CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

“With that in mind, we have a science-backed vitality platform that helps New Zealanders understand the current state of their health, remove barriers to better health, and create incentives to stay motivated to improve health through exercise and nutrition. One of my key relationships is with the CFO. Being able to show adaptability is key.

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Atomic Spin

MAY 16, 2019

But I often see tweets or posts about how people don’t “get” capital-A Agile. I’ve thought a lot about this problem, and I’ve tried to assemble a bit of a theory of Agile that would provide a framework for improvement. The Real Problem Agile isn’t about “doing practice X.” Tweets like this and this point out common faults.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been thinking about Agile architecture recently, since a seasoned consultant friend (Payson Hall of Catalysis, Inc.) As a former developer I am completely on board with Agile principles as a means of organizing a development team. sent me a literal cry for help. Children running around…” I love it!

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Codegiant

AUGUST 14, 2020

Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. On the other hand, if you are using an Agile framework, that may not necessarily be Scrum. Without further ado: What Is Agile (Overview)?

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Atomic Spin

MAY 16, 2019

But I often see tweets or posts about how people don’t “get” capital-A Agile. I’ve thought a lot about this problem, and I’ve tried to assemble a bit of a theory of Agile that would provide a framework for improvement. Agile isn’t about “doing practice X.” Tweets like this and this point out common faults. The Real Problem.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

The swings are inevitable—I think a big differentiator for agile talent teams is the ability to fill the stop gaps as it relates to lowering capacity/demand on TA teams and then ramping back up. Companies can create internal hackathons to exercise creativity and shipping muscles for their teams to flex a growth mindset.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

AUGUST 11, 2011

When Jim Highsmith graciously invited me to give the opening keynote at the inaugural Agile Executive Forum in Salt Lake City this week, I had to really sit down and think about what I’ve been working on the last few years, namely social business , as compared the conference theme, agility and business.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A managed live streaming service to create interactive video experiences and a content delivery network service to deliver content and applications with low latency and high transfer speed has helped it improve agility, scalability, and savings. Your cloud migration exercise has to be driven by a purpose. Assess your cloud readiness.

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Agile42

JUNE 4, 2018

As an organization, we were short of funds at that time, and there was no previously allocated budget for such a training. I still remember very clearly the exercise in which we failed to plan in an agile way. During that second day, our training was not only about being Agile. Figen and Ay?

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scruminc

OCTOBER 7, 2020

When over 50% of Scrum implementations fail to deliver on time, on budget, with happy customers according to Standish Group data, we need to find tools and techniques to help us improve the odds against this. Scrum is by far the most widely used agile framework in the world, but we’ve also found that 58% of Scrum implementations fail.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project.

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Planbox

MAY 10, 2022

Alignment with business strategy, financial impact on costs or revenues, competitiveness and agility improvements, level of risk involved, and effort required are the most popular metrics that help qualify and quantify the value before a more exhaustive analysis is undertaken. Focus on tracking and reporting the right metrics.

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James Shore

JUNE 16, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Not only that, she got permission to try “the Agile experiment.”. The Agile experiment” is what they’re calling the way Hanna works with your team. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated!

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

How legacy approaches create waste and stifle agility It isn’t just that traditional funding approaches aren’t aligned with current realities; it’s that they create waste and stifle agility—and actively work against many of the organization’s most critical goals. Teams work toward common, business-level objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Be dynamic and agile, not routine and static – most “strategy” firms offer inflexible, rigid, complex and time consuming approaches that eat up resources and yield only limited value. Let me do that now.

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Xebia

JANUARY 24, 2022

That is why this exercise is a great idea! Flying blind on Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Microservices… . For this exercise, we’re all getting roles assigned that we need to play in the EventStorm. We use the processes identified on the brown paper as our circles; marketing, budgeting, accounting, etc., It’s about listening.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In Europe there is a tendency for governance to stifle agility, but you feel that you have more control and confidence in the outcome. I started doing such a reorganization exercise every two years, and those who didn’t want to change generally left. Some people self-selected out as they couldn’t handle the change.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

While establishing a long term vision for all employees to understand is still very important, the strategic planning horizon in the new paradigm needs to be shorter term, agile and rapidly adaptive. To create competitive advantage and the value that it creates, an agile but powerful cross-functional governance process is required.

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RapidValue

JANUARY 12, 2020

Process Improvements – The client did follow Agile development methodology, however, it was not well defined. Reduced Costs – Per resource cost and overall monthly billing were well within the client’s budget. Also, the TAT for production issues was reduced from 4 hours to 2.5

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2022

It proved why this exercise was such a great idea. Flying blind on Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Microservices… . For this exercise, we all got roles assigned that we needed to play in the EventStorm. We used the processes identified on the brown paper as our circles: marketing, budgeting, accounting, etc. It’s about listening.

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Xebia

JANUARY 27, 2022

It proved why this exercise was such a great idea. Flying blind on Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Microservices… . For this exercise, we all got roles assigned that we needed to play in the EventStorm. We used the processes identified on the brown paper as our circles: marketing, budgeting, accounting, etc. It’s about listening.

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UruIT

JULY 9, 2019

Some of those that we are going to share here were taken from the book, The Agile Samurai , (we definitely recommend reading it!) Additionally, we should also discuss if there is a budget to mind; this will help the product owner in monitoring that budget cap each sprint and better prioritize the functionalities.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

As organizations move into integrated value streams and agile delivery, estimation and capacity should take a step back to drive a focus on value delivery. These estimates must be factored into their budget cycle and the requests managed as part of their “single backlog.” But who is the owner of this prioritization?

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UruIT

JULY 9, 2019

Some of those that we are going to share here were taken from the book, The Agile Samurai , (we definitely recommend reading it!) Additionally, we should also discuss if there is a budget to mind; this will help the product owner in monitoring that budget cap each sprint and better prioritize the functionalities.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. Agile teams tend to commit fewer unforced errors, and don't defer work. Agile practices unwind the “requirements arms race” between business and IT, while Lean practices reduce waste throughout the delivery cycle.

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Apiumhub

APRIL 21, 2022

However, for companies already implementing Agile (or wanting to dive into it), adding contractors to their product teams adds an interesting challenge. Agile is more than a methodology, it’s how we describe organizations committed to the premises of the Agile manifest. Your contractor should already be fluent in Agile.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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Haft of the Spear

MARCH 8, 2021

If the “wake-up call” associated with both the sovereign-state and non-state-actor threats was not ringing with the events of The Cuckoo’s Egg , the pounding on the door by hotel security was Eligible Receiver 97 (ER97): a no-notice interoperability exercise that had both physical and cyberspace components to it. The security poverty line.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

MAY 14, 2020

How do organizations actually work with Agile? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Allen Holub, discuss what organizations get wrong about Agile. Allen has been an Agile transformation consultant for nearly 40 years and has seen the best and worst it has to offer. Why Agile is failing (3:55).

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iTexico

JULY 26, 2021

If you are a first-time scrum master - a technical person who needs to get into an Agile software development project - or perhaps you’re a professional/entrepreneur doing non-software development activities who simply want to achieve your goals effectively and efficiently, there’s only one viable method to shoot for: Agile development.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The K9s CEO states to the executive team that she wants to increase online sales by a 10% without changing marketing strategy or budget. They most likely used the broken roomba methodology too, but given sufficient engineering resources, the broken roomba methodology can resemble the agile methodology and lead to success.

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iTexico

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The tricky thing about going offshore isn’t the apparent budget it’ll cost you, it’s the hidden costs. Agile Teaming. Making your teams Agile is a significant indicator of how easily and readily problems can be addressed in the heat of the software development process. It’s easy to be swayed by the surface price.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

When "on time / on budget / on scope" is the order of the day, nobody is going to cast a critical eye over their own work. That might seem obvious, but it doesn't fit into an "on time / on scope / on budget" world. It takes courage to exercise the quality call option. The holy grail of industrial, cost-center IT. Be predictable.

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

Over the next two days, I walked Tim and Mark through some structured exercises to brainstorm different markets. In our case, the late feedback drastically affected our project timeline, scope, and budget. Tim and Mark seemed very sharp, so I didn’t think it would be a problem.

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Praxent

MAY 30, 2019

How to Accurately Estimate Cost-to-Build: An App and Software Development Budgeting Guide. Accurate software development cost estimations are critical to staying within budget on any project–if an estimate shoots too low, a business could end up with a piece of software that can’t pay for itself, or remains completely unfinished.

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When it comes to PI planning using a scaled Agile framework, some of the main questions people have are: . • Isn’t the point of Agile to be more flexible, plan constantly, and in iterations? . Imagine a major stakeholder, that person who is in charge of allocating budget or planning for a major product release.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

budget, staffing, and time) are made available. Though leaders often manage certain aspects of teams and projects, when a leader delegates authority, the competence of management is exercised not by the leader but by someone else. These are people who are educated, agile, mobile, and creative. It simply doesn’t today.

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