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The Roles and Responsibilities of a SAFe Agilist You Never Knew

Agilemania

It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. It’s when the entire organization uses Lean and agile practices to continually deliver innovative business solutions faster than the competition. They experiment and convey the importance of innovation to stakeholders and teams.

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Exploit vs. Explore – When to Choose Agile over Traditional Approaches

Vitality Chicago

Exploit work is not new or innovative. The strategy here is to compete through innovation and sometimes the reinvention of the entire organization. Explore work is that innovative work that organizations due to launch new products or find new markets and customers. Innovation, new business models and delighted customers.

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Comprehensive Guide to Becoming A SAFe Agilist

Agilemania

It was, for this reason, Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize SAFe® in 2011. Some of the responsibilities of a SAFe agilist include fixation of schedules, timely increment in systems, applying the synchronization, adoption of Agile and SAFe core values, face-to-face planning, innovation, and planning. Reduced delays.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Scrum

Netmind

This was a concise document which unified visions that had begun to diverge and saturated the framework with more and more elements and entities, despite the fact that Scrum was originally designed as a “light” framework. software product development, marketing, innovation, etc.), gradually replacing Scrum in terms of relevance.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Scrum

Netmind

This was a concise document which unified visions that had begun to diverge and saturated the framework with more and more elements and entities, despite the fact that Scrum was originally designed as a “light” framework. software product development, marketing, innovation, etc.), gradually replacing Scrum in terms of relevance.

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The Complete Guide to Scaling Agile and SAFe for Business Agility

Agilemania

In 2011, Dean Leffingwell codified SAFe, the Scaled Agile Framework , to help bring the success that small teams have enjoyed with various agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP but scaled to the enterprise. Intel: Intel was reeling under pressure to constantly innovate while controlling costs and maintaining quality. .

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How to Lead Organizational Change: The Key Role of Managers

Netmind

Instead of “putting out fires” or “controlling work”, managers must maintain a holistic or systemic vision by working to nurture the environment. An environment in which people are not afraid of making mistakes is an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement. But what does that mean? Accept mistakes.