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How To Write Good User Stories – An Aggregate of User Story Articles

BA Squared

I am not advocating for big upfront analysis phases and processes, rather more of an iterative, lightweight, and ongoing analysis so that teams can continuously learn about the users and their needs in order to effectively prioritize the backlog and innovate. Go Moneyball. Do you remember Moneyball? This is the job of every BA.

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Exploit vs. Explore – When to Choose Agile over Traditional Approaches

Vitality Chicago

After reading Karim Harbott’s excellent book The 6 Enablers of Business Agility , I learned a better approach. You can read my review of Harbott’s book here.] Exploit work is not new or innovative. The strategy here is to compete through innovation and sometimes the reinvention of the entire organization.

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Do we really need SAFe, LeSS, Spotify, or Nexus to be agile?

Agilemania

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): SAFe was created by Dean Leffingwell and has been in existence since 2011. You can read all the experiments carried by them in two books written by them. Innovation or Improvement? Let’s try exploring what do they offer. Brief about all popular scaling frameworks. The current version is SAFe 5.1,

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MVP – Minimum Viable Product or Many Varied Perspectives?

Vitality Chicago

Eric Ries and his mentor Steve Blank did popularize the MVP and it was Eric that included it in his 2011 book, the Lean Startup. Benefits realization management is something you can read about in a book but it is only being practiced effectively by less than one in three organizations. Bottom Line – Use the MVP Approach.

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Ask A Lot of Questions and Listen, Listen, Listen – Stephen M. Arndt – Exclusive Interview With Our Cloud Thought Leader

Whizlabs

His expertise in optimizing the process, improving the operations, cost reduction, and innovation are aligned with his mission to make life changing and positive impacts on people and society using technology. In 2011, I founded Smarndt.com (taken from my first initials and last name) which focused on CIO Consulting. Follow Stephen M.

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Investing in the Right Skills to Lead Your Organization to Success, Are Power Skills the New Soft Skills?

Cprime

Let’s discuss how these skills really assist an organization wishing to transform, innovate and deliver value faster. When children are first introduced to literature, it is often in the form of picture books. Children learn to associate the pictures with meaning because they cannot read the words on the page (O’Neil, 2011).”

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Agile History and Archaeology

Managed Agile

Taiichi Ohno publishes the book “Toyota Production System – Beyond Large-Scale Production” describing LEAN, Lean Manufacturing and Kanban. “The thought process of lean was thoroughly described in the book The Machine That Changed the World (1990) by James P. 2011 – Scaled Agile Framework. Womack and Daniel T.

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