Accenture

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A recent white paper “What Moves You” by the Business Agility Institute revealed that as business agility continues to flourish, so will the focus on employee engagement. There is a meaningful place of influence for the agile leader to encourage adjacent disciplines. The exercise works well for teams of 5-7 people.

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 31, 2018

Agile Retrospective Format. In today´s post, I want to talk about the Agile Retrospective format. I met several Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches that facilitate Agile Retrospectives without knowing this concept. In my opinion, a successful Agile Retrospective must follow somehow this structure. Set the Stage.

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Watch to see what problems a simple exercise such as this presents to teams. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. The post The Pencil Challenge first appeared on Agile Alliance. Can you pass your pencil to other team members on a Zoom chat? PLEASE LOG IN. Learn … Continued.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 14, 2020

The book Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick explores how productive conversations can change the way organizations develop software. By Ben Linders, Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Kanungo says a whole army approach doesn’t enable the agility required in the modern digital age where markets rapidly change. The success of that platform eventually transformed the business into a digitally-led company.

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Exadel

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Read other Exadel articles about Agile approach. The importance of having teams with diverse specialties and experience is growing, and Agile has emerged as a way to help bring those varied voices together. Agile has become the new industry standard and replaced classic directive management methods. Exercising judgment.

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James Shore

JANUARY 12, 2023

And what better way to refresh that teamwork than with the Agile Fluency Game? I’m happy to announce that I am now offering in-person and remote workshops featuring the Agile Fluency Game. About the Agile Fluency Game. The Agile Fluency Game is a fun and thought-provoking exercise for team members, managers, and executives.

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Accenture

MARCH 24, 2020

Over the last year, I’ve been privileged to work with Accenture Learning as their Agile Coach. During that time, while they’ve learned the ways of agile, I’ve been able to hone both my remote coaching skills and my knowledge of the training space. Looking for remote agile experiences? Conclusion.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says. The solution lies in making those teams understand they’re getting involved in innovation, not just a cost-cutting exercise.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

This all seems different in Agile. Management appears to be well integrated in Agile teams, not an overhead, nuisance, or encumbrance as it is in traditional project management. What is it that makes Agile management different from traditional management? An Agile story is an expression of end-to-end business need.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards. A Cyberresilience Road Map.

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Coveros

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Agile teams should track a small set of agile software quality metrics initially and then adjust those metrics over time as they learn which are informative and aid with decision-making. It is recommended that agile teams initially track three metrics: test coverage, change failure rate, and deployment frequency.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This means adapting to the needs of consumers, businesses, and governments—as well as changing market conditions—by becoming more efficient, agile, and smart. This is a challenge AGIL ® Vision seeks to solve.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. Martin demanded.

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Agile42

AUGUST 29, 2019

agile42 will be part of the Agile Islands conference taking place on 24th September 2019 in Mariehamn, the capital of the Åland Islands. During the conference, I will keep a workshop to introduce coaching with practical exercises before lunch. Let’s get connected and exchange viewpoints on agile. The main language is Swedish.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It is possible to influence a better audit experience, transforming it from a check-the-box exercise with little perceived value to one of true value that helps set you up for success, and with way less pain.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Pandemic-era ransomware attacks have highlighted the need for robust cybersecurity safeguards.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. Evaluating if the project will allow the company to increase revenues or replace an aging system that will ultimately save costs over time is a necessary exercise in eliminating projects that don’t move the needle,” he says. “A

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Mentormate

JANUARY 12, 2021

On every large software project — Agile or otherwise — there are management and finance team members who want to understand how much it’s going to cost. For an existing Agile project , there’s usually a predetermined budget that accounts for all of the year’s planned features and projects. Discuss Each Item.

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MagmaLabs

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In Agile methodologies, such as Scrum (which we use here at Magmalabs) retrospectives are carried out at the end of each sprint. It is an exercise of participation, active listening, and consensual decision-making that gives us a sense of integration and understanding of the process, benefiting both the project and its members.

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James Shore

MARCH 1, 2017

Five years ago, Arlo Belshee and I created a game about agile adoption. The ideas in that game influenced the Agile Fluency™ Model , Arlo's Agile Engineering Fluency map , and the Agile Fluency Diagnostic. Every time we've run the Agile Fluency Game, players have asked to get their own copy. 01 Mar 2017.

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Accenture

MARCH 20, 2019

While Agile originated as an approach to software development, due to its benefits, it has since been applied in almost every industry and environment, including HR. The journey to “being Agile” in HR begins with understanding and believing in Agile values and principles then applying them to the way (and the “why”) we do our work.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Recently I was conducting a Design Thinking and Agile Learning workshop with a group of seasoned consultants. It came to the first collaborative exercise with which each team table was to engage. What Makes Up the Agile Mindset? For Agile I refer to the Five Scrum Values. “My Facilitation Problem”.

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The Programmer's Paradox

MARCH 16, 2023

When the Agile Manifesto came out 20 years ago, I really liked what it said. Startups were quite agile long before the manifesto used that term. Over the decades as I watched the Agile movement mature, I was often fairly vocal about what I thought were mistakes in its direction. Then you are truly agile.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Recently I was conducting a Design Thinking and Agile Learning workshop with a group of seasoned consultants. It came to the first collaborative exercise with which each team table was to engage. What Makes Up the Agile Mindset? For Agile I refer to the Five Scrum Values. “My Facilitation Problem”.

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Accenture

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In Part One of this series, I wrote about how Agile represents not merely practices like Scrum and Kanban but is rather built on a foundational set of values. Now, in Part Three, we look at how behaviors support and reinforce Agile principles and values. Why is Microsoft even a member of this Agile Learning Consortium?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

While the SIU worked with a managed service provider (MSP) around the configuration aspect of the migration, and this partner gave them guidance, they ended up doing the actual migration exercise themselves. “We Communication and change management makes a massive difference.”

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Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Exercise increases your energy level, and meditation can help you ground yourself—whatever works for you! Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Scrum Master struggling to survive under the tyranny of micromanagement?

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Xebia

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The main goal of this exercise is to give and receive help. So, this enables us to have small multidisciplinary teams, which is critical to success in a DevOps organization or becoming truly Agile. Would you like to have some experienced, trusted advisors on board who have guided other companies to become more agile?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile will need to renegotiate their relationship with their teams if they are to succeed. A manager cannot simply become an Agile Manager – a big part of a transition requires a rethinking of how job titles are assigned and the leadership responsibility that comes with them. Scrum Team Titles.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage. A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Then it’s about building enterprise agility. Not just agile software teams, but ways to help turn the company into one that can go quicker at speed. Stepping back, I think when I started in the CIO role, topics such as digital transformation and business agility were top of mind.

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Accenture

MARCH 26, 2019

These were just a couple of the shocking statistics on the dire state of diversity in leadership that Fabiola Eyholzer shared in her keynote at the Women in Agile session, which preceded the Business Agility Conference earlier this month in New York City. Use a gender-reversal exercise. Would we feel the same way?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That’s had its advantages: “We’ve been able to leverage these platforms to do so much, more rapidly, and with much more agility than we would have if we had taken the more brownfield approach,” he says. Kyndryl is now running a clean version of S/4HANA Cloud private edition on Microsoft Azure.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2022

There is general consensus that in the short term I&O professionals need to impose order on chaos with the longer-term objective of structuring a catalogue of services featuring pre-vetted architectures establishing technology choice guardrails that guide and provide agility to the business.

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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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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 15, 2018

Express Yourself is a simple Check-In agile retrospective exercise that aims at visualizing the team´s ideas and helping to gather data early in the team retrospective session. This should be done in later exercises. This activity gives everyone an opportunity to describe how they feel about a certain topic.

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