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Agile Management Tips
Agile Management Tips
Learn more about agile management tips that apply to various agile roles across an organization, from Scrum Master to Program Manager, and more.
How to Create an Agile Project Management Office – 5 Essential Tips
When you hear the term “PMO” (commonly known as “Project Management Office”), what’s the first thing that comes to mind? How would you describe it in a single word? For me, I usually think of...
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Why 2020 Has Us Doubling Down on Sustainability as Resiliency
With the economic shock of COVID, companies of all sizes are reevaluating their resiliency and preparedness to face a similar crisis. A new player is entering the scene on securing resiliency: sustainability. COVID has changed,...
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3 Ways Disciplined Agile Will Change Your Team Forever!
Recently, I have been studying Disciplined Agile (DA) quite a bit. Despite having implemented DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) over 10 years ago, I was intrigued by how this approach has evolved over this period of...
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Four Keys to Organizational Transparency – Brought to You by Agile
Building trust takes time, restructuring around customer value takes more time, and changing culture, takes even more time. The success of each of these ongoing endeavors depends largely on transparency within an organization. When is...
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WOD: 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. So, how do organizations determine if their software portfolio is working? Can your portfolio answer...
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A Woman’s Place is in the Scrum Team (Not the Kitchen!)
By: Liza Ridgway, Director of Agile Services It’s 2018 and women are still the “biggest source of untapped talent,” said one of the speakers at the WITI Summit last summer. Research continues to show...
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People Metrics: How Annual Performance Reviews Enable Bad Behaviors
End of the year. Beginning the next. Holidays. New Year resolutions. Spending time with your in-laws. The holiday season can be hectic and the last thing people are looking forward to are those pesky Annual...
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The Agile Enterprise: The Role of Leadership & Organization Health in Scaling Agile
The Agile Enterprise is nimble and robust. Responsive to an ever-changing, high-speed marketplace, it anticipates customer needs and wants. Its capacity for innovation delights customers and employees alike. Implementing agile for software development is vital...
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5 Scrum Values and Beyond
Last year early in July, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland, the co-creators of Scrum formally added the 5 Scrum Values to the Scrum Guide. The 5 Scrum Values are as follows. I won\'t go until...
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Distributed teams can now build faster with Bitbucket
This post is brought to you by our partner, Atlassian and features insights from our CEO, Zubin Irani. Strong innovators have always aspired to be faster. Fast development cycles lead to more innovation and lower...
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The Four Fundamentals of Solution Innovation
By: Dr.Scott S. Elliot, TechZecs, LLC. Many people talk about product innovation, but few develop a full understanding of what innovation really means or what it takes to build an innovation culture and new solution...
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Are you Misusing Metrics in Agile and Scrum?
By: Angela Johnson, CST The Agile Manifesto is over 10 years old. For over a decade, Scrum and Agile trainers the world over have encouraged “uncovering better ways of developing software”. Yet one of the...
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