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.

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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. million users worldwide.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As businesses evolve, there's an underlying pressure to adapt, innovate, and revamp. However, noticing the benefits of collaboration, you merged them into a unified 'Go-to-Market' team, aiming to harmonize their strategies and communication. You've rolled out policies that seemed innovative on paper. You've introduced new tech.

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?

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Binfire

JANUARY 29, 2024

It covers critical strategies like setting clear objectives, leveraging appropriate tools, and enhancing team collaboration. The article also features real-world case studies of small businesses that achieved remarkable scaling through adept project management. Unrealistic goals can demotivate the team and lead to project failure.

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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.

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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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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Many enterprises struggle with these challenges, but there's a strategic way to turn things around. The PMO ensures that projects across the organization run consistently, adhere to best practices, and align them with the company’s strategic goals. You're not alone. Don't let your projects be another measurement of failure.

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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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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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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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Project Pulse Journal

MARCH 15, 2024

Incorporating models, methods, and artifacts can transform your approach, thus promoting agility, informed decision-making , and effectiveness. These strategies enhance team dynamics and facilitate time and budget management as the project progresses, whether for leading small teams or managing large-scale projects.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 9, 2023

Everyone wants to focus on practices first. We can get trainers to come it, we can get coaches to come in, we can teach practices. Maybe it works sometimes, but in most large companies practices first is never the right way to go. We are orthogonal to the practices and cultures that you’re trying to get to.

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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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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Another article written more from an Agile Practitioner’s perspective is RGP’s How Business Agility Helps You Thrive in the Age of Disruption. Brown, Director and Agile Coach at the Hartford Insurance. For the uninitiated, the 4th Industrial Revolution (or Industry 4.0) I recommend both pieces as must-reads.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

By mastering digital project management, you position yourself at the forefront of innovation and project excellence, ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you struggling to manage complex projects in an increasingly fast-paced and digital environment?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2020

Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven virtual open space events. Read on and learn whether Unhangout is a suitable solution to remote collaboration challenges. ?? Open Space Technology.

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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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Planview

JANUARY 20, 2022

In Planview’s global benchmark study – The State of Strategy Execution – only one-third of the 1,000 business professionals surveyed said their companies have access to timely, accurate data. Strategy and execution aren’t connected. This barrier is especially troublesome when executive teams swiftly change strategies and priorities.

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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. Why SAFe® 6.0? Work Differently.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript.

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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.

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