Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

New Paper Improving Quality Through Intentionally Built Agile Systems Get it Now. Many a company has hypothesized that Agile methodologies would help them solve their quality issues. Paving the Way for Quality with Agile. The Impact of Agile on the System of Delivery. Scaling Agile to Improve Quality.

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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

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. In the end, this saves time in releasing the product and reduces the number of technical defects that could be present.

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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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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. However, they are presented in different ways in their approach and objectives.

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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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BA Times

MARCH 9, 2023

This can result in business and delivery practices constraining the use of newer, more agile approaches to business analysis. However, not all businesses embrace evolution and change in the same way.

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Leading Agile

JULY 12, 2023

Mike Cottmeyer delivers his talk on building a culture of Agility in a large organizations at Agile & Beyond 2023. Over the course of this presentation, Mike explores what really gets in the way of an Agile Culture and explains why people and leadership aren’t to blame for the resistance to change.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Child and the Bike — An Agile Story A while ago I was working on a new software project with a product owner that was an expert in the business domain but had never worked with an agile software development team. Then I found an article by Mike Hickerson that I felt represented a bit better how agile development works.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A view from business analysis reference guides It’s not new that a good application of business analysis practices (traditional or agile) helps Product Owners improve their day-to-day work. From working closely with the team on a daily basis, to see far better “the forest through the trees” at a roadmap and an organizational level.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. The First Agile transformation OKR – “Leader Engagement”.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The application presents a massive volume of unstructured data through a graphical or programming interface using the analytical abilities of business intelligence technology to provide instant insight. Interactive analytics applications present vast volumes of unstructured data at scale to provide instant insights. Google BigQuery.

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Cprime

MARCH 19, 2021

So, what does a typical day in life look like for an Agile Coach? Agile Coaches talk and listen to people all day long. Agile Coaches thrive on change and navigate dysfunction with ease – no two days are the same. Check out this Employee Spotlight on Cprime Agile Coach, Denise Joseph!

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

stuff) The other half is their “ me-time” , working on important documents, presentations, user stories ( JIRA is their best friend ) meeting agendas, sending minutes of meetings, and much more. Understanding a day in the life of a BA depends on whether the project is a Waterfall Project or an Agile Project.

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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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Cprime

MAY 8, 2024

Join us as we unravel the complexities of Agile transformation, offering insights and strategies for turning perceived setbacks into springboards for success. This transition places leaders, many of whom are navigating the waters of agility and enterprise thinking for the first time, in a precarious position.

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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

I am frequently asked about the best books for learning about agile and Scrum. I have nearly 100 books on agile-related topics and there are so many new agile books published every year that it is difficult to keep up! As we head into 2021, I thought I would share my lists of best agile books. Agile Coaches.

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Analysts Corner

JULY 13, 2022

In the beginning of projects, there is often uncertainty how to start with actual implementation of software product, especially when using agile framework. It could be that they have some basic education about agile framework, but often they do not have any practical experience in building the sofware product.

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Agilemania

MAY 11, 2021

The foremost objective of agile project management is the systematic and frequent execution of valuable steps. It is the agile project manager’s responsibility to ensure that the teamwork’s efficiency remains intact throughout the process. Qualities of an Efficient Agile Project Manager. However, this is not true.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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ElegantJ BI

MAY 7, 2017

As power users, and data analysis, become ‘popular’, the enterprise will see improved user adoption of BI tools and begin to understand the types of data that users value, and how to provide, and present, data to improve data leverage, and increase confidence in decisions.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Agilemania

APRIL 14, 2021

Business Agility is the new talk of the town. You cannot have business agility by training the senior management and leadership on Lean thinking or a set of Agile values and principles. To enable business agility, the proper foundation has to be in place. E-commerce became the next big thing, and two big players emerged.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do we deal with the complications it presents when we apply it at scale? In this week’s podcast, LeadingAgile Chief Transformation Officer Matt Van Vleet joins Dave to answer all of these questions along with a general primer on DevOps in Agile Transformation. How does it tie into the LeadingAgile model?

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Agile Business Consortium

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Facilitation is scarcely described in the manual and this article will present it in a nutshell and explain how it can be used successfully in projects. Your personal update Our free regular monthly email update puts the latest information on new Business Agility case studies, white papers, tools, events and news in your inbox.

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Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Russell Smith, Vice President ERP Transformation and Ade Welsh, Senior Director, Head Of Solution Design & Delivery gave the keynote presentation at the Birmingham event. Here are the key lessons learned so far: Russell Smith and Ade Walsh of AstraZeneca presenting at UKISUG Connect 2024 1.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Implementing Agile is about more than adopting a new methodology or working to change your culture. If the systems aren’t present to support those two things, Agile won’t succeed. These are common misconceptions about Agile that can lead more organizations to failure than success. So, what works instead?

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BA Times

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article presents how discovery techniques popular within product management fit in the three types of requirements: business, stakeholder and solution. If you are working in products, you certainly have realized product management handle requirements differently.

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Agile Business Consortium

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Agility and remote work don’t seem like a natural fit. Image Source The stats support the idea that agile working is better for business. With the new normal now being more remote-based work, how can we work with an agile method? Ain’t no mountain high, ain’t no valley low Agile work is totally possible at a distance.

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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. . What is SAFe?

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer chats with CTO Matt Van Vleet about the currently emerging patterns we’re seeing in Agile and DevOps. They explore how some of the lingering assumptions that don’t apply to the present state of DevOps can get in the way of actually solving the real business problems we expect DevOps and Agile to solve.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 4, 2021

It’s now about using data for survival in the present and new business models in the future. And finally, agility. Business people want more data than ever. Second, the stakes are higher than ever. We’re no longer talking about tinkering at the margins of a stable business model. Second, getting a glimpse into the future.

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BizAcuity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And when the data is presented in a visually comprehensible manner, it becomes easier for informed decision making. Have the ability to self-service and be agile enough to be configured. Do you prefer intuitive UI that gives ease of use, or agility to program and customize the user interface of the tool?

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Whether you’re currently using Jira Align or you’ve been considering the four-time leader for enterprise agile planning tools , you’ll want to learn more about the tool’s exciting new features and reports around budgeting and funding. The traditional funding model isn’t agile. The problem with agile funding.

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Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The presentation offered a rare glimpse into how an agile and forward-thinking organization like WaterWipes tackled the critical issue of data governance during a time of significant digital transformation. Impact of Errors : Erroneous data posed immediate risks to operations and long-term damage to customer trust.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This article presents how discovery techniques, popular within product management, fit in business analysis areas of elicitation , analysis and validation. For delivery, agile development methods contributed to frequent releases to the market. Such release will be often the resulting output from an initial product discovery.

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