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Encapsulation of Value

Leading Agile

Creating an ecosystem where teams with the appropriate skills and resources are able to organize around a well-prioritized backlog to build working, tested product sounds simple but can quickly become mired in the nuances and details that manifest as all sorts of complexities in product development organizations.

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Releases and Deadlines in Agile

Herding Cats

This is not to say those 5 developers sitting around the table with the Product Owner and the Scrum Master are not working on vitally important code. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Cadence Release - when a fixed period ends, go with what is ready to go. Release Plans come in two flavors.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

We’re not talking about creating agile projects or agile teams. And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? Without overcoming this, it is hard to make a case for Agile teams.

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Is SAFe Agile?

Leading Agile

It doesn’t mean they are bad. Agile is an incremental and iterative approach for developing software products. It’s typically best for small teams. The most common small team Agile methodologies are Scrum and XP, maybe Kanban, or a combination of the three. Kanban focuses more on flow and less on teams and time-boxes.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. We have these small teams working on troubled projects. Eventually, they landed on the ideas of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration and Deployment. But here we are.

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System of Delivery: An Intro to Our Governance Model

Leading Agile

Our governance model and team design may look a little complicated at first glance. In this presentation, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens will remove the noise and walk you through our governance model and team design to help you better understand the LeadingAgile system of delivery. Video Transcript.