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Winning Agile friends in your organization

Agile Alliance

Learn how to effectively promote Agile to your organization by tailoring your message to your audience The post Winning Agile friends in your organization first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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5 Misconceptions About Scaling Agile

Xebia

When you hear the term "scaling Agile," what comes to mind? For many people, the first thing that comes to mind is doing everything bigger and faster—throwing more people onto a team of agile teams in order to speed things up. However, this is just one of the many misconceptions about scaling Agile.

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How to Become an Agile Learner

Harvard Business Review

Learning agility — the skill of learning from experiences so you can succeed in new situations — is a much sought-after skill to create a flexible, mobile, and resilient workforce. For example, a leader with learning agility can successfully transfer their talents across different parts of an organization.

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How to be the CIO every company wants

CIO

Companies expect a lot from their CIOs: integral knowledge of the business, visible financial results, and agility, as well as the ability to manage change, actively collaborate with business leaders, and explain IT in plain English. How will it reduce OpEx and speed time to market? Business IT Alignment, CIO, IT Leadership

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.

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Agility Meets SAP

Xebia

Applying agile methods in an SAP project is recommended, as they provide flexibility, quicker adaptation to business requirements, and better customer engagement, resulting in successful implementations and increased customer satisfaction. However, this agile transformation in SAP projects presents both opportunities and challenges.

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

In this webinar, you will learn: How to recognize which state your team is currently in. How to move teams from survival mode, to learning mode, to being wholly self-organized. When and how to encourage learning in your team. How to communicate with others in the C-Suite about reasonable expectations for your team.

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A Guide to Designing Delightful Dashboards

Speaker: Daniel O'Sullivan, Product Designer, nCino and Jeff Hudock, Senior Product Manager, nCino

In this session, we will discuss how to design, develop, and implement successful dashboards. Importance of agility and iterative processes. All of these activities play a vital role in providing the superior experience your customers demand. Dashboard design do’s and don’ts. Where to start the journey.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

As the CTO, it is your job to determine how to implement these important features. Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how to pivot to a customer-first culture through planning and execution. Sign up now to learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. In this webinar you will learn: How product managers can distill market facts from the market and express them in relevant numerical and visual contexts. Specific techniques for analyzing SaaS products.

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More Effective Agile Leadership

Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software

We all strive to be effective Agile leaders. But how do you know if you're succeeding? Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Adapt your implementation of Agile to your industry context.

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Unlocking Agile's Missed Potential!

Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx

Many organizations feel that Agile has not delivered on its promises. Agile won’t achieve its potential without a better model that facilitates collaboration among product management and engineering teams. Agile doesn’t need to change. We need a way to incorporate Agile planning and deployment that meets business expectations.

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Looking to Implement Agile Architecture in Your Company?

Speaker: Scott Middleton CEO & Founder, Terem Technologies & Anthony Murphy, Product & Agility Lead, UST Global

Agile architecture is a lever for unleashing autonomy and enabling agility in product teams. Watch this session with Anthony and Scott to go in depth on everything you need to know about agile architecture, and how to implement it.

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All Method, No Madness: Guiding Agile Teams Through Research

Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy

Many Product Managers feel quality user research can't keep up with the fast-paced culture of agile teams. However, if you're willing to adapt the right way, you don't have to sacrifice agility or user insights. Using the right strategy, your agile team will collect qualitative data, interpret it, and integrate it effectively.