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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

A year is defined by a set of projects. First, it is necessary to believe that a year is not defined by a list of projects but rather by an Investment Strategy : an organization of stable, cross-functional teams with aligned value, funded for reasonable intervals against strategic objectives. This sounds like a terrible fate.

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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

It’s the process and governance mechanisms we use to manage the flow of work through the system. Think about things like how we write user stories, how we estimate work, how we run planning cadences, how we deal with technical concerns, and how we measure done. How do we define, track, and report on our OKRs and KPIs?

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System of Transformation Defined

Leading Agile

It was designed for a certain kind of governance. When you learn how to do SAFe and you learn all the stuff about SAFe, all the different roles and cadences and things like that, you are learning a System of Delivery. Agile was designed to work in a particular organizational context.

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Unlock the Power of the Project Management Plan

Velociteach

Plan Elements The Plan is like a book with three main sections: Execution Parameters establish how the project will be managed along with the approach, required lifecycle phases, and governance procedures. Governance All projects require oversight and governance. Defining the parameters for assessing risk (e.g.,

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Enable Lasting Technical Change by Building Empathy & Trust

Leading Agile

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. It does not work upstream.

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Encapsulation of Value

Leading Agile

Despite the obtuseness of the term, the concept is rather straightforward: encapsulating value means intentionally establishing a clear governance process and organizational structure that facilitates an alignment of product development execution to defined strategic objectives.

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. We also need to define the acceptance criteria of Agile. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? How are we forming teams?

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