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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Data Pine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

But with so many business analytics books out there and so little time, how do you decide which ones are worth your time? But before we unveil our definitive rundown of intelligence and business analytics books, let’s explore some facts, figures, and insights that will inspire you while steering your success in the exciting world of BI.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 10, 2025

I came across the book “Radical Product Thinking” from Rhadika Dutt and I couldn’t help thinking how the elements that are part of the… Continue reading on Analysts corner

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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. And we want people to think in small batches.

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Vitality Chicago

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

I am excited to share with you my discussion with agility and resilience coach Anjali Leon. This is our first agile coach interview in what I plan as a series of discussions intended to bring some diversity of thinking and opinions and to amplify voices that may not otherwise be heard. I am calling it Fresh Agile Voices or FAVs!

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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-. Most Common Reasons to Use Scaled Agile Framework. What is SAFe?

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The sad reality is that though well-intentioned, most agile transformations fail. To be clear, agile transformation success is different than agile project success. Success rates for agile tend to be significantly higher than those for traditional approaches, and there are plenty of data points to support that.

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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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Vitality Chicago

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

BLUF: This post outlines 10 Ways You Can Help Your Agile Initiative Succeed whether that is adopting Kanban or Scrum or taking on an enterprise agile transformation. . I recently wrote a post about the 10 ways that Agile Transformations will fail. It may actually be best to avoid calling your initiative an agile transformation.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Requirements elicitation : we will learn how the use cases are still relevant in the age of agile, the importance of requirements traceability, and best practices in requirements analysis. Use cases have fallen out of fashion in recent years, being largely replaced by user stories on agile projects. There, I said it, and I’m not sorry.

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Think Agile

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012. This book gave me almost everything I was looking for! Of course!

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Vitality Chicago

AUGUST 31, 2022

Agile ways of working have become extremely popular since 2001 when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was published. But does agile work in all contexts? Deciding When to Choose Agile over Traditional Approaches. You can read my review of Harbott’s book here.] Context Counts!

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. Some fellow authors include the stakeholders, for instance, Steve Haines in his book The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , whereas others don’t, for example, Marty Cagan in his book Inspired. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2021

Some view it as the product vision , others equate it to the product’s value proposition. In figure 1, the vision is the basis for choosing the user and business goals, and the latter create the context for determining the right product goal. It does not intend to prescribe how the practices it offers should be applied.

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 10, 2024

Frameworks like Dual Track Agile from Marty Cagan’s book “Inspired” influenced organizations to split their efforts into product discovery and delivery. Dual Track Agile The main shift on the premise of product delivery, compared to traditional requirements engineering, is that teams have to discover what the user’s problems are.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 24, 2020

Focused initiatives and dedicated Teams are created to deliver on key projects… Agile-like. As we move through undoubtedly one of the most unprecedented crisis, how can the practices we learned from the Agile Teams strengthen Southwest’s ability to adapt once again? About David Hawks | Founder and Chief Agilist @ Agile Velocity.

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Cprime

APRIL 12, 2022

The concept of “scaling” within the world of Agile development is something that is often confusing because there is no single “book of knowledge” that provides a formal definition. Scaling agility follows a similar thought pattern. Here are a few ideas that I can offer you for your consideration when scaling Agile teams.

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BA Squared

JULY 28, 2020

Whether you are agile or not, acceptance criteria are critical to understanding, and creating a shared understanding on the team, of what the stakeholders and user need to see, experience and validate before approving and agreeing that the changes (requirements, user stories, etc…) are working as intended and ready to be implemented.

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Passionate BA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Going through the rules, the article emphasizes the pivotal role of ensuring that all parties involved share a common vision and understanding of project goals. Lean UX & Agile: Study Guide by Anna Kaley Credit: NN/g A study guide from NN/g, created in 2022, is now revised! Internal Product Management is Hard. How to Mitigate This?

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Leading Agile

JULY 19, 2021

We are at the midway point in our Agile Transformation-focused exploration of Stephen R. I’m sure we’ve all said it in business and even relationships, but how does Covey intend it towards being highly effective and what does it mean to an Agile Transformation? With that, let’s now consider Habit 4 – Think Win/Win.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Last but not least, the product team should include a coach who might be an experienced Scrum Master , agile coach, or product coach. The vision describes the ultimate purpose for creating the product and the positive change it should bring about. Let’s take a look at them.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Maybe in the future the X400 will have near-field communication to solve that customer’s problem, but what’s the next step for your engineering team towards realizing that vision? Destinations are answers to the question you have in mind when you booked the trip. The difficulty comes in the quality of your vision.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does.

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Analysts Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Leadership in analytics today calls for agility and foresight. Strategic Skills: Finally, the apex is strategic skills which involve promoting a data-driven culture or shaping the long-term vision of an organization. Pick up books or listen to podcasts focusing on leadership and soft skills. It’s not a sprint but a marathon.

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Agile is one such discipline that keeps evolving at a reasonable pace and hence agile practitioners must always be on their toes to be relevant and perform their role effectively. Agile blogs act as a valuable source of the latest and most up-to-date information on various subject areas from experienced professionals.

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Leading Agile

MAY 13, 2022

A major problem in many organizations today is that they are not Agile enough to respond to changing customer and market needs. Leaders in a non-Agile organization typically believe that individuals are the unit of productivity. Leaders in a non-Agile organization often believe they are responsible for their department, not the system.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 12, 2021

Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, with regard to effective Agile Transformation. Therein lies the nugget of gold that leads us back to effective Agile Transformation. We’ve talked about how an Agile Transformation is a massive exercise in change management.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Identifying and addressing the key risks in the product strategy is best done iteratively, as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize. You can find more advice on collaborative decision-making in my book How to Lead in Product Management.).

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This clip is from Mike’s series on the 6 Key Business Drivers of Agility. 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. They will say things like, “I’m a hint Jeff Sutherland wrote a book.”

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Agilemania

JANUARY 12, 2022

Since then, Dean Leffingwell’s brainchild, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become the popular emerging agile framework for business agility according to the 15th State of Agile Survey. . SAFe’s ability to achieve business agility is possible due its four core values that include- . But what is SAFe? .

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Roman Pichler

MAY 13, 2024

Note that this perspective is in line with an agile development framework like Scrum. 4] I first introduced the elements shown in Figure 2 in my book Strategize , 2 nd ed. [5] The maximum period a product strategy is stable for is a product life cycle stage, as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize.

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Think Agile

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012. This book gave me almost everything I was looking for! Of course!

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

Such a map visualises the steps users take and any issues they encounter like waiting, delays, and errors (as I explain in more detail in my book Strategize ). Capture your decisions and document the new strategy for your product, for instance by creating a new, forward-looking Product Vision Board.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

. > Keep reading… 4) The Power of Product Vision & Strategy by Kavindi Bogahawatte Have you ever embarked on a journey with absolutely no idea about where you want to go, and no clue how to get there? This is exactly what happens when your product lacks a Product Vision and a Product Strategy. > Think about it.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board. As the person in charge of the product, you should lead the discovery and development effort.

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