is—at best—a means to an end. Understanding your business goals will align your organization around common outcomes, help you explain your Transformation strategy, and identify necessary tradeoffs.
Agilemania
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
One of the biggest challenges in agile project management is determining what tasks are needed to complete a project, how long each should take, and who needs to carry them out. What is an Agile Release Plan? The objective of Agile Release Planning. Certified Agile Coaching.
International Institute for Learning
APRIL 4, 2022
The Disciplined Agile Mindset. By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. In this blog I describe the mindset behind PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit, overviewed in Figure 1. Whence the Agile Manifesto?
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. Agile Transformation Coach Leaders.
Scrum.org
MAY 14, 2020
So online tooling doesn’t guarantee productivity, let alone innovation or creativity. Standard Waterfall strategies are not built for the high-speed world we live in today. Management Innovation. It’s no secret that agile software teams see all sorts of performance gains. .
Leading Agile
JULY 7, 2022
This talk will cover how to approach DevOps when you have teams who are merely trying to become predictable and contrast that with more mature teams who might be looking to localize investment decisions, or who want to touch the market often so that they can innovate and learn.
The Lazy Project Manager
MAY 25, 2021
Modernizing PPM: A Practical Four-Step Roadmap to Accelerate Agility. This webinar comes as Planview launches its new report, The State of Strategy Execution: Embracing Uncertainty to Adapt at Speed. Four steps your PMO can take to accelerate PPM agility, outpacing the competition.
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.
MPUG
DECEMBER 15, 2019
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tad Haas’ How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, How Innovation & Portfolio Management Office Underpins Corporate Success. Tad: The conversation today is built off a white paper called Innovation and Portfolio Management Office.
International Institute for Learning
APRIL 4, 2022
The Disciplined Agile Mindset. By Scott Ambler , Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute. The Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit supplies straightforward guidance to help you, your team, and your enterprise increase your effectiveness.
Agilemania
APRIL 18, 2022
Agile has been a popular project management framework ever since its inception. The agile adoption rate increased from a mere 37% in 2020 to 86% in 2021. . As per the 15th State of Agile Report, the following reasons were attributed to agile adoption by the respondents-.
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.
Scrum.org
MARCH 1, 2021
Recently, I have been discussing some reasons why Agile Transformation may fail or go slowly. In this blog, I am presenting some success factors that might help your organization move toward Agility. . This process requires changes in the mindset, strategy and operational level.
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. A working definition of Agile and Stakeholders.
Planview
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
So far in this blog series, we have defined strategy, covered the basis of strategic planning, and discussed who to include in your strategic planning team. If you need a refresher on the first two phases of this rescue mission, read through parts 1 and 2 below: Part 1: Failing to Deliver Strategy… Slowly. Part 2: Begin to Deliver Strategy… Fast. Step 1: Start with strategy. It creates an opportunity for innovation and the ability to take on the “hard stuff.”
Leading Answers
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Here is the second sample from my new Kindle book “ Agile Illustrated: A Visual Learner’s Guide to Agility ”. The book is a graphical introduction to the agile mindset and servant leadership behaviors for working with agile teams.
Agilemania
JANUARY 21, 2022
A career in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is financially rewarding. Being a globally recognized certification, SAFe is a niche agile framework that has tons of job opportunities. When should one apply the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Henny Portman
APRIL 15, 2020
The Business Agility model is the next one to add to my Bird’s eye view on the agile forest. The Business Agility Model (developed by the Business Agility Institute) consisting of twelve interacting domains across four dimensions to take into account when transforming your organization.
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