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Agile vs DevOps – Same, Different, or Something Else?

Cprime

If you have worked in any technology field over the past decade, there’s a good chance that the terms “Agile” and “DevOps” have become overused buzzwords for you, just as other terms like “lean”. Around 2000, the software world claimed the spotlight for Agile as the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published.

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An Assessment of Modern Agile Assessment Tools

Vitality Chicago

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about agile assessment tools. Whether it is comparative agility or the AgilityHealth assessment, it seems that people want to be able to measure the relative agility of one or more of their teams. Most agile coaches that I know have developed some form of assessment.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

Agile Unplugged is your chance to explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation, out in the field. So, I had never, I’d like heard of Agile, but like, I had no experience with Agile.

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77% of High-Performing Teams Use Project Management Software

Vitality Chicago

Would this also include Agile Lifecycle Management tools like Azure DevOps and Jira? Ditto the 125 agile teams that I have trained and coached. The #2 search result links to a 2007 publication from PWC. PWC, Insights and Trends: Current Programme and Project Management Practices (2007). That statement piqued my interest.

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Agile History and Archaeology

Managed Agile

Have you ever thought about how Agile history has evolved and the broad archaeology behind what direction it is going in? To really understand what is going on, its useful to pretend to be amateur archaeologists and step back and look at the history of how Agile has evolved. What is Archaeology and How Does it Relate to Agile?

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Can Agile Coaches Change an Organization’s Culture?

Vitality Chicago

In total Wells Fargo has been fined over $20 Billion since 2007. I think the story of Wells Fargo provides an interesting example for Agile Coaches who strive to influence or change the culture in organizations. Agile Coaches with good intentions may not appreciate just how difficult it can be to make changes in organizations.

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Raise No More Devils: Improving Organizational Capacity

Leading Agile

The title is based on a quote from the 2007 movie, Ghost Rider. The so-called “agile scaling frameworks” seem to add administrative overhead, new roles and titles, and procedural “rules” without addressing practical problems. The two fight briefly. A Little Help. guide is 816 pages long.

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