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Using Lean-Agile Principles to Execute Organizational Transformations
As the speed of business increases exponentially, many organizations find themselves in an awkward position: knowing they need to fundamentally…
Elevate with Grit Panel Series (Episode 9: Shooting for the Stars & Keeping an Eye on the Ball)
A Discussion with the NBA Hear from women leaders in the workforce as they share obstacles overcome and lessons learned…
Introducing our Visual Thinking Templates
Freely download, print, reproduce, scale up, adapt and evolve our Visual Thinking Templates to support you when facilitating working sessions.…
A SAFe Vision — A Cprime Lean Agile Transformation with an Optical Imaging Innovator
As newer, low-cost competitors enter the medical optical imaging sector, this leading retinal scanning manufacturer partnered with Cprime to increase…
Agents of Change: Household UK Banking Leader Partners with Cprime to Transform Ways of Working
Under increasing pressure from disruptive, digitally-native cloud financial services, this long-standing UK banking institution partnered with Cprime to increase organizational…
Enabling Transformation: Creating a Global Agile Curriculum for a UK Banking Icon
As new technology and innovative financial products disrupted the traditional banking ecosystem, this major UK Bank turned to Cprime to…
Market-Leading Innovation at a Luxury Automaker by Introducing Agile Product Lifecycle Management
This luxury automaker needed to achieve faster time to market, rapid value delivery, and increased innovation, with employees in the…
The Five Phases of Enterprise Agility
Like a long and winding mountain road, the journey to enterprise agility is neither fast nor straightforward. And if you…
Raconteur: Agile Business Report 2022
Applying agile development methodologies to the wider business is no new strategy, but it may hold the key to a…
How to Align Organizational Culture with Agile Frameworks
Organizational culture can be defined as a set of values, behaviors, and beliefs that contribute to the unique social and…
A Practical Approach to Align and Deliver Adaptive Strategy
In partnership with: Leaders in organizations undertaking digital transformation need to connect emergent business strategy, execution, and financial management to…
Elevate with Grit Panel Series (Episode 6: Agile Paths & Real Transformations)
Hear from leaders in the workforce as they share obstacles overcome and lessons learned from climbing the career ladder to…
The Pace of Change is Upping our Game
How People, Products, and Companies Can Thrive in Times of Change Change can be a friend. Change can be a…
Insuring Agile: A SAFe Transformation at a Global Commercial P&C Solutions Provider
The commercial casualty and property insurance sector is highly dynamic. Influenced by external factors, including strict domestic and international regulation,…
Elevate with Grit Panel Series (Episode 5: Leadership, People & Culture)
Theme: 3 Amazing Expert Panelists in the Food + Retail Industry Explore Leadership with a People and Culture Focus When…
Agile Transformation under Regulation: Reducing Development Cycles in Big Pharma with Cprime
In a highly controlled industry with glacial development cycles, the company sought to align its process and make incremental improvements…
Partnering for Success—Fostering A New Way of Working at a Global Insurance Provider
Headquartered in London and Newark, NJ, with subsidiaries and offices in over 40 countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and…
Can You Keep Up With the Speed of Agile and DevOps?
Rapid disruptive changes are driven by more complex customers with rapidly changing needs. Learn more with this infographic:
Evolving to Agile: Software Company Improves Organizational Efficiency with Cprime
A Time for Change—Identifying Impediments With a client list of over 1 million users, staying ahead of the curve is…
Advanced Scrum Master Practice Guide
Within the world of Agile and Scrum development, the role of the Scrum Master is arguably the most complex and…
Taking Agile to the Bank—Accelerating Software Deployment by 8,900%
Banking is a highly regulated and service-intensive industry. Behind the scenes, every bank depends on continuously developing and improving its…
Global Aerospace Leader Nails Huge Agile Transformation
Case Study Details Industry: Aerospace Highlights the power of Cprime’s Agile and SAFe® training and coaching programs: In highly regulated…
Advanced Kanban Practice Guide
Originally conceived by Toyota Motors in the 1950s, the Kanban method is a powerful set of tools that was designed…
Common Misconceptions of Tool Integrations
In partnership with: If the average developer alone uses an average of 14 different software platforms every single day, how…
Harnessing the Atlassian Ecosystem for Agile Transformation at Utilities Company
Their teams began using Kanban to track projects and generate more and more reports. But while the new system prompted…
Supporting an Urgent Migration to Cloud and Agile Transformation
This financial company wanted to improve the coordination of their work, help employees manage and release code in an organized…
The Data to Pivot: Enterprise Visibility and Integration of Your Mission Critical Tooling
The distributed world of business created by the pandemic changed the way we use and capture data. Increasingly, enterprise visibility…
Achieving Agile 2.0: The Cprime Dojo Experience
In alignment with the company’s mandate for excellence in software development, a group of three executive sponsors sought to improve…
Agile Transformation – Global P&C Insurance Leader
This global P&C insurance leader always believed in continuous innovation, but due to the speed of business change, they found…
Where’s the value? An Introduction to Value Streams
Value Streams are tools that enable the responsiveness to embrace change. Value Stream Identification, Value Stream Mapping, and Value Stream…
The Evolution of an Agile Energy Industry Leader
This energy industry leader was looking for assistance successfully adopting Scaled Agile and Lean Portfolio management practices. They faced challenges…
Scrumban Practitioner’s Guide
Scrum has become the most popular Agile method, currently utilized by millions of practitioners around the world. Given its evolution…
Agile Space
Welcome to mission control for Agile Space - a beginners guide brought to you by Mural and Cprime Get the…
Can you keep up with the speed of Agile + DevOps?
Minimize complexity with a single, complete DevOps platform. Learn how you can make a measurable impact, increase operational efficiencies, deliver…
A History of Scrum & What We’ve Forgotten: Learnings From the Original Scrum Team
When the very first Scrum team formed in 1992, Agile Software Development Coach and Cprime mentor, Jeff McKenna, had already…
Women in Leadership & Technology: Elevate with Grit Panel Series (Episode 2)
Hear from women in the workforce as they share obstacles overcome and lessons learned from climbing the career ladder to…
Agile Transformation Capabilities Guide
Our Agile transformation solutions are designed to ensure the successful implementation and utilization of Agile methodologies. This guide walks you…
Building a Learning and Development Strategy for an Agile Organization
As the business landscape has changed over the past few years, learning and development (L&D) has grown into a massive…
Achieving Alignment and Agility: Best Practices for Aligning Technical and Non-Technical Teams in Jira & Wrike
Every team wants to contribute to their organization’s value stream. But not every team wants to or can do so…
MTM Inc: So Much More Than Just a Lift
By creating an ecosystem of collaborative partnerships fueled by innovation, MTM removes barriers and brings a whole-person approach to healthcare.…
Women in Leadership & Technology: Elevate with Grit Panel Series (Episode 1)
Hear from women in the workforce as they share obstacles overcome and lessons learned from climbing the career ladder to…
Cprime Learning Course Catalog
With 30 years of experience in the professional development industry, Cprime Learning provides the training, certifications, and expertise to help…
The Horizontal Thinkers Roundtable: Chief Strategy Officer Edition
This webinar, hosted by Gtmhub, gathered horizontally-minded strategists together to discuss challenges around alignment, cross-functional collaboration, and effective strategy-execution. Enterprise…
Cutting an Agile Groove Video Series
This is a free series of instructional videos for newbies and practitioners. The series covers topics like coaching, agile product…
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Learnings from Ken France’s Personal Agility Journey
In celebration of the 20th year of the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Ken France, Agility Practice Leader and SAFe…
Understanding Agile Culture Globally
In this panel discussion, we aim to understand more about the mindset of different cultures around the world adopting agile,…
A Complete Guide to Managing Agile Teams in a Remote World
As the global economy continues to evolve into a complex and tightly integrated system, the popularity of a remote workforce…
Building Adaptable Teams the Marine Corps Way
In this video, Anne Steiner shares characteristics of the United States Marine Corps that can be applied to professional teams…
How to Get Real-Time and Actionable Visibility Into Your Value Streams
Tasktop Viz™ implements the Flow Framework® to enable organizations to measure business value and results, instead of projects and costs.…
Agile Transformation for Fortune 500 Transportation Company
After being a strictly Waterfall organization for decades, a Fortune 500 Transportation organization decided it was time to implement Agile.…
Onboarding Case Study for Fortune 200 Human Resource Software Company
This Fortune 200 human resource software company wanted to partner with a training vendor to develop and deliver a custom…
Where do User Stories Come From?
Where do user stories come from? Cprime’s Anne Steiner, Vice President of Product Agility, briefly talks about how to break…
Top 5 Facilitation Mistakes Scrum Masters Make and How to Avoid Them
If you hold a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) designation, you know how demanding the Scrum Master role can be. New Scrum…
Tired of Talking About Agile? Being Agile is Easier Done than Said!
Question: How often do you use or hear the words Agile or Scrum on a daily basis? Before “Agile” and…
ICAgile’s Learning Roadmaps: Finding the Right Journey for You
ICAgile, a leading global agile certification and accreditation body, believes relentless learning is pivotal to unlocking the power of agility.…
How do I know which scrum certification is right for me?
You’ve been asked to learn more about Scrum for your current job or to land a new job. Great! Now…
Value Stream Mapping – What and Why?
Your organization’s success depends on your ability to deliver value to your customers. This is true whether your organization is…
Kanban Quick Start Guide
New Agile teams with limited experience usually encounter many of the same challenges during initial stages of formation. One of…
Defining Digital Transformation in 5 Minutes
A digital transformation means different things to different people, but it does not need to be complicated. It boils down…
Agile Retrospective Quick Start Guide
Within the context of Agile development, the Sprint Retrospective is a powerful technique that was designed to enable teams to…
Scrum Master Practitioner’s Guide
The role of the “Scrum Master” is one of the most sought-after job roles in recent years due to the…
Selling Agile Transformation to Upper Management
Although most organizations know that the ability to release a new product or new feature is imperative to their success,…
What is the ICP-ATF?
In the workplace, we are running meetings every day. So how do you go from running meetings to facilitating them?…
How Not to Agile
What does it mean to be practicing Agile? Does it mean having daily standup, running a two-week sprint and using…
Gated Check In TFS
Learn how to configure a Gated Check In TFS to restrict developers from checking in bad code that does not build…
Agile Market Entry, A Successful Launch For Your New Products
Agile development has made great strides delivering new market-ready products that customers want and need. But just as new technologies…
Adopting Agile in Marketing to Increase ROI
Cprime's marketing team was facing probelms of transparency into the rest of the company. This created accountability issues, a disorganized…
Agile DevOps Transformation at Alegeus
When this leading benefits administration management organization recognized the need for an Agile/DevOps transformation at scale, they committed fully to…
Pave Your Path to Successful Organizational Outcomes: A Conversation with Leading Enterprise Agility Experts
Alex Yakyma, long-time thought leader in organizational change, is joined by SAFe Fellow Ken France and Regional Delivery Director Marc…
Agile Transformation on Tight Timeline: Agile + Jira + Jira Align
Change is always challenging, especially for large companies well-established in their markets. But change is a necessary obstacle for any…
Harnessing the Atlassian Ecosystem for Agile Transformation at NextEra Energy
As organizations become more Agile they benefit from increased engagement, transparency, visualization of work and predictable delivery. But that’s not…
Wrike & Cprime – Agile 101: Demystifying Agile for Marketing and Non-Tech Teams
Businesses today are faced with dynamic and fluid markets where they need to be nimble, react quickly, and deliver faster…
Remote Working in a SAFe Environment: Collaborative Online Meetings and Fully Distributed PI Planning
While both the Agile Manifesto and SAFe highlight the benefits of face-to-face communication, it has often been the case that…
3 Ways to Leverage an Agile Mindset for Success
Finding Opportunity in Disruption Agile, by definition, is the ability to move quickly and easily, even in times of major…
5 Behaviors to Optimize Remote Collaboration
Are your teams suddenly adjusting to working 100% remote? After 10+ years of experience delivering consulting services to clients, here…
Virtual PI Planning in 4 Days
Have you suddenly found yourself in a 100% remote organization? Not to fear, Cprime has forged a fool-proof virtual strategy…
Think Agility – Empowering Your Remote Workforce: A Cprime Panel
Join Stedman Ng (SVP of Cloud Enablement), Ken France (VP of Scaled Agility), Anne Steiner (VP of Product Agility), Brandon…
Real Life Agile Product Delivery Using Design Thinking in SAFe 5.0
In this webinar Dean Leffingwell, SAFe creator and Chief Methodologist, and Anne Steiner, Cprime's VP of Product Agility, take a…
Dojo or Bust? The Next Wave of Immersive Learning
Dojos are the darling of technical learning and organizational transformation these days, but are they all they’re cracked up to…
The Secrets to Real World Business Agility
The current definition of Business Agility is as nebulous as DevOps was only a few years ago. Some schools of…
Product Agility and Jira Align
Do you find yourself inundated with product requests coming from all over the place? Are they coming in through email,…
Align to Strategy with Portfolio Management & Jira Align
As your strategic planning group edges closer to the end of the traditional 2020 planning period, Portfolio Managers' work begins…
Project to Product: Unlocking Product Agility
Adherence to time, budget, and scope has been the gold standard measure of project success since the beginning of time.…
Test-Driven Development at National MI
The turbulent environment in the mortgage industry continues to challenge mortgage lenders and servicers alike. Complex, inflexible and costly-to-maintain legacy…
Scaling Agile in Regulated Environments: Addressing the Challenges of Compliance with Applied SAFe
Engineering tomorrow’s products means keeping ahead and staying relevant in a constantly and rapidly changing environment. A core characteristic…
Automated Jira & Confluence Health Checks: Boost Operational Efficiency, Productivity and Scale
Looking for those leadings indicators that highlight risk? Looking for quantitative ways to drive better application and process enablement? As…
Solutions for Agile Governance in the Enterprise (Sage)
Agile Project, Program, and Portfolio Management for Development of Hardware and Software Products Solutions for Agile Governance in the Enterprise…
Automated Process and System Health Checks for your Atlassian Enterprise Platform
As you plan to scale your agile development initiatives by implementing new projects, adding new practitioners and end users and…
Agile in the Enterprise Online Course
Increase productivity, improve predictability of software projects Course Summary Interest in the Scrum and Agile process framework is exploding as…
Agile for Managers Online
When software development teams move to Agile methods, their managers often wonder what their new roles and responsibilities will be…
Portfolio Management Online Training
Agile Portfolio Management presents simple and practical techniques for the effective management of Portfolios of business initiatives. These techniques are…
The Gaps in your Agile Methodology No One Talks About
For the last 20+ years we’ve all been diligently working to agile our way to product success. Indeed, developing iteratively…
Lean Leadership at the Portfolio Level
“It is not enough that management commit themselves to quality and productivity, they must know what it is they must…
Applying Organizational Change and Leadership to Agile Transformations
It is no secret that when an organization chooses to transition to Agile methodologies, it requires an enormous commitment to…
Taking Enterprise Agile to the next level with SAFe 4.0
In this webinar, Director and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile, Inc, Dean Leffingwell walks us through the new elements in…
Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing
Join experienced Agile coaches Bob Galen and Mary Thorn as they share the Three Pillars framework for establishing a balanced…
Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders
In this webinar we’ll explore the patterns of mature agile managers and leaders. Those that understand Servant Leadership and how…
10 SAFe Essential Elements to Achieve the Benefits of SAFe
In this webinar we explore what could happen as the Agile Release Train progresses with each later Program Increment. You…
Agile Resource Plan Like a Pro
Resource Planning is one of the biggest headaches for medium to large organizations. Agile Resource Planning provides a very different…
Culture for Great Teams
Your team can be ten times better. What does that mean? That means your professional team can accomplish 10x more…
Agile Data Architecture
It is quite possible to use Agile techniques for creating and maintaining a data architecture. Doing so will dramatically reduce…
Introduction to Agile for Hardware
Typically, changes in hardware development come at a higher cost; luckily the benefits of Agile are not only achieved through…
Working with Remotely Distributed Teams
This webinar will provide guidance for proper planning and managing, in order to get your distributed teams working smoothly and…
The Ugly Truth About Scaling
This webinar, presented by Cprime and Agile Craft will highlight some of the "real" struggles faced when it comes to…
Organizational Silos are Slowly Crippling Your Team’s Productivity
In this webinar, we will discuss obstacles that make collaboration challenging in traditional organizational departments of old-world product development. We…
5 leading Challenges facing PMOs
In this webinar, Cprime Agile Coach, Brian Mulconrey, and Tasktop Business Analyst, Rebecca Dobbin, will present why leading program and…
Relieving the Testing Bottleneck
When shifting to Agile, testing is often a bottleneck in the process, as it is the last step in the…
AI & Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to Digitally Transform Your Environment
In this webinar, we’ll help you quickly understand how to think about emerging technologies for your Business. We’ll give you…
An Outcome Measurement Model: Is Your Agile Adoption Moving the Needle?
The Version One Annual State of Agile survey indicates that 94% of organizations are practicing Agile in one way, shape,…
Lean Agile Requirements in Large Scale Complex Systems Webinar
Building large-scale software and cyber-physical systems (CPS) are one of the most complex and challenging endeavors in the industry today.…
Agile Starter Pack
The Agile Starter Pack is a perfect reference guide for Agile newcomers. In one simple download, you get all of…
Optimize Portfolio Performance with Agile Techniques & Jira – Part 2
Some organizations spend months or even years attempting to create a workable portfolio management solution – often with little success.…
ScrumMaster: Servant Leader or Secretary?
At the end of 2017 the Scrum Alliance announced the launch of the Advanced Certified ScrumMasterTM (A-CSMTM) program. Are you…
Plantronics Applies Agile for R&D Teams: Agile for Hardware Case Study
With the shifting deadlines, changing priorities, and engineering unknowns that are common to any R&D department, a standardized but flexible…
Optimize Portfolio Performance with Agile Techniques & Jira
Some organizations spend months or even years attempting to create a workable portfolio management solution – often with little success.…
Test Driven Product: Applying Test Driven Thinking to the Product World
XP gave us test driven as a design tool. People who did not understand that the tests drove the design,…
Aligning Portfolio Management Reporting and Tracking
It is common for organizations that are in the midst of an agile transformation to struggle with trying to reconcile…
Contested Development: Finding Pragmatism in Agile & DevOps
Our task is to deconstruct the what and why of Agile and DevOps. We’ll tackle Agile and DevOps in nine…
Agile Vox: Scrum for Hardware?
This article was released in the Scrum Alliance's very first edition of Agile Vox Magazine, and is based on Cprime's…
An Introduction to Software Services Lifecycle Management (SSLM)
HOW SSLM CAN HELP YOUR TEAM REACH PEAK EFFICIENCY More and more, software is at the root of many businesses…
11 Lessons Learned from Agile Hardware Development
Abstract A previous paper by the author, Agile Processes for Hardware Development, argued that a Scrum process should be effective…
Agile Processes for Hardware Development
Hardware and software development are quite different, in terms of the concrete developmental activities. Thus it might seem that…
Harvard Business Review: Agile Practices
By: Harvard Business Review Agile development practices have steadily risen to become a trusted and preferred method of development for…
UX in an Agile World
In a traditional waterfall work flow, User Experience (UX) specialists have plenty of time up front to research and incorporate…
A Real Release Planning Experience
Medium to large-size organizations that develop software products with a Scrum process typically have multiple Scrum Teams that must collaborate.…
Your Team may be Agile, but is it Performing?
The Formation Of Effective Teams Is More By Good Fortune Than Good Judgement…..It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way! Learn…
Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders
Currently so much of agile adoption—coaching, advice, techniques, training and even the empathy revolve around the agile teams. Leaders are…
Interview with Financial Services Company About Their Agile Transformation
With the pressure of financial application complexities, this company realizes faster releases and predictability are needed in order to keep…
Tech Firm Adopts Agile for a Better Customer Support Portal
One of the main issues that the CSP team wanted addressed with their move to Agile was delivering to their…
Solutions for Agile Governance in the Enterprise
Author: Kevin Thompson, Ph.D., PMP, ACP, CSP Agile Practice Lead Cprime Paper Abstract: The term governance refers to a formalized…
Agile Quality Engineering
Presentation Synopsis: Discover the fundamentals of Agile Quality Engineering. This webinar will explore the intersection of Agile Mindset, various Agile…
Test-Driven Development Basics
Online Training Overview practice, the pros and cons, and a samples of Test-Driven Development in action. Duration: 1 Hours Credits:…
Being Agile Without Using Agile: CBPM – Online Training
Agile is popular for a reason – its benefits are seen by all stakeholders. However, making the transition to Agile is…
Overcoming Impediments to Agile Transformation: Online Training
Scaling, Cultural Change & Planning Having trouble scaling your agile projects? Having problems integrating agile into your corporate culture? Is…
When Scrum Isn’t Agile Enough
Article from Cprime's Agile Coach, Jeff Howey, on matters of Scrum and Agile I’ve rarely run into scenarios where a…
Validating Monitoring Performance Metrics in Agile
Evaluate agile performance metrics & understand the benefits Many firms that have been doing agile can not determine how or…
Agile Transformation: Wiredrive Takes the Plunge from Waterfall to Scrum
In 2008, Wiredrive faced two major problems that had been years in the making. The first was that it had…
Scrum in the Enterprise: Common Issues
Free Scrum White Paper. Add to Cart & Download Today! "Scrum in the Enterprise" is a white paper written by…
Rapid Estimation/Planning Poker
Rapid Estimation for Agile and Conventional Projects The ability to estimate time and effort is critical for any project. The…
Scrum Guide
Scrum has been used to develop complex products since the early 1990s. This paper describes how to use Scrum to…
How Agile should your Project be? A Mathematician Derives the Answer
Abstract Advocates of agile development claim that agile software projects succeed more often than classic plan-driven projects. Unfortunately, attempts to…
Managing Distributed Teams
Earn 1 PDU Transitioning to Scrum is not easy, and for many, distributed teams are the most difficult to manage.…
Scrum FAQ
The everything you need to know guide! Scrum differs from traditional "waterfall" approaches to project management in many ways, but…
Continuous Integration and Release Maturity Model
Curious about Continuous Integration? Earn 1 PDU! Continuous Integration (CI), which is a big part of continuous delivery, is the…
Agile Encyclopedia
The intention of compiling this Encyclopedia of Agile was to create a document that can be used both as an…
Agile Scrum Terms and Glossary
Download our Scrum & Agile Glossary for over 60 terms and definitions to help you grasp concepts of the Agile…
Agile Team Scrum Velocity Template
Improve Your Agile Team's Sprint Estimation and Organization. The amount of work an Agile Team can perform in a Sprint…
Burndown Chart Template
Scrum Tools At the start of a Sprint, the team breaks down each item in the Sprint backlog into a…
Cumulative Flow Diagram (Burnup Chart)
Scrum Tools Much as a Burndown Chart shows work remaining, a Burnup Chart or Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) shows work…
The Price of Uncertainty
The Price of Uncertainty: All estimates are subject to uncertainty, and project schedules are no exception. A schedule consists of…