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The Importance of Connecting Agile to Business Value

Leading Agile

In our experience, executives are typically charged with improving predictability, quality, cost savings, product fit, early ROI, and innovation or some combination. Transformation is an investment, and the results of that investment need to be communicated on a regular cadence.

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Improving SAFe Through Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. The team-level cadence is called Iterations but other than that different name is almost identical to the Scrum Sprint.

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Using OKRs with Scrum and Evidence Based Management

Scrum.org

Build internal capability to innovate or improve time to deliver value. Embedding OKRs into Scrum's Inspect/Adapt Cadence. Importantly, EBM provides value-based metrics to use with Key Value Areas (KVAs) to help executives avoid the trap of: Metrics devolving to delivery milestones. Evolving the Sprint Review to inspect OKR metrics.

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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

Scrum.org

They implement the company’s strategy through the product and work on product-related tasks such as pricing, packaging, releasing, innovating, branding, advertising, etc. They study and do the work in a shared cadence (Sprint). As per the Org Topologies™ map, the Product Manager is located in the upper left part of (C0/C1) the map.

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Agile Still Works

Scrum.org

So online tooling doesn’t guarantee productivity, let alone innovation or creativity. Management Innovation. How can we find the right cadence for collaboration and when should we collaborate? But, we will most surely not overcome the challenges we face by turning our management layer into the company police force. .

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Improving SAFe thru Professional Scrum

Scrum.org

SAFe's perspective is that "Nothing beats an Agile Team" and it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. SAFe has a cadence at the Team and Program levels. The team-level cadence is called Iterations but other than that different name is almost identical to the Scrum Sprint.

SCRUM 122
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Are you having Fun?

Scrum.org

They have these conversations at the appropriate cadence, for appropriate duration's in order to elevate the transparency in their work. They need some slack to fuel their innovation and creativity. This directly relates to the Agile values : “Individuals and Interactions Over Process and Tools”. They need time to have some fun.

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