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.

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Agile42

AUGUST 21, 2018

The Certified Agile Leadership program returns to Johannesburg for the first time in 2018 with a public class on September 3-5 that can be booked online. Those who embrace Agile values paint a pretty clear picture of an Agile Leader. And moreover, they are someone living by the Agile Principles.

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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. The Scrum Master should be mindful to keep the scope of the conversation on the team’s sentiment, not finding solutions.

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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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Evolution4all

MAY 2, 2019

Emerging startups and growing companies looking to scale can immensely benefit from implementing communities of practice (CoPs) in their organisations, positively influencing many areas including innovation , leadership , cultivation of a “learning culture” , camaraderie , and employee retention which all leads to substantial growth. .

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scruminc

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Or, leadership may come armed with a list of their top priorities (note the plural) sometimes numbering around 100. . Now, most everybody in Agile knows about this idea of a Product Vision. Scrum does improve productivity but there is still only so much that can be done at any given time. Now let’s backtrack a little bit.

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Evolution4all

APRIL 25, 2019

Given their informal nature, the first question that you and almost everyone else in the leadership team of your organisation might ask is this – how do you manage communities of practice? We provide Team Coaching , Agile Training , and Agile Consulting , OKR Training , OKR Consulting , Innovation Training and Innovation Consulting.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Have you ever had friends or family ask, “I know you’re called a scrum master, but what does that mean? Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. What do you actually do ?”

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2024

Acknowledging these challenges and complexities, how can one pressure-test their spreadsheet exercise against the realities of execution? Are they working in agile? Are they developing novel products and services? Configuring a package solution? What key technologies are they using? What skills will enable operations in the new model?

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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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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1: Are your hand shivering and pouring yourself with sweat right before your scrum master interview? If so, this “ Scrum Master Interview Questions and Answers ” article can, without a doubt, boost your confidence up and put your worries at rest.

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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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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

MARCH 6, 2023

“Now all that [work] happens within an agile circle with iterative delivery, so the linear process has all been crushed together.” Here’s how he did it: Holden hired cloud architects , who brought cloud integration experience and training to the agile methodology Holden embraced. And he hired agile coaches to work with his IT team.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. In the event that the Basecamp guys happen to read this, they might be shrieking and gibbering right now, because they do not, never ever, in any way or sense, describe Shape Up as an “agile methodology.”

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Cargo Cult Agile. Okay, you’re Agile now,” your manager says, before vanishing in a puff of golf-scented smoke. Hi, I’m your Scrum Master,” she says. Second Edition cover. Your feedback is appreciated!

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 31, 2019

Many organizations shy away from scaling Agility or conducting robust Program Increment (PI) Planning because of remote teams. The solution: Conduct remote PI Planning using Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). How: Scaling client’s scrum practices using SAFe®. Project Context. What: B2B e-commerce portal re-platform project.

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Gorilla Logic

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Just about a year ago, my colleagues and I wrote a blog post about our experiences using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Remote Program Increment (PI) Planning for a new Gorilla Logic customer. We are officially in the middle of our fifth consecutive quarter using the Scaled Agile Framework and more pointedly, remote PI Planning.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 7, 2020

Depending on the methodology being used, this could be on a daily basis (for AGILE projects) or weekly basis. Leadership skills?—?thinking In fact, leadership is so essential to successful project management that I believe we should change the job title to ‘Project Leader.’”? —?Annmarie, Kanban and Scrum boards.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). The web is over 30 years old; the Netscape browser appeared in 1994, and it wasn’t the first. 2023 was one of those rare disruptive years.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. and now it’s time for an update.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2015

A few months ago, we took a look at the pathologies of matrixed organizations : no focus, amateur management, and people waging turf wars to secure power that they can exercise without consequence. This isn't leadership, this is perpetual pleading, often just to complete the most marginal of tasks.

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