Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 16, 2023

In Chapter 5 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, I share several of my stories of helping organizations define their agile ways of working. If you’re married to a framework, it’s hard for leaders to develop agile cultures and mindsets.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The 15th episode of 5 Minutes with @NYIke focuses on the modernized role of the scrum master. . Ten years ago, scrum masters were the experts on agile methodologies and charged to coach teams through the process. The role needs recasting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. This highly adopted framework utilizes short iterations of work, called sprints, and daily meetings, called scrums, to tackle discrete portions of a project in succession until the project is complete. Others do not.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Many agile and scrum teams want to be left alone so that they can do their work. The last thing they want is leaders looking over their shoulders and overseeing their to-do lists, even when they struggle to complete their sprint commitments.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I ask this question to agile leaders working with five or more teams: What boundaries and empowerments do you set for your self-organizing teams? . More specifically, are their agile teams free to choose their own tools and technologies? Do you have defined quality,

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 28, 2021

"We're practicing scrum, scaling agile, but not seeing the benefits we were expecting," is a comment I hear all too often. The simple answer is, following scrum ceremonies and focusing on scaling rituals isn't going to achieve agile mindsets, culture, and transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

That’s what’s driven us toward the concept of the Agile Scrum, a philosophy that Broadcom Software decided to adopt for our international sales team. . Agile and Scrum are often thought to be one and the same, but they’re not. Agile is a set of principles while Scrum is a framework for getting work done.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 27, 2021

I attended the 2020 Scrum guide update event that also celebrated its 25th anniversary. And while this new edition intends to provide more focus, be simpler and more inclusive – recognizing that Scrum is widely used outside of the software development world – some choices might just be counterproductive and even scare designers away.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 1, 2020

One of my favorite workshops that I do is called Agile for Stakeholders. Now there are books, frameworks, and tools to help agile product owners, scrum masters, and leads, including StarCIO Agile Planner, but there are limited resources for stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 24, 2022

Agile and Scrum teams work with product owners to define requirements and prioritize backlogs, then have the team/tech leads that guide them from commitment to done every sprint and release.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In my work week, this has meant a change to Agile Scrum as a development methodology. Agile isn't entirely new. Our approach before this had been semi-agile. We used some principles of Agile software development With a change of leadership comes many other changes.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile. Agile also has benefits.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 11, 2024

A couple of years ago, I led an agile transformation program for a major hospital system. They asked me to train their project managers on agile methodologies and apply agile/scrum to several

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We can call many processes "agile," and teams can claim that they are practicing scrum. Still, there are sizable steps going from following basic agile ceremonies to agile methodologies or cultures. Specifically, teams are not agile if all they are doing is. Let's call a spade a spade.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2017

This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 12, 2018

Agile management and scrum-style techniques have long been accepted in fields of technology development, but have been increasingly adopted outside the tech industry over the years. It’s enough to drive any marketer to reassess their workflow, which is undoubtedly why agile techniques are coming into the field.

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Flexagon

DECEMBER 10, 2022

If, like me, you have worked in organizations that have successfully implemented scrum within your product teams, you are familiar with the scaling challenges across teams: managing dependencies, aligning and coordinating work, maintaining consistency and achieving agility at scale. And, how do you deal with cross team dependencies?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 24, 2024

This $40 Project Management Certification Training Bundle will teach you to break down complex tasks, become versed in Agile and Scrum, and more. The post Deal: Open New Doors by Studying Project Management appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 25, 2018

My question for the agile scrum masters, coaches, and team leads today is whether or not you are documenting meeting notes after planning sessions, standups, and other common scrum meetings? You might be tempted to do away with meeting notes as a relic of the past.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Great scrum masters are both leaders and facilitators. Becoming a top scrum master requires balancing both agile theory knowledge and people skills.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 19, 2018

Last week I moderated a panel at nGage's Enterprise Transformation Exchange on Developing an Agile IT Organization: Concepts, Culture and Concerns. Organizations looking to transform need to go beyond scrum practices and improving IT project execution. The message from panelists was clear.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I've been writing about the process of shifting from a "semi'-agile" development model into a more formal scrum process. So for most people who deal with scrum based methodologies, I think my perspective is a little bit unique. I'm a product manager/product owner. I attend the daily stand up just like everyone else.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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Tech Republic

JULY 11, 2024

Discover various approaches, including Agile, Waterfall, Scrum and Lean, and learn how to choose the best methodology for your projects. Explore our complete guide to project management methodologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. A hollowed-out husk of Scrum concealing taskmasters of Waterfall is the Trojan Horse of this betrayal. A sham of true Scrum.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2014

When I saw this hanging in my daughter''s classroom I knew it needed to be shared with Scrum Masters and other agile team members. agile planning agile software development it management organizational change project management software development' A big part of this collaboration occurs in both.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

As my organization transitions farther into the process of adopting agile scrum for our software development, I'm learning more and more about what keeps a Product Owner busy! Yesterday I wrote about grooming the backlog and prioritizing all the stories. But there's a big piece that I missed. Stories tend to multiply. So at any given

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

So we’re moving to an Agile scrum process. This is a dream-come-true for the development team. But it’s a decent sized change that is going to take some getting used to. I’m not complaining. But I am painfully aware of some of the impacts on me as a product manager.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 26, 2018

Agile practices, and scrum in particular are really strong at prescribing steps to go from sprint start to end. Teams practicing scrum will usually have a commitment meeting at the start of the sprint to decide the scope of work they aim to complete and daily standups during the sprint to discuss status and blocks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Agile scrum teams are really designed to be full time commitments for all the parties involved. As we round in to the end of our first sprint, I'm learning a really hard lesson. Part time is out of luck. I wish it was otherwise. But I'm finding myself in the vice of multiple number 1 priorities. It works best when everyone

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 7, 2019

I still find teams that have adopted scrum and other agile practices, but still strive for perfection when trying to conceive architectures and implementation plans. Some will also try to think through every edge case to ensure that designs are fully future-proofed. This is an unrealistic proposition for most teams and people.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 18, 2017

He was relating some meetings he was in where various corporate IT leaders were discussing agile methodologies and how to standardize them across the company. It seems that we have two flavors of what can loosely be called "agile" development going on. The first type was being

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