The End of Agile – Part 1 (A Brief History of Agile)
The Data Administration Newsletter
MARCH 20, 2024
In recent years, we have seen substantial pushback on many fronts against Agile as a viable and important project management methodology.
Practical Simplification in Agile
Leading Agile
JANUARY 28, 2019
Once we’ve implemented X, we’re Agile. It’s all or nothing; either you’re fully Agile, or you’re nowhere. In a 2014 blog post, I wrote: –start– …anything we do has an outcome. Only One Step to becoming Agile? how to manage funding in an agile way. life-altering.
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SWEBOK v3 and v4?—?Software Requirements
Analysts Corner
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
So I went through SWEBOK Guide v3, published in 2014, to review existing KAs focusing on the “Software Requirements.” And written in 2014, it quickly became outdated. I barely heard about practicing RUP in 2014 because Agile methodologies were on the hype train then (and claimed to be dead soon, too).
Agilemania 2.0: How We Became the Scaled Agile Gold Partner?
Agilemania
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Today, we at Agilemania are proud to share that we have become a Scaled Agile Gold Partner. Since our inception in 2014, we have been constantly exceeding expectations and delivering value. Why Scaled Agile Framework? It is the Framework of Choice for Leading Organizations to scale agile. SAFe Agile Product Manager (APM).
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An Assessment of Modern Agile Assessment Tools
Vitality Chicago
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
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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How do you implement SAFe agile in your organization?
Agilemania
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Scaled Agile Framework has taken the corporate world by storm. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. 37% of the respondents reported that their organizations used SAFe to scale agile. Source: 15th State of Agile Survey. Scaled Agile Framework: What is it?
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Fresh Agile Voices – Episode 1 – Anjali Leon
Vitality Chicago
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
I am excited to share with you my discussion with agility and resilience coach Anjali Leon. This is our first agile coach interview in what I plan as a series of discussions intended to bring some diversity of thinking and opinions and to amplify voices that may not otherwise be heard. I am calling it Fresh Agile Voices or FAVs!
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Agile Methodology vs Framework vs. Toolkit – Does it Really Matter Eddie?
Vitality Chicago
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
If you want to stir people up, just call one of the popular agile approaches by the wrong label. We are Not an Agile Methodology! Not that long ago, the Disciplined Agile people underwent a change where they stopped referring to DA as a “process decision framework” and began calling Disciplined Agile a toolkit.
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The 5 Best Agile Books for 2022
Vitality Chicago
JUNE 28, 2022
In 2021, I first published my list of the best agile books, organized by role. It isn’t easy to limit the list to just 5 best agile books! My list of best agile books may not match your list of best agile books. In fact, to be an effective agile coach, you need a significant amount of learning. That is OK.
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What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Monday
APRIL 1, 2021
When you’re a small startup, Agile is easy. With each hire, the Agile team grows, and staying Agile becomes more of a challenge. With each hire, the Agile team grows, and staying Agile becomes more of a challenge. What is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)? What are the 4 levels of Scaled Agile Framework?
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In Appreciation of the Agile Manifesto
Vitality Chicago
JANUARY 26, 2022
This article was originally posted on the Agile Alliance website. 2021 marked the 20-year anniversary of the publication of the Agile Manifesto. We are literally standing on the shoulders of giants today though I doubt that the millions of people who are using agile ways of working today appreciate that.
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What is Agile Hardware Development?
Cprime
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Can an Agile process be used for hardware development? We were confident that the combination of Cprime’s Agile expertise, and TCGen’s expertise in hardware product development, would enable us to answer these questions. The Agile Hardware and Software Study. The Recommendations for Agile Hardware Projects.
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Why Journaling is Key for Agile Coaches
Vitality Chicago
JANUARY 17, 2021
Agile leadership as an inside out job. New opportunities. Issues and opportunities for teams. Here are some stats from my personal journal (another benefit of an online tool) for the last 5 years: 2011. Clearly my writing has declined. What used to be a daily thing has become much less. see: [link]. Good for personal care. See: [link].
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How Domo Values Propelled a Hockey Team to Greatness
Domo
JANUARY 27, 2021
At Domo, we like the metaphor not only because we pride ourselves on anticipation and agility, but because we actually sponsor a hockey team—and have since 2014. The phrase was coined by the father of the NHL’s all-time scoring leader, Wayne Gretzky , but corporations have probably put it to use more than anyone else.
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Agile 20 Reflect Festival.
Agile Business Consortium
JANUARY 29, 2021
Agile 20 Reflect is the first, global community-led agile festival. The agile community has come together to celebrate 20 years of the agile manifesto. The events and activities are to be focused on: Past of Agile. Present state of Agile. Possible Future of Agile. and Innovation and Integration Pte.
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Interview with Ryland Leyton, author of “The Agile Business Analyst”
Practical Analyst
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Ryland Leyton recently released his book, The Agile Business Analyst: Moving from Waterfall to Agile. Written especially for business analysts operating in, or transitioning to an agile delivery environment, I recommend The Agile Business Analyst as a solid candidate for your professional development reading list.
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Your Reference for Accelerating ERP Financial Processes
Insight Software
JANUARY 6, 2020
By the end of 2014, McKinsey consultants were including two new criteria considered crucial for 21st-century businesses: speed and flexibility. We could spend hours exploring why agility is so hard to achieve. Decision-makers may have reports to work with, but they can do little if anything to actually improve agility or outcomes.
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Bad BI habits, how to fix “crappy” visualizations, and big data vs. retail: Twitter Round-Up for June 6
Domo
JUNE 6, 2014
For years now retailers and shopper marketing… [link] May 27, 2014 According to McCann’s Truth Central research unit, “Precision targeting has resulted in shoppers feeling that they may be missing out on things they’d like to discover and purchase.” Is Big Data Helping Or Hurting The Shopper Experience? Agree, or disagree?
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It’s official: monday.com is a certified great place to work
Monday
OCTOBER 31, 2021
Since our launch in 2014, our mission at monday.com has been to make work easier, simpler, faster, and more intuitive. Empowering our employees to be autonomous and agile. That mission doesn’t just apply to the over 127,000 companies we are proud to count as customers. It also applies to our own culture and way of life at monday.com.
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Sustainable Pace in Product Management
Roman Pichler
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” What is Sustainable Pace? Both options will reduce your workload and make it easier to achieve sustainable pace.
Design Thinking – A Comprehensive Overview
My Agile Partner
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
While agile methodologies increasingly emphasize user-centricity, they didn’t directly address the growing need for innovation. Design Thinking, alongside other methodologies like Lean Startup and Design Sprint, has been integrated into the world of agility to encourage innovation. What is Design Thinking?
Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later
Agile Coach
APRIL 19, 2018
Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. About a decade ago I was an innocent bystander in a screaming match between our ‘senior’ agile coach and a senior manager. That’s the reader’s digest of my life from 2008 to 2014. F-bombs and all.
The “Big Tech” Threat to Automotive OEMs and Their Suppliers
Leading Agile
APRIL 21, 2021
Apple introduced the CarPlay standard and Google gave us Android Auto in 2014. We will now look at the forthcoming threat to existing car manufacturers due to this shift in perspective. The First Step Was Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto. Both products solved a very particular problem with our vehicles.
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What is a Digital Product?
Roman Pichler
JUNE 14, 2016
See my post The Agile Product Owner Responsibilities for more information on how distinguishing between products, features, and components helps you define the right roles and responsibilities.). The messenger feature used to be part of the main Facebook app until it was unbundled in April 2014.
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Primer curso Flight Levels 3D con Klaus Leopold en Netmind
Netmind
APRIL 3, 2024
Klaus Leopold Adems, Leopold es el autor del best-seller Rethinking Agile , Practical Kanban y es co-autor de Kanban Change Leadership y participa regularmente en conferencias de Lean y Agile. Adems, en el 2014 fue galardonado por la comunidad de Lean Kanban con el Brickell Key Award por sus logros y liderazgo sobresaliente.
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Primer curso Flight Levels 3D con Klaus Leopold en Netmind
Netmind
APRIL 3, 2024
Klaus Leopold Además, Leopold es el autor del best-seller “ Rethinking Agile ”, “ Practical Kanban ” y es co-autor de “ Kanban Change Leadership ” y participa regularmente en conferencias de Lean y Agile. Practice without theory is expensive.” Incluye Formación y certificación oficial Flight Level 3 Design del 6 al 9 de mayo.
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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1
BizAcuity
MAY 10, 2022
2014: Satya Nadella, who is influential behind Microsoft’s cloud market ventures, becomes the CEO of Microsoft. Kubernetes is still being explored widely as the technology for agile practices. The platform was acquired by Salesforce in 2010 for over USD $200 million. Fact: IBM built the world’s first data warehouse in the 1980’s.
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What Is Value-driven Project Management?
Managed Agile
DECEMBER 28, 2023
The need to deal with uncertainty has been the primary driving force behind an Agile approach; however, there was a significant pendulum swing associated with Agile in the early years. Managed Agile Development – Making Agile Work for Your Business was published in 2013.
Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product
Roman Pichler
JANUARY 8, 2019
Alternatively, you may want to unbundle one or more features into a new product, as Facebook did with Messenger in 2014 when the company released the messaging feature as a stand-alone app. Capture your decisions and document the new strategy for your product, for instance by creating a new, forward-looking Product Vision Board.
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A Review of the Fixing Your Scrum Book
Vitality Chicago
JANUARY 1, 2022
I love books and most of the books I have today are on Agile, Scrum, or related topics like Lean, leadership or teamwork. To be effective as an Agile Trainer and Coach, you really need to have a deep understanding of a wide range of topics. I also think that there are many many Agile Coaches would would benefit from this book.
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10 Scaling Tips for Product People
Roman Pichler
APRIL 2, 2019
My experience suggests that a single product person is usually not able to work with more than three agile development teams. Remember when Facebook unbundled Messenger in 2014 and launched it as a standalone app? You will therefore have to consider involving additional product people who can own features and guide the feature teams.
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Certifications, Digital Credentials, and Endorsements
Agile Coach
JANUARY 16, 2020
I started running my Lean Change Agent workshop in 2014 and have never offered a certification. I remember asking for help to create a local meetup in the days when there weren’t 90,000 agile meetups every week in every city. Lamest blog post title ever. I was told to contact my trainer…who did nothing to help.
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How Minimum Viable Products & Features Helped Me Write My New Book
Roman Pichler
MAY 10, 2016
In September 2014, I had a first version of the book available for review—MVP number two. Attending my Agile Product Strategy and Product Roadmap training course; Reading my book Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age. My second MVP helped me with this challenge. Learn More.
How digital platforms are changing the way we work
Monday
OCTOBER 20, 2021
For example, over at monday.com, we follow strict international regulations to keep your information safe , including ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 27018:2014. monday.com is an open-source Work OS that allows you and your team to design, build, or customize the workflows you need to get things done faster and with more agility.
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Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started
EBG Consulting
JANUARY 15, 2019
The BMG canvas inspired me in 2014 to create the first version of a Product Canvas when I was product coach as a global car-sharing company. Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis. New York: Collins Business Essentials, 2014. Andi Roberts Coach & facilitator (blog). link] and [link]. EBG Consulting.
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Postgres vs. MongoDB for Storing JSON Data — Which Should You Choose?
Sisense
AUGUST 18, 2019
It’s designed to be agile and scalable, and it uses dynamic schemas so that you can create records without defining the structure first. That said, Postgres gave everyone a shock by beating MongoDB’s performance ratings on EnterpriseDB.com in 2014. MongoDB is an open-source database. It also supports hierarchical documentation of data.
Kanban Part 7 – Care & Continuous Improvement of your Kanban Systems
Vitality Chicago
MARCH 30, 2021
Experience will help; new facilitators might also find the book Agile Retrospectives; Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen helpful. The Agile Retrospectives book includes a number of techniques that can be used for root cause analysis. Scrum.org, the Agile Lion Institute and IBQMI all offer Kanban training courses.
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Goodbye Oracle Discoverer, Hello Next-Generation Reporting
Insight Software
JULY 29, 2020
Oracle’s 2014 Statement of Direction laid out its support strategy. It is also less dynamic and agile than Discoverer and cannot easily alter reports. You can maximize adoption of a new reporting environment with agile and rapid deployment of your team’s evolving business requirements. Deliver Content and Business Value Early.
A Wake-Up Call
Business Borderlines
JULY 2, 2021
We have all read or heard and hopefully understood that; Inaccurate requirements gathering remained a primary cause of project failure (37%) in 2014……… by PMI Pulse of the Profession Study …. IT and Software Project failures are determined by failure in the first phases of any project initiative. namely the requirements phases.
Best project management software for 2023
Monday
MAY 23, 2023
It was first launched in 2004 by 37Signals, but later rebranded as Basecamp in 2014. Agile framework: The software has a time boxed, iterative approach for product development workflows. Cons: Asana may not be suited for larger teams or those who don’t prefer an agile approach. Asana also uses drag-and-drop for ease of use.
Sometimes Less is More
Leading Agile
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Here’s a screenshot from a Microsoft blog post dating from 2014, giving a preview of VisualStudio 2015 and Blend. The point isn’t to pick on VisualStudio, but only to illustrate how a typical modern IDE looks when it has several panels open.
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What is the Benefits of Real Time Data?
Insight Software
OCTOBER 9, 2024
According to a recent Forbes article, “the prescriptive analytics software market is estimated to grow from approximately $415M in 2014 to $1.1B This agility allows companies to adjust strategies, deploy targeted campaigns, or capitalize on new market opportunities before competitors do.
What’s New with PMI-ACP and How Does It Impact My Training?
Managed Agile
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Many people who are familiar with my Agile Project Management training may be wondering what I think of those changes and how it relates to the training I’ve created. The key question it raises, is “How do these topics align with the role a project manager might play in an Agile environment?” What’s Missing?
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