Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Similarities and differences between Nimble and the model of the 6 Business Agility Enablers The concept of a Nimble organization is still sometimes compared to the capability of having Business Agility. In a previous article , I compared the Nimble concept to the Business Agility model from the Business Agility Institute (BAI).

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Remember when Agile first showed up? But for many of us, things didn’t quite work out as planned. This is just one way Agile can go wrong. Remember your first planning poker session? Why This Matters When Agile goes wrong, it causes big problems. It felt so precise.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 22, 2024

One of the biggest reasons agile fails to take root inside these organizations is resistance or hesitation from their executive teams. Their hesitation toward Agile often comes from a place of caution, rooted in a preference for traditional methods that provide clear metrics and established processes.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

An Agile Transformation Roadmap is all about getting people to change and having that change be sticky. Our Agile Transformation Roadmap, our change model, is all about getting everyone to see what’s possible, creating safety for the people and the business, and building trust at every step of the Transformation.

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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. Agile Coach’s Responsibility.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 17, 2024

But agile transformation isn’t a black art. It can be planned, tracked, and measured. A Basecamp is an intermediate step along the agile journey that allows you to measure progress and claim an intermediate victory before the next leg of your transformation journey. But what if that doesn’t work?

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

I recently participated in a web seminar on the Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling, hosted by the founder and CEO of FP&A Research Larysa Melnychuk along with other guests Pasquale della Puca , part of the global finance team at Beckman Coulter and Angelica Ancira , Global Digital Planning Lead at PepsiCo. And finally, agility.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 29, 2023

I don’t spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn, but the other day, I was scrolling around and happened to catch a thread where some folks in the Agile community were debating if SAFe was actually Agile. In short, it really comes down to what you mean by Agile and Agility. One of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When it comes to Sprint Planning in the Scrum framework, precision and predictability are paramount. Yet Sprint Planning based on story points and average velocity, while popular, has inherent flaws. The central idea is to repeatedly simulate an event using varied random inputs, and then use statistics to analyze the outcomes.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Is Agile Transformation simply about making a culture shift, or should we start with processes and go from there? But what does it really take to enable successful Agile Transformation? Because people tend to resist change, culture-first Agile Transformation can be a tempting way to get started. Starting With Culture Change.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 7, 2024

Complexity stands in the way of application agility. WHAT CREATES APPLICATION AGILITY? To achieve true application agility, we need a combination of automated tests, automated builds, clear APIs and contracts, robust DevOps pipelines, and responsible use of technical debt. At its core, a complex system creates a fear of change.

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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

When working toward becoming an Agile Organization, many companies begin by applying Agile methodologies at the team-level and then call the Transformation done. The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. Overcoming our Barriers.

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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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Growing Agile

JULY 6, 2020

This is the second part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. The more time the Product Owner can spend with the team on a daily basis, the less time is needed in rigorous planning meetings. The post The 12 Agile Principles. appeared first on Growing Agile.

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Simplilearn

JUNE 11, 2021

Or you can leverage an Agile technique known as Planning Poker®. What in the world do Agile and Scrum have to do with Poker? It’s fun, exciting, possibly rewarding, and there are so many different types to choose from. You can play 7-Card Stud, Texas Hold’em, 5-Card Draw, and Omaha. Wait, what? Read More.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The term Agile Pillars is just another name for the four core values that were laid out in the Agile Manifesto. The Agile Manifesto Pillars are: Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools. Responding to change over following a plan. Agile Transformation Pillars? The 3 Things that Make Agile Work.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Agile needs to be tied to business-driven results. If not, then we start measuring things like people trained, teams doing Scrum, or the organization’s sentiment toward Agile to tell us if we’re succeeding. If your Agile isn’t helping you do that, then it’s not really Agile at all. First, how are we forming teams?

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Have you ever felt daily standup as, a waste of time not getting any insights on progress towards the goal status meeting where every team member updates what they are working on then, there is a high chance that the organisation or the team assumed that a set of rituals can make them agile.

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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. Beginning Your Agile Journey.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

You prepare an annual operating plan outlining your budget and allocations every year. WHERE THE PLAN GOES WRONG. Projects that you targeted did not start when you planned. Unplanned events, outages, and work eat at the money you planned to invest in a new value. The projects can be planned in detail.

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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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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cost savings is a tricky subject with Agile. But it’s not because Agile can’t impact cost savings. It’s because Agile has very little impact on direct and immediate cost savings. The problem is, most people think the wrong way about how to save on cost with Agile. Transcript.

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Timo Elliott

MAY 10, 2023

It has grown through lots of mergers and acquisitions, has around 5,000 employees, and is planning for further rapid growth. The company has a strategic plan, a business plan, and a financial plan. The company owns and operates a diverse network of short line railroads, terminals, ports, and repair terminals.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Establish an Agile System of Governance to guide this (and other) efforts. Adaptive Governance This is an adaptive and dynamic process best served by agile governance. Quantify the economic benefit of improving each capability (performance, market fit, availability, quality, etc.) Decide the transformation approach for each capability.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But, even if they don’t make up a significant part of your workforce, they will stall your progress if they are unwilling to adopt your Agile way of working. A company adopting Agile might be moving from IT being an expense to a strategic differentiator they invest more in during Transformation.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Covey from “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” as it relates to agile transformation. Learning and education, reading and writing, and even organizing and planning are all part of the Mental dimension, which utilizes Habit 3 – Put First Things First to manage ourselves effectively. ” A BALANCED ORGANIZATION.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Nimble vs Agile: why is a unique term not enough? I went to the dictionary to look up the translation and there it was: NIMBL E (adjective) : agile. I went to the dictionary to look up the translation and there it was: NIMBL E (adjective) : agile. respond to changes more than following a plan.

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Simplilearn

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Now, with the advent of agile and DevOps, the software is produced and released every day. Developing and deploying software requires much planning, and it's also. In the past, developing and deploying software was done in weeks or even days. Read More.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 2, 2023

When people say they have a culture problem that’s preventing them from sustaining change in an Agile Transformation, what they’re really saying is that they have a cognitive dissonance problem. You have an inability to help people see how Agile is going to improve the organization. So, you’re going to need a better plan of attack.

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BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Agility for any organization is the ability to stay alert and be prepared to act on any decision almost instantly. Agile software development is a collaborative process between and within project teams with an ingrained set of values and principles for software development.

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BizAcuity

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Agility for any organization is the ability to stay alert and be prepared to act on any decision almost instantly. Agile software development is a collaborative process between and within project teams with an ingrained set of values and principles for software development.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 24, 2022

What is Agile governance? Simply put, Agile governance is a way to maximize the flow of value within an organization in the fastest way possible. In small, lean startups, there aren’t a lot of legacy processes and systems in place to overcome, and your teams are small and conducive to an Agile governance model.

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Leading Agile

JULY 28, 2022

The goal of adopting Agile is always about achieving the desired business outcome unique to the organization that is pursuing it. The Agile mindset can be adapted to fit many industries or businesses. They can negotiate the amount of work they accept into their sprint during sprint planning based on their team’s past velocity.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Extra-list First and foremost, a business analysis professional MUST start with the Agile Extension of the BABoK® and the Guide to Product Ownership Analysis (POA). These are official knowledge guides from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) that focus on agility and product ownership.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Analysts Corner

MAY 24, 2023

A typical BA workflow for an agile project When I was trained in Business Analysis, I always tried to join the pieces I had learnt. Hence, this article will walk you through a typical workflow for a BA in an Agile/Scrum project. Many times, it also occurs that the initial release planning has to be revised as you approach it.

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