Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2023

Muscial Interlude) The Challenges of Empowring Agile Teams I’m Dennis Stevens, Chief Methodologist at a company called LeadingAgile. I think there’s an interesting challenge in our industry, too, that the Agile community has been fighting for a long time to be allowed to be empowered. What does it mean to empower teams?

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Project Pulse Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? September 27, 2022 : Join 200-plus peers at the 45th Hands-on Agile Meetup: FAST: An Innovative Way to Scale with James Shore. “The To help with inspection, Scrum provides cadence in the form of its five events.”.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Ultimately, as Scrum Masters, we have the best shot at influencing others and achieving our goals when we show up: Connected to our purpose. We can be proactive in our approach, reducing the time between seeing issues and influencing others so we can avoid them or minimize their impact. Open and curious. How to show up for your team.

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Inloox

JULY 1, 2021

Agility should no longer be a new term for most project managers. High flexibility, adaptability and increased communication are just a few of the benefits that have led to significant improvements through the introduction of agile work processes in organizations. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 12, 2023

Goal setting is an essential tool supporting agility in complex environments. Even though I help agile teams to learn about and embrace uncertainty, I need to remind myself regularly to let go of trying to have control. 6: Establish a cadence to inspect and adapt different goals . Goal setting is a process. Practice helps!

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Agile working agreement is a crucial component of successful teamwork in the realm of project management. Additionally, we will provide actionable steps to create, maintain, and measure the impact of an agile working agreement. Maintaining and Updating Your Agile Working Agreement An agile working agreement is not a static document.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 22, 2020

No sustainable agility is achieved. One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. Organizations discover that fighting complexity with complexity is not helping. Think of your work, make a list. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. Agile to Agility Website. So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen now.

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Velociteach

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The team’s size, maturity, tenure, and proximity influence the ease of coordinating their efforts. Existing organizational assets, such as tools, templates, and standard practices, influence the Plan. There is a range of options, from predictive to agile. Complex efforts where the cost of change is low may prefer agile.

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Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Teams delivering on a predictable cadence earn the trust of the business. Hold Teams, as well as overall organization, accountable for producing a working tested increment of product on a regular cadence. Dependencies always limit business Agility. It involves more than just IT. It requires the entire organization.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

was launched by Scaled Agile Inc. in 2016 as a method to help organizations scale up their existing agile practices. But isn’t that also the reason behind organizations adopting Scaled Agile framework in its glorious entirety? What was the need for Scaled Agile Inc. What was the need for Scaled Agile Inc.

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Leading Answers

JANUARY 16, 2021

Agile projects typically prioritize the backlog based on business value or perceived needs. Later in 2006, I wrote about  risk adjusted backlogs  and  Agile Risk Management , explaining how to insert threat avoidance and threat reduction activities in the backlog. What is a Risk-Adjusted Backlog?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 6, 2019

When used as designed, OKRs can have a massive positive influence on organizations. Once about four or five key results are determined for each objective, it is the job of an OKR Champion (servant leader) to coach and guide the team in executing on a cadence towards the objectives.

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Leading Agile

MAY 10, 2021

I walked into the conference room to meet with the VP of enterprise Agile Transformation. It’s been three weeks since I joined a team of highly experienced Agile coaches. The VP stated the Agile teams were in ‘chaos’ since being taught the concept of Lean Agile portfolios. Needless to say, it was about me. What is trust?

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Project Management Essentials

AUGUST 3, 2019

Experienced agile coaches and practitioners develop a sixth-sense. They can quickly assess the health of an agile project or team just as doctors do with their patients. In my agile training and consulting practice, I have witnessed similar symptoms when an organization is struggling with its agile adoption.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This is true whether our organization uses a stage-gate approach, an agile approach, or some hybrid of the two. Their influence was believed to be essential for the creation of great works and the advancement of civilization. Agile teams deftly or clumsily dance to avoid potential pitfalls and emerging issues. Challenges abound.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 21, 2020

Like many Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Agile Managers, I am beginning to understand organizations are complex adaptive systems. Another example is how the Scrum guide separates activities from events: Events have a clear time-box, cadence, subject and participants. There is also a deeper, systemic meaning to Dyer’s quote.

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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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Leading Agile

MAY 17, 2021

Velocity, while seemingly a simple measure of team output, is quite often one of the most misconstrued metrics by organizations new to Agile ways of working – by both managers and the teams themselves. Be vulnerable. We don’t have to have all the answers all the time.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . Soundcloud. – Yeah. When did we first meet?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It sets the tone for the interactions that take place between team members and it heavily influences the values of the workplace. In turn, it heavily influences how employees feel about the company. It’s the first impression that’s derived from the practices and “rituals” of the work community.

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Gunther Verheyen

DECEMBER 20, 2019

No sustainable agility is achieved. One aspect of ‘complexity’ are the parameters, variables and events that influence an activity and its course. Organizations discover that fighting complexity with complexity is not helping. Think of your work, make a list. It is why Sprints, as container events, have a fixed time-box.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

How do Agile teams create a project schedule? Planio: Best for teams of all sizes (Agile and traditional). Stakeholders can have an excessive amount of influence on your project schedule. If you’re using Agile, you’ll want to determine a sprint cadence that will let you hit your quarterly OKRs. (We

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

What do we have to do to make Agile tangible for our executives? Are Executives Getting in the Way of Agile? One of the challenges we face is the perception that executives don’t care about Agile. There’s a belief that executives are the number one obstacle to successful Agile transformation in organizations.

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Wrike

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While we all want to see into the future of project management trends, these current industry ideas are sure to influence project management teams for months to come: Improving communication across blended teams. Embracing Agile as a means to combine strategy with output. A continued concentration on Agile methodology.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Read: How to find the best resource planning tool Factors impacting agency utilization rates Agency utilization rates are influenced by many internal and external factors. But keep in mind that not every team works the same way, or needs the same interactive cadence.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Continuing our theme of helping Agile teams understand the Kanban Method, so they can effectively adopt it for their improvement efforts, I am again honored to publish a guest article by another great friend of ours – Dave White. Value-system Influences. Both are heavily influenced by value-systems. Introduction.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 6, 2017

For example, technology deliverables might be completed in an agile manner whereas change management deliverables such as training collateral get produced in a traditional manner. Another attribute which influences this is an understanding of who is delivering which work streams.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

This is Mike Cottmeyer's talk from AgileIndy 2021 on The Executive's Guide to Why Agile Transformation Fails. Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from AgileIndy, 2021 on “Why Agile Transformation Fails.” So I got involved with agile back in like 2003 and I was working in this company called CheckFree.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Product Owner is an innovator at heart and thus a value creator for customers and organizations if given a chance to work in an agile manner. The Product Owner owns the “why” and influences the “what” and “who,” but never the “how.” Roadmap planning is—like Product Backlog refinement—a continuous effort, just at an extended cadence.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 25, 2022

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 35,000-plus subscribers. ?? Technical excellence is a prerequisite of any form of business agility; preserving this state is a continuous process that requires a steady and substantial investment. Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile. ). ??

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 27, 2020

Read More : Why Engineers Despise Agile ). Irregular Sprint lengths: The Scrum Team has variable Sprint cadences. Or it is not free from outside influence. Do Not Miss Out: Join the 6,500-plus Strong ‘Hands-on Agile’ Slack Team. Sprint Planning Anti-Patterns of the Product Owner. What are we fighting for?

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Planio

APRIL 24, 2023

Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies 8. Planning sprints and running agile ceremonies With plans, approvals, and risks out of the way, it’s time for the fun to start. Find the right meeting cadence for you and your team. James’ team decides they like an Agile Kanban Board view.

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

We also want to announce if you haven't had a chance to come join us at the pm tribe calm please do as for my project managers that are listening out there my agile lists that are listening out there. Right agile is is such a big buzzword and It's It's, you know something I looking at you on the screen here. Don't mess with my sprint.

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Scrum.org

JULY 31, 2023

To realize this ambition, a transformation was initiated that aimed at implementing a uniform agile way of working with independent, integrally responsible customer journey teams. It covers three organizational design phases: Org scan of the pre-agile setup before August 2021. Org scan of the 2022 dVM pilot.

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Planio

MARCH 13, 2023

Check the status of tasks in your current milestone, download Agile charts , or consult your Gantt chart to quickly see (and report) on your progress. If you haven’t already, start by completing a project stakeholder analysis, identifying who has an influence over your project and who’s impacted by it. Target it to those who need it.

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