Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This time, we’ve got a collection of stories about business analysis, data, agile, and product and project management. and a personal story of becoming a business analyst. , and a personal story of becoming a business analyst. What does Big Data mean? But, how do you get started? What should you learn? AI Pitfalls?

Enterprise Architecture 130

Enterprise Architecture Requirements Gathering Business Analysis Business Analysis 130

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. As the person in charge of the product, you depend on the work of the development team and you are, of course, affected by poor performance. But this would be wrong.

Agile 131

Agile Planning User Experience Project Management 131

Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers. You need the stakeholders’ active contribution to progress the product and reach the product goals.

Product Management 120

Product Management Product Management Vision Agile 120

Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

It also allows you, as the person in charge of the product, to understand if dedicating your time and energy to the offering is worthwhile and sustainable. Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal.

Vision 124

Vision Product Management Product Management Agile 124

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Rates & Business Goals. This includes ensuring that they know the relevance of agile development when developing AI applications. If you aren’t a tech person by trade, you can easily be fooled into thinking an agency can get you the right people when they are really not of the specialty you need. Reputation.

Agile 260

Agile 260

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When it comes to Agile Transformation, every organization has to find a way to overcome whatever is blocking the organization’s ability to be Agile. Agile Impediments exist at many levels, but most large scale Transformations now require that technical practices are more sound than ever. . Agile Impediment 1: Packaged Software.

Agile 96

Agile Planning 96

Analysts Corner

AUGUST 17, 2022

Personal illustrations series. It’s a big waste of time. Indeed, the art of creating, curating, and preserving quality project, product, and process documentation is facing a crisis in the age of “agile.” The goal is to make it better, not perfect. Stay agile. Credit: Issa Arts Artwork?—?Identity Identity Crisis.

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Documentation Agile Planning Project Management 246

Timo Elliott

AUGUST 27, 2020

Business leaders, as well as their employees, can become so preoccupied with firefighting that no time is left to ensure the business is on the right track and aligned with the greater goals of society. Those who are most agile in reaping these advantages will grab market share from those who don’t adapt fast enough.

Supply Chain 162

Supply Chain Vision Agile Planning 162

Cprime

APRIL 20, 2023

This is the first 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. To solve these problems, the culture needs to change. Leaders define these systems. These leaders can exist at all levels of the organization.

Agile 52

Agile Innovation Vision Requirements Gathering 52

Cprime

APRIL 18, 2022

Scrum has been used globally for over 20 years and is the most popular Agile framework based on recent studies. Hence, if you are uncertain about applying Agile/Scrum for your teams, it is important to assess to see if there are major landmines ahead so that you can take action to avoid them early, where possible. I will elaborate.

Agile 98

Agile Innovation 98

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

Healthcare 110

Healthcare Planning Product Management Product Management 110

Cprime

JANUARY 26, 2023

Questions: How Big is Your Scrum Team? If it’s too big, how does this impact the team’s ability to self-organize, self-manage, collaborate and communicate effectively? For larger teams, do you have a single shared Product Goal or Sprint Goal? Or do you find it hard to craft goals? Have smaller sub-teams formed?

Vision 94

Vision Planning Agile Project Management 94

Vitality Chicago

APRIL 29, 2022

Agile ways have become mainstream for software and technology teams. Can those teams and departments use agile practices to boost their business agility ? Can those teams and departments use agile practices to boost their business agility ? Applying Agile Practices to Boost Business Agility. #1

Agile 97

Agile Visualization Finance Documentation 97

Analysts Corner

AUGUST 8, 2023

Dynamic systems changing processes and rules The goal of this series is not to present the current state of available technology but to design the next stages of evolution to guide research and development investments. Ethical issues are adequately addressed to prevent an AI agent from causing damage or harming people to achieve its goals.

Artificial Intelligence 130

Artificial Intelligence Banking Digital Business Analysis 130

Cprime

JULY 6, 2023

Eliyahu Goldratt, author of “The Goal”, said, “Tell me how you will measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.” This simple rule applies to many other domains; from business strategy to personal goals, it is nearly impossible to change our current state unless we know what that is. Why do metrics matter?

Agile 52

Agile Monitoring Planning 52

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.

Agile 98

Agile Portfolio Management Logistics Planning 98

Agilemania

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Scrum Master is the person responsible for applying the Scrum framework according to the Scrum guide. In addition, they oversee that teams follow the Agile principles and values. . Assisting in finding techniques for effectual Product Goal definition and Product Backlog Management . Who is a Scrum Master? Product Owner.

Agile 98

Agile Backlog Management Planning Innovation 98

Analysts Corner

JANUARY 15, 2023

Before you are about to start a new project/task, define a process to guide you in how you will approach, get on with and accomplish your end goal. Don’t ever assume that this link on a screen is unnecessary or that the order of UI elements won’t make that big of a difference.

Visualization 100

Visualization Documentation Agile Planning 100

Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

Project Management 131

Project Management Product Management Product Management Agile 131

Cprime

MAY 16, 2022

Challenges adopting Kanban are similar to Agile adoption. This finding from the report may or may not be a big deal, but remains interesting nonetheless. I personally find it interesting that of the companies using Kanban, only 5% are in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Organizations of All Sizes Are Using Kanban.

Agile 86

Agile Innovation Change Management Digital 86

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. But what if we told you there’s a whole class of DevOps considerations that no one is talking about that’s secretly killing your ability to unleash the potential of Agile? We’ll also discuss the lack of automation.

Agile 124

Agile Skillset Innovation Monitoring 124

Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A question that I get frequently is what is the optimal number of members for my Agile or Scrum Team ? Second, for those of you who demand a specific answer up front, here it is – the optimal number of members for an agile team is 5 or 6 people. People tend to err on the side of teams that are too big.

Agile 87

Agile Skillset Project Management 87

Agilemania

MARCH 25, 2022

The Agile methodology has long been accepted over the waterfall methodology. Despite over decades of its inception, agile transformations have been a failure for many organizations. Whatever the reason, today we are going to talk about the phases(steps) in Agile methodology. Agile Statistics. What is Agile Methodology?

Agile 89

Agile Project Management Planning Documentation 89

Analysts Corner

AUGUST 22, 2022

According to an AI copywriting bot Note: If you want my personal opinion on why products fail, read part 2 of this story. especially when fundraising becomes an issue due to lack of progress toward launch date goals without substantial progress toward finding product/market fit.” You can find it here. And how can you avoid them?

Innovation 130

Innovation Product Management Product Management Planning 130

Vitality Chicago

AUGUST 31, 2021

While you may not be able to use all 25 tips, you may find that some of these could be put to immediate use to help you for a short term boost to accomplish some goal. There was no pushing – it seemed the person was always holding the team back. Strengthen your team by removing that person. Do they know?

Agile 75

Agile Healthcare Documentation Innovation 75

Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

Agile 62

Agile Planning Government Portfolio Management 62

Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For several years now I’ve been including a glossary of Agile Terms as a handout in my classes. An Agile Cheat Sheet of Terms. As a result, we now have a beautiful and powerful tool that provides the meaning of over 200 commonly used agile terms. Download Your Free Agile Cheat Sheet of Terms Today. Agile Champions.

Agile 74

Agile Planning Visualization Project Management 74

Cprime

APRIL 19, 2021

I don’t know how everyone feels about this update, but personally, I felt that this refreshed version was long overdue, and I definitely welcome the changes. Change #2 – Product goal as a new concept. I personally like this change, and wished this was introduced sooner. what did you do yesterday, etc.)

Agile 52

Agile Planning 52

Astera

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If you have had a discussion with a data engineer or architect on building an agile data warehouse design or maintaining a data warehouse architecture, you’d probably hear them say that it is a continuous process and doesn’t really have a definite end. What do you need to build an agile data warehouse?

Data Warehouse 52

Data Warehouse Agile Data Modelling Data Quality 52

Cprime

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This strategy ensures a more holistic view of resource allocation, one that aligns closely with the organization’s long-term goals and agile principles. By embracing PB within LPM, businesses can achieve a more agile, responsive, and strategic approach to budgeting and resource allocation.

Portfolio Management 52

Portfolio Management Agile Innovation Planning 52

Vitality Chicago

MAY 26, 2022

I have the pleasure of reviewing Bob Galen’s Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching book. Previous to this book, one of the books I gifted the most to new coaches and Scrum Masters was Lyssa Adkins book, Coaching Agile Teams. Extraordinary Badass Agile Coaching is a badass agile coaching book.

Agile 79

Agile Vision Planning Project Management 79

Agilemania

AUGUST 28, 2022

Make sure to incorporate these strategies to market your brand and make a big impact. In comparison, digital marketing lets you determine a specific target audience and deliver personalized marketing messages to that specific audience for high conversions. Marketing strategies that will help your business stay relevant and trending.

Digital 59

Digital Artificial Intelligence Customer Experience Customer Experience 59

CMW Lab Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

unprecedented agility! unprecedented agility! As for my personal recommendation, I tried both paths and this experience made me a strong believer of “Go Deep” strategy. Virtually every company becomes caught by the business process idea, sooner or later. The BPM promises – sales up! costs down! The BPM promises – sales up!

Agile 52

Agile Business Process Management Documentation Monitoring 52

Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The best way to achieve early ROI with Agile is to create a delivery engine where the teams at the execution level are aligned with the business strategy. Or, to learn more about how we think about and approach Agile Transformation, you can download our Agile Transformation white paper here: www.leadingagile.com/whitepaper.

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Agile Planning Vision Project Management 117

Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MARCH 4, 2022

A roadmap is a strategic plan or a GPS for the business that defines a goal or desired outcome and includes the major steps or milestones needed to reach it. It also serves as a communication tool, a high-level document that helps articulate strategic thinking—the why—behind both the goal and the plan for getting there.

Business Analysis 52

Business Analysis Business Analysis Documentation Planning 52

Monday

JUNE 21, 2022

From manufacturing to software development, if you’re in the business of project management, going more than a week without hearing about Agile solutions is nigh impossible. If you’re reaching that critical point where you’re ready to find out exactly what an Agile solution is, you’ve come to the right place. What is an Agile solution?

Agile 52

Agile Project Management Visualization Planning 52

Monday

JULY 27, 2021

Randy Pausch, an American educator, and professor is quoted as saying, “The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.”. It’s where ownership of tasks and small goals are assigned to ensure teams stay on track. Learn more.

Project Management 52

Project Management Portfolio Management Agile Planning 52