BA Squared

AUGUST 16, 2021

Agile has been around now for 20 years (agile as a term in software), whereas the practices have been around much longer. After 20 years, there seems to be continued conversation about the BA role on agile teams. If Agile teams don’t have BAs they still do analysis, they have to! The question is how good are they at it?

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Domo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

At a time unlike any this world has been through over the last century, organizations that place an emphasis on agility and innovation have a distinct competitive advantage in their marketplace no matter what may come next, experts believe. “We And when you listen with receptiveness , you inspire questions, which lead to innovation.

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Cprime

MARCH 7, 2024

Why Agile transformations Fail FAQs addressed in this article: What is the primary reason Agile transformations fail? – The primary reason Agile transformations fail is due to general resistance to organizational change or culture clash, as identified by 47% of respondents in the 17th Annual State of Agile Report.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

– A product-centric operating framework is a strategic approach that organizes teams, processes, and systems around the delivery of product and service offerings, prioritizing customer value, rapid innovation, and continuous improvement. How does a product-centric model enhance organizational agility?

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Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This week I was in Dubai for the latest edition of the SAP Partner Innovation Meeting. Innovating Faster. First, everybody wants to innovate faster, to be more agile, to be able to react quickly to changes in today’s uncertain business environments. But how do they do that?

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At Dreamforce 2022 , Salesforce Co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor showed us an exciting vision of a connected, data-driven world in the face of rapid, global change. While we can’t predict the future, we can work to stay agile and succeed in the face of change. September 27, 2022. This is data’s moment.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

At Dreamforce 2022 , Salesforce Co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor showed us an exciting vision of a connected, data-driven world in the face of rapid, global change. While we can’t predict the future, we can work to stay agile and succeed in the face of change. September 27, 2022. This is data’s moment.

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Growing Agile

OCTOBER 13, 2021

These are: Envision Strategic Signals Innovation by Design Iterate. The envisioning aspect sets the vision and provides the aspirational description of the company, product or project. Innovation by design should start with empathy. Agility is at the heart of the Iterate aspect.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The term “ agile product management ” means precisely what it sounds like. At its foundation, agile product management is a reaction to the widespread usage of agile software development approaches such as scrum or kanban. How Agile Can Product Management Benefit Your Business?

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My Agile Partner

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of Agile methodologies, Large-Scale Agile frameworks like the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) have gained prominence. Within this context, the role of a Tribe Manager has emerged as a pivotal position responsible for ensuring alignment, collaboration, and success in large-scale Agile organizations.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

An Agile Transformation Roadmap is all about getting people to change and having that change be sticky. Our Agile Transformation Roadmap, our change model, is all about getting everyone to see what’s possible, creating safety for the people and the business, and building trust at every step of the Transformation.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Agilemania

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in agile project management is determining what tasks are needed to complete a project, how long each should take, and who needs to carry them out. The agile release plan helps in aligning the teams by addressing multiple aspects that can contribute to creative and innovative problem-solving.

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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. Exploit vs. Explore is Better than Agile over Traditional. Context Counts!

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Vitality Chicago

APRIL 29, 2022

I try to do what I can to keep up with the new agile books being released so that I can maintain the popular blog, The 5 Best Agile Books of 2021. Doing Agile Righ t was published in 2020 by three principals of the consulting firm Bain & Company. Those are not household names in agile circles though I have heard of Rigby.

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Cprime

MAY 11, 2023

This is the third 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. In the second, we covered why emotional intelligence is vital for Lean-Agile leaders, and the value of instilling team thinking into the organization.

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Agilemania

JANUARY 21, 2022

A career in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is financially rewarding. Being a globally recognized certification, SAFe is a niche agile framework that has tons of job opportunities. Here’s a guide containing the Top Scaled Agile Interview Questions and Answers in 2022 that’ll be of great help. . Leading SAFe® 5.1

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Core Values of Scaled Agile Framework ®. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the world’s leading framework for business agility. No amount of tactical training can substitute the need for clear vision, the goal state, shared responsibilities, and personal accountability to achieve success. Improved predictability.

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Bintelligence

JANUARY 22, 2020

5 Executives and 100 Companies and Products Leading in Innovation in 2020 Business Intelligence Group Announces the Winners of the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards. Philadelphia, PA—January 22, 2020—Today, the Business Intelligence Group named 5 executives and 100 companies as leaders and winners of the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, SAFe® is the world’s leading framework for Business Agility. The seven core competencies each have three dimensions making it a total of twenty-one dimensions to enable Business Agility. These dimensions contain some of the practices, patterns, and guidelines to Scale Agility across the enterprise.

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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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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At Dreamforce 2022 , Salesforce Co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor showed us an exciting vision of a connected, data-driven world in the face of rapid, global change. While we can’t predict the future, we can work to stay agile and succeed in the face of change. September 27, 2022. This is data’s moment.

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Clarasys

APRIL 21, 2021

When implementing agile principles and methods there are several questions that must be considered to guide you with decision making. Applying agile to teams – what is your ambition and how mature are your team members and organisation? Agile, scrum, kanban, extreme programming (XP), SAFe, Lean – what’s right for you?

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Marutitech

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The answer to all these questions is Agile release planning. . Agile release planning is a product management technique that helps you with your software development and agile project plan. It acts as a project roadmap to provide the directions to your product goals and visions. What is Release Planning in Agile?

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 5, 2022

Yves Lombaerts, Sales Manager for the Belgian market, picked up our Global Innovation Evangelist Timo Elliott for an interesting ride to SAP’s offices in Brussels. Timo: I love coming to Belgium, I always notice several great innovation projects here. We see that they don’t always have the budget to invest heavily in innovation.

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It goes without saying that one needs to keep updating his/her knowledge in the chosen field, especially a dynamic one, to be effective and possibly innovative. 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.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Key advantages include: Improved Decision-Making Agility: Data-driven insights allow companies to react to industry changes, customer behaviors, or operational needs in a timely manner, giving them a competitive edge. Conclusion The potential of data to drive smarter, more strategic decisions is undeniable.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 27, 2023

Many organizational transformation projects fail because the stakeholders do not share the same vision. Business analysis concepts and techniques can build an environment of collaboration and clear communication, where everyone expresses their points of view and build a shared vision of understanding about the change to be carried out.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager. The Brave New Agile World.

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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

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Managed Agile

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The basic approach for doing traditional plan-driven project management hasn’t changed significantly since the 1950’s and 1960’s and that has been heavily impacted by the influence of Agile. Yet the watchwords of the new decade are innovation and speed, service and quality.” They are geared toward efficiency and control.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It was circa 2011 when Dean Leffingwell decided to conceptualize the Scaled Agile Framework. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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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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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 24, 2020

From 9/11, selling tickets online in 1995, fuel hedging in the early 1990s, to the very beginning with Herb going to the Texas Supreme Court to begin flying, and creating the Ten Minute Turn in the early 1970s, Southwest has met and overcome various challenges with innovative techniques coming from passionate Employees and fearless Leadership.

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