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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

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. 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.

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What is Lean Portfolio Management? Primary Focus | Objectives

Agilemania

Portfolio management teams apply these principles and approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. Shorten feedback loops by leveraging the cadences. It’s important to apply the feedback to reinvest in ideas that produce good outcomes and downshift those that do not. Author's Bio.

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

We are Scrum practitioners. And Scrum is an Agile framework that organises teams using five events, three roles and three artefacts. . Skilful use of the Scrum framework creates environments biased toward action and optimised for transparency, learning and adaptation. Agile isn’t just for software. . As an example.

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Why an Agile Delivery Model Isn’t Always Enough

Leading Agile

Many organizations simply go through the motions of Scrum. Why then do all the ceremonies and cadences still fail to deliver on the promise of Agility? The 3 Things at scale take the form of Structure, Governance, and Metrics. Governance is the expression of backlog at scale. Yet, they still fail to improve.

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Is Kniberg’s Aligned Autonomy matrix still relevant?

Scrum.org

The management discussion on team mandate has shifted toward determining the degree to which teams are self-organizing, self-directing, or self-governing. Thanks to the work of Scrum Masters, many teams moved from A2 to A3, from incomplete teams with dependencies to (more) autonomous end-to-end teams.

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How To Implement Lean Portfolio Management?

Agilemania

To synchronize and coordinate the planning and feedback loops, the leadership team makes choices at a fixed cadence that is followed by both the operations (the tasks they carry out) and the governance (the reviews they conduct). LPM operations. Author's Bio. The post How To Implement Lean Portfolio Management?

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