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Agile Governance Demystified

Leading Agile

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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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. How are we orchestrating and governing those dependencies? Second, how are we building backlogs? How are we forming teams?

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Context and environmental factors should govern process requirements, specificity, and formality. He authors monthly articles, is regularly quoted in the industry press, and is a podcast guest. In 2016, Alan founded Project Management Essentials to share his passion for and experience in project management, leadership, and Agile.

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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. The project type, industry, and compliance requirements inform what steps and phase gates should be included.

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From Order Taker to Opportunity Maker…IT’s Digital Transition for Driving the Business

Leading Agile

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. It involves more than just IT.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

Join Mike Cottmeyer as he shares some of his earliest observations and latest thoughts on the Agile industry and explores what must be true for Agile to succeed. Probably the third category of stuff, and this is what I find interesting about the industrialized agile frameworks at this point. There’s just a lot of stuff to unwind.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? A lot of what those people have built upon are really sound foundational principles, like encapsulated teams at the work surface level, Kanban or flow based kind of governance models on top, right, at a lean agile metrics that enable us to measure improvement, things like that.

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