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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Scrum.org

AUGUST 8, 2022

TL; DR: Agile Micromanagement. Nevertheless, the prevailing cause of many messed-up attempts to use Scrum result from what I call agile micromanagement, a pseudo-commitment to agile principles only to be overridden whenever it seems beneficial from a stakeholder’s or manager’s perspective. Reasons for Agile Micromanagement .

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Scrum.org

JULY 8, 2019

TL; DR: Agile Leadership. I recently started aggregating my notes, links, and references related to agile leadership to understand better what it — in the context of an agile transition — may look like. In the end, becoming agile is not the goal of a transition; surviving as an organization is.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. We’ll also discuss the lack of automation.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 30, 2018

Customer-centric leadership is essential in today’s business climate. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains more and cites these well-known brands as excellent examples of customer-centric leadership. In Review – 7 Lessons for Customer-Centric Leadership. Customer-Centric Leadership. Customer Experience.

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NimbleWork

MAY 1, 2024

Initially developed as part of the Lean Manufacturing methodology, VSM has since evolved and found application in a wide range of industries, including knowledge work sectors such as IT, software development, marketing, and HR. Value stream mapping can typically be used to improve any process where there are repeatable steps.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2020

Regularly, we find articles from developers detailing why ‘Agile’ in general and Scrum’s nature, in particular, deserve our collective disdain. Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning. That’s simple; let me help you: Write something about how awful “Agile” and Scrum are.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 14, 2023

Agile Fluency® Model is a fantastic model. With this model, you start seeing your journey as a series of paradigm shifts and stages toward higher fluency in Agile: The Agile Fluency model has been as an inspiration for us, when we were designing Org Topologies. Without defining value, no agile transformation is possible.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

TL; DR: Essential Agile Failure Patterns — When Noise Interferes with Signal. When Scrum becomes an element of an agile transformation, the following three common essential agile failure patterns prove to be an exceptionally tough nut to crack for any Scrum Master. Is Agile a Fad or a Trend?

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SCRUM Agile Technical Review Software Review 221

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

ProjectManager is powerful project management software that can be used by both experienced and beginner project managers and team members to manage projects. Each task and phase of the project has a due date, which means your project has a schedule. Get started for free today. Projects are made up of deadlines.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 25, 2021

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Let’s say a software development team recognizes that they need to improve their code quality and to do this there are many options available.

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Planio

MAY 8, 2023

On average, IT projects come with more complexity and risk, and can quickly fall to pieces without proper due diligence, management, and leadership. IT projects still require planning, control, teamwork, and leadership — and for that, organizations use IT project management frameworks to maximize their success.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We can’t deliver working software in less than one month! (You The second most common objection I hear is that the Developers won’t be able to deliver a Done increment in less than one month. This is my favorite objection because it is an opportunity to discuss some fundamental truths about Agile.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 4, 2024

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Are you looking to elevate your leadership style to foster a more dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team? These are not just ideals but the foundation of Scrum that empowers teams to navigate the complexities of their projects with agility and integrity. What is the Scrum Framework?

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Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. See the Quick Reference Card leadership for agilty.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 20, 2020

Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches have been quick to point out one of the principles from the Manifesto for Agile Software Development that states, "The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation".

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Techno-PM

MARCH 15, 2022

The agile scrum master certification provides a way for people to get trained in the latest project management techniques. The Agile Scrum Master certification is the first step to becoming a certified agile coach. It's a project management methodology that can manage software development projects. What is scrum?

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Leading Answers

JULY 10, 2020

How does work from home impact our use of agile approaches? If co-location is no longer possible, can we still be agile? Yes, of course we can, and in many ways, now we need to be more agile than ever as we try new approaches, learn and adapt how we work. The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles do not mention co-location.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Machine Learning (ML): a subfield of AI that focuses on developing models that can “learn” from data patterns without human direction. Generative AI (Gen AI): a type of AI that can create new content such as images, audio, music, video, code, and text. is the learning process – how the brain acquires knowledge and skills.

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The IIL Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

Machine Learning (ML): a subfield of AI that focuses on developing models that can “learn” from data patterns without human direction. Generative AI (Gen AI): a type of AI that can create new content such as images, audio, music, video, code, and text. is the learning process – how the brain acquires knowledge and skills.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI ChatGPT Software Review 154

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? Code Quality.

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 11, 2024

Dive into the world of Scrum, the Agile framework that is revolutionizing project management across industries. Scrum Framework Scrum is an Agile framework designed for teams to break down complex projects into manageable pieces, allowing for flexibility, collaboration, and rapid adjustments based on feedback.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Scrum Guide 2020 is available now: Change is coming to make Scrum more accessible and inclusive beyond software development. Scrum has witnessed many applications beyond its origins of software development over recent years. The Sprint Review lost its detailed recipe on how to run the event.

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. In this way, a holistic strategy can be developed that enables sustainable success. What is a SWOT analysis?

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Agile and DevOps are two concepts that have revolutionized software development and operations in recent years. Both approaches aim to improve collaboration, increase efficiency, and deliver high-quality software products. What is Agile Methodology? However, they are often seen as separate entities.

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Technical Review Agile Software Review Infrastructure 36

International Institute for Learning

JULY 7, 2022

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). By Luigi Morsa. The most popular and pioneer methods, as highlighted by Conboy et al.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to drive innovation and achieve their goals. At the heart of agile teams is the Scrum Master, a role that plays a crucial part in ensuring the team’s success.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 3, 2020

. In our professional world of software development, it is very common someone asking “What is this Agile?” And I have heard people debating on the definition of Agile using heavy weight words like it’s a mindset, it’s a culture, way of leadership, methodology, manifesto, group of practices etc.

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Software Review SCRUM Agile Innovation 164

Inloox

MARCH 27, 2024

Especially in quality management as well as in product development, R&D and software development, this method can contribute significantly to the optimization of processes and the improvement of products and services. This can be done using the evidence-based milestone release method, for example.

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Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Software Review Software Developers 100

Scrum.org

MAY 9, 2020

In software development context, it doesn’t work differently. . Although it can be argued that figuring out the systemic constraints is not that straightforward, it actually works in a similar way in software development context. Constraint 1: Heroic Management & Leadership Approach.

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Henny Portman

JUNE 6, 2020

It’s all about agile leadership, culture, improving the organization, the importance of networks, respect and a save environment. Here we also get some examples of Scrum outside software development, e.g. at the police, in the classroom, in education. Organizational design. Scrum off script.

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Software Review Technical Review SCRUM Agile 89

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Agile and Scrum are the two most popular names in the industry. Most organizations think all Agile frameworks come with a one-size-fits-all approach. As a result, they set unrealistic expectations when using Agile practices in their organizations. More than 44% of Agile projects fail due to a lack of experience.

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Planio

JULY 4, 2022

Agile ceremonies are the fuel that keeps your development team moving forward. But what if you’re not entirely comfortable managing and running Agile ceremonies? Agile ceremonies get abandoned when teams stop seeing the value in them. But often, the real issue is that they’re missing a key ingredient: leadership.

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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. When you look deeper, you see them struggling to cope with growing technical complexity, coordination costs across teams, and leadership bottlenecks. More frequently, there’s a major event driving it.

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SCRUM Technical Review Innovation Leadership 231

The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Most contractors solved the problem by creating technical writing departments that reviewed all reports prepared by PMs before sending them to the clients. Executives attended project review meetings with the government agencies to make it appear that they were functioning as active sponsors rather than as invisible sponsors.

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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. How does workflow across the Agile world?

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