Leading Agile

MARCH 22, 2024

Nobody sets out to adopt agile just to adopt agile. Companies invest in agile because they think it will help them solve a business problem. They hope Agile will help the delivery teams work more efficiently, decrease defects, or provide a more collaborative working environment. So, what do they care about?

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Scalability: NaaS allows for easy scaling of services as needed, ensuring optimal performance. Benefits of Implementing NaaS NaaS offers a myriad of advantages to businesses across industries: Enhanced Agility: With NaaS, organisations can respond rapidly to changing market conditions, giving them a competitive edge.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

Many large-scale Agile Transformations are struggling. However, the underlying problem is that most large organizations weren’t built to be Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile. Organizational Barriers to Agile. Many organizations that adopt Agile operate with hindrances present. Some have failed.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As a result, manufacturers need to be more agile than ever, and most struggle to keep up. Agility Is Important at Every Stage of Manufacturing. Agility is an essential quality at every stage of manufacturing. Agility Begins In the Cloud. Cloud technology is among the biggest changes. Reliable and Trusted Security.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 11, 2023

Agile begins to break down because these impediments are outside the teams’ span of control. You’re going to need a plan to deal with the things that are getting in the way of Business Agility. One of the biggest things that we see and that we believe, and we think is a huge barrier to adopting Agile.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Why Smart Companies Are Hiring AI Software Developers In the modern business landscape, agility and adaptability aren’t just buzzwords—they’re essential survival skills. This agility can be crucial, especially if you’re racing against the clock to launch a new product or feature.

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Frameworks like Dual Track Agile from Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired” influenced organizations to split their efforts into product discovery and delivery. Dual Track Agile The main shift on the premise of product delivery, compared to traditional requirements engineering, is that teams have to discover what the user’s problems are.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities. Program/Portfolio Coach.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights. Interactive analytics applications make it easy to get and build reports from large unstructured data sets fast and at scale. It is designed for business agility, and that is why it is highly scalable.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 2, 2022

Enterprises are starting to recognize that giving non-technical employees no-code tools to accomplish certain tasks and processes reduces costs and also contributes to increased agility. Data science is an evolving profession. Artificial intelligence is also changing at a remarkable pace. Overwhelmed development teams and talent shortage.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Like a long and winding mountain road, the journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. In this series of articles , we want to share that map: a clear description of what you should expect to see across all five phases of Agile maturity. Phase One – The Agile Team. Download your free copy today.

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Domo

MARCH 12, 2024

Expect to dive deep with speakers like the innovators from MarketStorm, transforming resistance into acceptance; the wizards at Robert Half, who’ve mastered governance at scale for 10,000+ users; and the magicians at ESPN, creating a fan-centric revolution that turns metrics into magic. Sounds redundant for a fortune-teller like yourself.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 8, 2023

Mike Cottmeyer debates ChatGPT and sits down with Dave to discuss what it really means to scale Agile. Over the course of the podcast, Mike and Dave explore the difference between Agile principles and practices, cloud migration, and what the Agile industry can learn from the US Air Force’s concept of Agile, Open, and Digital.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

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Agilemania

JANUARY 24, 2022

What is Scaling in Agile? Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scaling Agile Frameworks.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our industry, we notice there are typically two ways people want to approach Agile Transformation. Inserting Agile Culture First. Once they adopt the practices, then that will get us to break the impediments necessary to get us working in an Agile way. Implementing Agile Practices First. Culture first is a great idea.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 26, 2022

An Agile Delivery Model will only take you so far. Why then do all the ceremonies and cadences still fail to deliver on the promise of Agility? Why then do all the ceremonies and cadences still fail to deliver on the promise of Agility? The truth is that most organizations were not built to be Agile.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 6, 2023

Agile, Open, and Digital. While the Digital Century Series may be dead in the water, the idea of Agile, Open, and Digital lives on and is making some headlines in the manufacturing world and the world of business in general. Mike Cottmeyer sits down to explore this idea of Agile Open Digital and the implications for the Agile industry.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Scaling the Mt. Today, we at Agilemania are proud to share that we have become a Scaled Agile Gold Partner. Why Scaled Agile Framework? It is the Framework of Choice for Leading Organizations to scale agile. Fast forward, a decade later, SAFe® had become a celebrity among the agile frameworks.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Agility is no longer reserved for small software development teams. Nowadays, many large enterprises are embracing large-scale agility to enhance organizational agility and deliver high-quality products more quickly. “Leading SAFe” is a course and certification offered by Scaled Agile, Inc.,

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

First, however, you might wonder how Disney implements its agile framework at such a large scale. This article will discuss how Disney can use the Scaled Agile Framework® to address the challenges a large organization will face when implementing it in its software development process.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But, those large-scale changes are often exactly what enterprises need to successfully keep up with this environment. So, you’ve recognized the need for your organization to undergo a digital or scaled Agile transformation. What is Agile transformation training? That’s not what you’re going to do.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What is Agile? Agile processes require a certain context to be effective—so this means we need to form teams, build backlogs, and measure and control work in a way that gets us to a working, tested product at the end of each sprint if we want Agility. Is it processes? Is it a type of culture?

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. One of the Dimensions of Agile Product Delivery core competency. Automation.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. Dependencies are the number one killer of Agility. .

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Cprime

MARCH 1, 2024

– LeanIX supports Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) by offering a platform that enables organizations to map, visualize, and optimize their IT ecosystems for agility and innovation, ensuring architectural integrity. What are the benefits of integrating ITFM and EAM? How does Cprime enhance the use of LeanIX and Apptio?

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of Agile methodologies, Large-Scale Agile frameworks like the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) have gained prominence. The tribe comprises multiple Agile teams that work together to achieve common objectives, often related to a specific value stream or product.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Leading large-scale Agile Transformation is extremely complex. That’s why Agile Transformation fails so frequently. In this video, Mike Cottmeyer uncovers some of the biggest reasons organizations aren’t getting the value out of Agile they thought they would.

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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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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

Agile methodologies have gradually emerged over the past 30 years but really became a thing with the signing of the Agile Manifesto back in 2001. This talk will explore the differences between team-level Agility, larger-scale organizational Agility, and ultimately business-focused enterprise Agility.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 12, 2023

True Business Agility requires a lot more than team-level Agile. It requires an integrated operating model across the entire organization, where all the different parts of the business are plugged into an Agile System of Delivery, and it operates as an integrated whole. What does it take to achieve Enterprise Agility?

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But, those large-scale changes are often exactly what enterprises need to successfully keep up with this environment. So, you’ve recognized the need for your organization to undergo a digital or scaled Agile transformation. What is Agile transformation training? That’s not what you’re going to do.

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Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

1,00,000 practitioners and 20,000 enterprises worldwide have kept faith in one thing to drive Business Agility in the enterprise. . And that’s Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe)! . As per the 15th State of Agile Survey, 38% of the respondents considered SAFe as the most popular framework for scaling agile. .

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation. Agile Transformation Consultant: Team Attributes.

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