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Velocity & User Stories – Too Many Teams Are Looking At It Wrong!
BA Squared
JUNE 9, 2020
Velocity – What Does It Really Mean? Ask just about any agile team what metrics they track and “velocity” comes out. Teams rally around increasing their velocity, focusing on speed and hanging their team successes on this metric. Additionally, many teams report their velocity increase to leadership claiming agile success! Some may even go as far as comparing and benchmarking against other teams.
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White Paper – Integrate Augmented Analytics And Digital Transformation To Achieve Continuous Business Improvement
ElegantJ BI
JUNE 9, 2020
Wise business managers are embracing the Digital Transformation initiative in an effort to improve accuracy, productivity and the integration of technology and analytics within the organization. Augmented Analytics is a logical and critical addition to the Dx initiative and will significantly enhance the success of the Digital Transformation agenda.
The role of UX research now and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
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There has never been a challenge like COVID-19. Not just for businesses, but for every individual. Some organisations have had revenues decimated, traffic come to a halt, markets practically vanish, supply chains cut off, conversion rates fluctuate like never before, and of course mass furloughing. I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a U
5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales
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Why Scaling Agile is Essential for Your Organization | Analyst Catalyst Blog
Analyst Catalyst Blog
JUNE 11, 2020
Unveiling the Agile Operating Model
Leading Agile
JUNE 9, 2020
New strategies or dramatic shifts in existing strategies require an examination of an organization’s operating model. Agile is a new business paradigm, but few established companies understand what needs to change to make their business Agile. Most think it is about speed and flexibility. They forget about efficiency and resiliency, key fundamentals without which companies fail to achieve their desired speed.
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White Paper: Integrate Augmented Analytics And Digital Transformation To Achieve Continuous Business Improvement
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Mobile BI dashboards help ICU Medical change decision-making process
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ICU Medical is a leading global medical devices and accessories company selling medical devices for oncology, vascular therapy and critical care. The company has thousands of products in its portfolio so turned to industry-specific business intelligence software to track its business performance. Creating mobile BI dashboards has significantly changed the way ICU do business because now everyone has access to accurate real-time data; decision-making is the responsibility of all.
How to Turn Your Existing Data Into New Revenue
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Blog. Time to make your data work for you. In Hacking the Analytic App Economy , we show you how to build a data monetization strategy that leverages your company’s data to open new revenue opportunities, drive value, and help you thrive in the new era of analytic apps. What makes the world’s most innovative and successful companies different from the rest?
Role and Responsibility of An Enterprise Agile Coach
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The Enterprise Coaching for Agility is an emerging field as Agile implementations have expanded beyond the individual team level to consider all manner of organizational challenges. Enterprise Coaching consists of a set of skills which enable practitioners to catalyse the adaptation and transformation of organizational agility in alignment with the organization’s vision, goals and needs in today’s UVCA world.
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Dynamic vs static financial reporting:key differences
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Managers can no longer afford to wait for weekly or monthly financial reports to review business performance; they need to make decisions immediately. Despite this, many businesses are still reporting financial statements in the traditional way — as static PDFs circulated amongst a small group of people. If a stakeholder has any questions about the figures, finding more information from a static report can be difficult as the answers often lie in the data behind the numbers.
Time Series Analysis: Definition, Benefits, Models
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What Is Time Series Analysis and how does it benefit a data analyst? We look at a number of models may be employed to help describe time series.
How Project Leaders Can Guide Their Projects Through Times of Change
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One thing you can absolutely count on when managing projects is change. It is inevitable that you will confront at least one — and more likely many — changes throughout a project. Some of these you won’t be able to anticipate, like a pandemic, but most you can plan for. How you handle those changes will be a key factor in the success of a project. “In today’s dynamic and competitive world, a project manager’s key challenge is coping with frequent unexpected events,” writes Alexander Laufer , dir
Everything You Need To Know About SSRS Subscriptions
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Automate, Schedule & Deploy SSRS Data Driven Subscriptions. Hundreds of companies of varying verticals and sizes rely on SQL Server’s reporting system. Known as SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) , it is used to design and generate reports on a scheduled or adhoc basis. SSRS has a basic scheduler designed for simple automated report distribution, but what if your business requires complex event driven and data driven subscriptions?
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5 Ways to Increase the Productivity of Your Customer Support Team
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What is TypeScript and why should you care?
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Last week, we had a Lunch & Learn session on Zoom, which is basically a learning/sharing type of online workshop. Every week, we encourage colleagues to share their insight into different topics that we can all learn from. I hosted this “Intro to TypeScript” workshop for those of us who’ve never used it before and I thought it would be a great read for our online audience as well.
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The Dark Side of a Successful Agile Implementation
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A product company decides to gain back it’s lost glory and get back up at the roost which they felt was their rightful place. This is a company that once revolutionized the domain they belonged to, a company people longed to be associated with, be it as a customer or be it as an employee. Everything was going good and… The post The Dark Side of a Successful Agile Implementation appeared first on Agilemania.
Research Studies Reveal Shortcomings in Many Data Literacy Projects: Don’t Let This Happen to You!
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Data Literacy is a hot topic in business today. As businesses struggle to remain competitive and to do more with less, every enterprise is looking for a way to optimize resources, and to get the most out of every team member. To do that, the business management team must leverage the knowledge and skills of each team member as those skills relate to their role and their responsibilities.
Everything You Need to Know About Business Intelligence
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Informative Stats: The Growth and Value of Business Intelligence. The first known usage of the term “ business intelligence ” was by Richard Millar Devens in 1865. It was not until 1989 when Gartner analyst Howard Dresner again brought the phrase “business intelligence” into common terminology. As business intelligence became a commonly known phrase in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, an abundance of new vendors joined the market.
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