BA Squared

AUGUST 16, 2021

Agile has been around now for 20 years (agile as a term in software), whereas the practices have been around much longer. After 20 years, there seems to be continued conversation about the BA role on agile teams. If Agile teams don’t have BAs they still do analysis, they have to! The question is how good are they at it?

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Domo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At a time unlike any this world has been through over the last century, organizations that place an emphasis on agility and innovation have a distinct competitive advantage in their marketplace no matter what may come next, experts believe. “We And when you listen with receptiveness , you inspire questions, which lead to innovation.

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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. Within this context, the role of a Tribe Manager has emerged as a pivotal position responsible for ensuring alignment, collaboration, and success in large-scale Agile organizations.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. How Agile Can Product Management Benefit Your Business?

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Growing Agile

OCTOBER 13, 2021

These are: Envision Strategic Signals Innovation by Design Iterate. The envisioning aspect sets the vision and provides the aspirational description of the company, product or project. Innovation by design should start with empathy. Agility is at the heart of the Iterate aspect.

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Vitality Chicago

AUGUST 31, 2022

Agile ways of working have become extremely popular since 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. But does agile work in all contexts? Deciding When to Choose Agile over Traditional Approaches. Exploit vs. Explore is Better than Agile over Traditional. Context Counts!

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Cprime

MAY 11, 2023

This is the third in a three-part series of articles covering the POETIC Leadership approach to Lean-Agile leadership , authored by Alex Gray, a Lean Agile Practice Lead at Cprime. In the second, we covered why emotional intelligence is vital for Lean-Agile leaders, and the value of instilling team thinking into the organization.

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Vitality Chicago

APRIL 29, 2022

I try to do what I can to keep up with the new agile books being released so that I can maintain the popular blog, The 5 Best Agile Books of 2021. Doing Agile Righ t was published in 2020 by three principals of the consulting firm Bain & Company. Those are not household names in agile circles though I have heard of Rigby.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 22, 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. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Core Values of Scaled Agile Framework ®. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the world’s leading framework for business agility. No amount of tactical training can substitute the need for clear vision, the goal state, shared responsibilities, and personal accountability to achieve success. Improved predictability.

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Bintelligence

JANUARY 22, 2020

5 Executives and 100 Companies and Products Leading in Innovation in 2020 Business Intelligence Group Announces the Winners of the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards. Philadelphia, PA—January 22, 2020—Today, the Business Intelligence Group named 5 executives and 100 companies as leaders and winners of the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards.

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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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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. What is SAFe?

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 27, 2023

Many organizational transformation projects fail because the stakeholders do not share the same vision. Business analysis concepts and techniques can build an environment of collaboration and clear communication, where everyone expresses their points of view and build a shared vision of understanding about the change to be carried out.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 5, 2022

Yves Lombaerts, Sales Manager for the Belgian market, picked up our Global Innovation Evangelist Timo Elliott for an interesting ride to SAP’s offices in Brussels. Timo: I love coming to Belgium, I always notice several great innovation projects here. We see that they don’t always have the budget to invest heavily in innovation.

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Clarasys

APRIL 21, 2021

When implementing agile principles and methods there are several questions that must be considered to guide you with decision making. Applying agile to teams – what is your ambition and how mature are your team members and organisation? Agile, scrum, kanban, extreme programming (XP), SAFe, Lean – what’s right for you?

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It goes without saying that one needs to keep updating his/her knowledge in the chosen field, especially a dynamic one, to be effective and possibly innovative. Agile is one such discipline that keeps evolving at a reasonable pace and hence agile practitioners must always be on their toes to be relevant and perform their role effectively.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Innovation is the lifeblood of the financial services industry, where staying ahead of the curve is essential for survival. Traditional AI may have streamlined processes and provided analytical insights, but GenAI expands on these capabilities by fostering proactive innovation.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a large-scale agility framework that helps organizations develop and deliver complex products and services in an agile manner. Part of the agile community questions the real implementation of these values with this ultra-complex and comprehensive framework.

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Watermark Learning

MAY 28, 2021

Welcome to the second in a series of three blogs in which we discuss Agile Business Analysis. In our previous blog, we talked about what Agile business analysis is and the Agile mindset. In today’s blog, we will take some time to cover business analysis skills that can be leveraged in an Agile Environment.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 24, 2020

From 9/11, selling tickets online in 1995, fuel hedging in the early 1990s, to the very beginning with Herb going to the Texas Supreme Court to begin flying, and creating the Ten Minute Turn in the early 1970s, Southwest has met and overcome various challenges with innovative techniques coming from passionate Employees and fearless Leadership.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Organizations are also transforming, initially, companies transitioned from waterfall to agile now they are implementing SAFe®-. SAFe® isn’t something related to safety but SAFe® means a scaled agile framework. There can be no more than two Agile teams supported by one PO. PI Planning. During the Program Execution.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And what’s their relationship to the product vision and the product backlog? At the heart of the model in figure 1 are four artefacts: the product vision, the product strategy, the product roadmap, and the product backlog. The product strategy communicates the approach chosen to realise the vision and to make the product successful.

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Cprime

JANUARY 9, 2024

Prioritize the developer experience by creating an environment that encourages innovation and provides access to the latest technologies. Reduce managerial red tape to empower engineers and accelerate innovation. Foster a supportive environment that encourages innovation, provides cutting-edge tools, and supports remote work.

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Cprime

JANUARY 4, 2024

– An Atlassian Cloud Migration Assessment is crucial as it provides a detailed analysis of the current IT environment, identifies potential challenges and opportunities, and ensures that the migration strategy is technically sound and strategically aligned with the enterprise’s long-term vision.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 9, 2020

That means the Product Lead must have the ability to communicate a vision to both the team and to senior executives. The Tech Lead is someone who understands Agile methodology thoroughly, enjoying a technical background, as well as business savvy. The Project Manager creates a protected space where innovation can thrive.

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Netmind

JANUARY 28, 2021

In this way, failure isn’t a random result of your attempt to market a new product; instead, failure is a possible result you already took into account in your methodology focused on the validated learning cycle: Start with a vision from a business idea with one or more initial hypotheses. Is there a market for this business idea?

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Growing Agile

OCTOBER 15, 2021

While there are differences between them, invention, innovation and creativity are part of the same WhatsApp group, and all of them are becoming increasingly necessary in a disruptive world. Innovation is about stopping, collaborating and listening. Collaboration is defined as the act of working together towards a shared vision.

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Netmind

JANUARY 18, 2021

In this way, failure isn’t a random result of your attempt to market a new product; instead, failure is a possible result you already took into account in your methodology focused on the validated learning cycle: Start with a vision from a business idea with one or more initial hypotheses. Is there a market for this business idea?

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