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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

Here’s how I spot derailments: Ask initiative leaders to share access to their roadmaps, agile backlogs, collaboration tools, stakeholder communications, and internal documentation. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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The Nightmare of Hiring a Great Product Owner

Evolution4all

Agile in IT. Many of the companies who use Agile only use it for IT. Agile was actually designed as a solution to the old service-provider paradigm between businesses and IT. So many things happen between ideation and delivery and a whole lot of time is often wasted before the product ends up with the delivery team.

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Delivering Continuous Value: Lessons Learned About Software Delivery In Our First 20 Years

Gorilla Logic

What We’ve Learned About Agile. We eat, sleep, and breathe Agile because we know from experience that it increases quality, reduces rework, speeds delivery, and enables teams to deliver continuous value to the business. At the heart of our Agile practice is always the customer. Pedro Araya, Agile Practice Lead. “As

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The Role of Delivery Manager in an Agile Organization

Gorilla Logic

An agile delivery manager is typically a skilled person who focuses on making things happen, thus ensuring their teams have everything they need to succeed. They are great at managing stakeholders and are responsible for coordinating across multiple departments to remove any impediments.

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The Nightmare of Hiring a Great Product Owner

Luis Goncalves

Agile in IT. Many of the companies who use Agile only use it for IT. Agile was actually designed as a solution to the old service-provider paradigm between businesses and IT. So many things happen between ideation and delivery and a whole lot of time is often wasted before the product ends up with the delivery team.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The captive corporate IT department was a relatively early adopter of Agile management practices, largely out of desperation. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.