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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

The idea is that you teach folks how the process is supposed to work, and they will inspect and adapt and remove impediments along the way. The net effect is that we bastardize the process to accommodate the disfunction. It’s the process and governance mechanisms we use to manage the flow of work through the system.

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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. They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning. Second, how are we building backlogs?

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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. Lifecycle phases describe the required process steps from inception to delivery. Project Baselines and Other Performance Metrics.

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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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GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide Applied to Agile

Herding Cats

The GAO Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide has 12 steps. Either a Cadence Release Plan or a Capabilities Release Plan. Risk Management has 6 processes, see SEI Continuous Risk Management. Maintain the Baseline with Repeatable Processes. These describe the increasing maturity of the project's artifacts.

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release paradigm, is a flow-based approach. The variability of the development work is minimized through the planned cadence. Focusing on meeting the needs of the customer or market is key to success in the Cadence approach.

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An Incremental Paradigm

Herding Cats

We were speaking a Homeland Security yesterday on Agile development in the Federal Government and there was a senior director who brought up a paradigm that resonated with me. We live in a golf course community , where our waste water is processed locally inside our area. The Waste water plant can be seen from our deck.

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