Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In the scrum framework, sprint planning sets the pillar for the successful execution of the agile project. Therefore, when our team organizes the sprint planning ideally helps to establish a real sprint goal. However, sprint planning can sometimes be confusing for the entire scrum team. What is Sprint Planning?

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Insight Software

JANUARY 24, 2024

As any CFO knows, budgeting and planning processes are complex. In addition, external market factors require that your planning process not only be able to address your current goals but also be agile enough to quickly respond to industry innovations, economic shifts, and more.

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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I am always on the lookout for great books. Recently a fellow Agile Coach recommended General Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams book to me. Wow, I was really blown away by this book! It is a great book with many lessons for Agile Leaders ! I hope that you will be inspired to read the book.

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Analysts Corner

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This time, we’ve got a collection of stories about business analysis, data, agile, and product and project management. We have some interesting write ups about agile, including the future of BA in the world of agile and scrum, and a very poetic comparison between writing good user stories and writing good haiku.

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Insight Software

OCTOBER 2, 2023

insightsoftware recently purchased Power ON, a tool that sits on top of Power BI and allows you to do your planning via write-back all in the same platform. As a global leader in financial software solutions, insightsoftware acquired Power ON to enhance Power BI and provide users with a better financial planning option.

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Insight Software

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s critical to have a meaningful financial plan in place, to have realistic targets to achieve. Unfortunately, traditional models for financial planning and budgeting are increasingly strained as businesses strive to cope with change. Many are seeking leaner, more agile budgeting and planning options. Access Resource.

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Insight Software

DECEMBER 5, 2023

insightsoftware is thrilled to be recognized as a Niche Player in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Financial Planning Software. Earning a place in this MQ is a testament to our commitment to delivering the best budgeting and planning solutions for our customers. What is the Gartner Magic Quadrant?

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Insight Software

DECEMBER 22, 2021

To achieve better alignment between these two functions, many companies have adopted a different approach, sales and operations planning (S&OP). It’s about coordinating and streamlining all functions in the value chain–from strategic planning to forecasting and demand planning, inventory management, strategic sourcing, and distribution.

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Analysts Corner

DECEMBER 19, 2023

yours, Igor [link] Requirements elicitation 1) Forging a Collaborative Customer–Development Partnership by Karl Wiegers Excellent software products are based on excellent requirements. Excellent requirements result from effective collaboration between developers and customers, and in particular, actual users: a partnership.

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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. There is also another possibility, where BAs partner with POs to collaborate in developing great products. And, in fact, it is a great possibility.

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Passionate BA

JULY 3, 2023

In my humble opinion, it is a brief but helpful overview, more of a taste of a book, which is excellent. Useful DevTools Tips and Tricks by Patrick Brosset with Smashing Magazine Browser Dev Tools is a great help, even for business analysts! Did you ever make mockups out of existing elements in Dev Tools? Case reviews.

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Insight Software

JULY 28, 2023

Because retail and food service businesses are uniquely positioned within the market landscape, the need for a reliable budgeting and planning process is crucial. An inflexible planning process that relies on static reports and siloed data isn’t going to cut it.

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Insight Software

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Enterprise planning is going mainstream, as powerful yet affordable software technology has provided the means for small and midsize companies to develop highly collaborative, cross-functional approaches to strategic planning, governance, budgeting, operational planning, and more. Plan for Agility and Adaptability.

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Software Craftsmanship – Agile methodologies have become the most popular approach around the world. Software Craftsmanship: Rooted in the Agile Manifesto Written in 2001, the Agile Manifesto was crafted by 17 recognized specialists in the world of software development. What Is Software Craftsmanship?

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Business Analysis Articles 15 Tips for Outsourced Software Development Success by Karl Wiegers Image by wirestock on Freepik I would love to start August’s digest with another great article by Karl Wiegers. This comprehensive guide is a valuable resource for anyone involved in outsourcing software development.

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Vitality Chicago

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I taught an Agile Training course recently and felt I did a pretty good job. Here are my key takeaways: People want agile training that is customized and specific to them. Some people focus on the tool. People Want Customized Agile Training. That is because of the nature of Agile. Agile itself is open.

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Insight Software

JULY 2, 2021

FSN’s most recent research, “Agility in Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting” , confirms and quantifies the compelling advantages of modernizing and digitizing the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process. Creating agile scenario plans and rolling forecasts is simply not feasible in spreadsheets.

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Insight Software

MAY 5, 2021

Strategic planning ranks high on a company’s list of priorities, and equally high on the list of challenges. Consider the eye-opening results of a recent survey : 94% of CFOs plan to change their risk strategy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many disruptive forces in play at once, strategic planning is critical.

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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. “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. The more time the Product Owner can spend with the team on a daily basis, the less time is needed in rigorous planning meetings.

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Insight Software

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

If the world was fairly predictable, financial planning would be a relatively straightforward process. As business leaders around the world have learned, major events can appear out of nowhere to drastically alter business conditions, demanding a level of agility and responsiveness above and beyond anything ever seen before.

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Vitality Chicago

JANUARY 2, 2022

Are you looking for some great agile articles? The Best Agile Blogs of 2021. #1 1 – The 5 Best Agile Books for 2021. It is not just a list of 5 books – I’ve actually created a list of 5 Best Agile Books specific to each of the following audiences: Scrum Masters. Agile Coaches.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

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Vitality Chicago

MARCH 2, 2021

I am thrilled to announce the second edition of Agile Project Management. This is a long overdue update of the book I first published in 2015. And it is the best agile book I’ve written (so far). For a limited time, you can get a copy of the 2nd Edition of Agile Project Management for free. Defining Agile.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2016

What is a Release Plan? A release plan forecasts how a major release is developed. It’s a type of project plan —albeit an agile one—and it usually covers the next three to six months. Release plans come in different shapes and sizes depending on the process used. How do the Release Plan and Roadmap Relate?

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Insight Software

JULY 14, 2022

You can’t plan for emergencies, geopolitics, or sudden problems that you have no control over. But you can mitigate risks of business cash flow problems by having the right tools at your side. Business cash flow planning can get you out of a jam and save your company. Why is business cash flow planning important?

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Insight Software

APRIL 29, 2021

The traditional financial planning and analysis process (FP&A) is built around a “business as usual” presumption. In the first case, you can rely on financial plans as being fairly static and predictable. For business leaders, these two extremes call for very different approaches to financial planning and analysis (FP&A).

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Insight Software

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, managing budgets in large organizations comes with its own set of challenges, often exacerbated by outdated tools and fragmented processes. Different departments and regions have their own tools and methods, making it difficult to consolidate and communicate effectively.

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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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Insight Software

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The “What” and “Why” of Demand Planning and Forecasting. To allocate assets effectively and operate more efficiently, supply chain managers have turned to the science of demand planning and forecasting. The Four Elements of Demand Planning. Successful Demand Planning and Forecasting.

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Insight Software

MAY 8, 2024

Enhancing Your Application Insights Through Embedding Analytics Download Now “In this day and age, there is no need for software vendors or companies building internal applications to lose focus by developing proprietary analytics tools. The most popular BI initiatives were data security, data quality, and reporting.

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Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

If you want to stir people up, just call one of the popular agile approaches by the wrong label. We are Not an Agile Methodology! Not that long ago, the Disciplined Agile people underwent a change where they stopped referring to DA as a “process decision framework” and began calling Disciplined Agile a toolkit.

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Vitality Chicago

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This may sound like an easy question, but what is Agile Leadership ? I’ve written all about Agile Leaders for example in The Agile Leaders Role in Transformation and How Leaders Create Agility – 3 Key Steps. In fact, in 2020, this blog was named to the Hubspot top 20 Agile Leadership blogs.

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Vitality Chicago

MAY 30, 2021

Sadly, it is also the agile technique that is most frequently butchered by hacks. Books on the Retrospective. For those of you who still read books, there are two great books on retrospectives. The first is Norm Kerth’s 2001 book, Project Retrospectives; a Handbook for Team Reviews. Let’s dive in.

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Managed Agile

APRIL 28, 2022

I’ve heard people ask “What is “hyper agile?” “Hyper Agile” Definitions. From agile to hyperagile: the destination and the journey. What Does “Hyper Agile” Really Mean? ” This is a relatively new term so I decided to do some research on it. ” Cavarec, Y. &

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell took it on himself to do something about it. He introduced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is based on following 10 Lean-Agile principles-. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. What is SAFe?

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I introduced the concept of #NoEstimates in a recent agile training class I was teaching at Northwestern University. In defense of my students, the class was titled Agile Estimating and Planning!). Duarte wrote a book about it called NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

[link] In this article, I demonstrate how it is possible to use Chat GPT as an assistant (or helper) in executing business analysis tasks based on a case study that deals with developing an application by a startup. It is widely used as a reference and training tool for business analysts. This is a human decision.

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