This category contains topics associated with applying Agile Business Management in organizations. These topics are appropriate for:
Agile business management can be difficult and making Agile work for your business is a real challenge:
Another big challenge is aligning the overall business strategy and the development strategy:
This is a rapidly evolving area that needs to be better understood. Many Agile training programs address Agile from a development perspective only and training programs like CSPO for business people are limited to the “mechanics” of doing Agile.
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What happened to Southwest Airlines has been a popular topic lately. The airline had the biggest meltdown in airline history with thousands of flights canceled and many passengers and hundreds of pieces of luggage stranded at a number of different airports throughout the US. Even now, Southwest is still struggling to recover from this disaster […]
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Is Elon Musk a Good Agile Manager? I recently participated in a discussion on the question of “How would you describe Elon Musk’s leadership and management style?” There has been a lot of interest in this since Elon Musk acquired Twitter and I’ve given a lot of thought to this subject. Elon Musk does not
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I’m very pleased to announce a new Agile training curriculum for business managers including: Agile/Scrum Product Owners Business Managers and Business Sponsors of Agile Projects Business Executives Who Are Interested in Developing a More Agile Approach for their company Business Analysts who need to learn how to operate in an Agile environment Many people are
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What is the relationship of Design Thinking and Agile? “Design Thinking” is becoming a hot buzz word and many companies want to jump on the Design Thinking bandwagon. However, I’m not sure that many people are really sure what it is and how it might relate to their existing development process. What Is Design Thinking?
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I recently participated in an online discussion on the question of “What are the Critical Skills of a Scrum Product Owner?” This is a very good question because the role of a Product Owner is not very well-understood. The actual role that a Product Owner plays can vary significantly in the real-world depending on the
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How do you choose the right Agile approach for your business? Many people will say that you have to convert the entire company and it’s business to an Agile approach in order to make an Agile development process work. That might work for some companies but it isn’t necessarily a good solution for a lot of
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What’s Different About Agile Metrics? Are metrics really consistent with Agile at all? Overview Metrics play a different role in an Agile environment that is important to understand; however, Metrics will be directly related to the level of planning and the project approach and should be well-aligned with the success criteria for the project The
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Understanding “what is systems thinking” is important to developing a deeper understanding of Agile. I’m an engineer at heart. I’ve been trained to analyze problems objectively and come up with well-thought-out solutions. That approach comes naturally to me; however, it is something that needs to be learned and reinforced. Why Is Systems Thinking Important? An
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A lot of people may think that it is inconsistent to impose cost and schedule constraints on an Agile project. It is difficult, but it definitely can be done – one of the areas where that becomes essential is Agile contracts. An Example of Agile Contracts For example, I once managed a large federal government
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How do you go about developing an Agile business strategy to make Agile work for your business? Many Agile coaching and consulting companies take what I would call a “developer-centric” approach to Agile: The effort is heavily focused on team-level capabilities and is primarily oriented around improving the development process There’s nothing wrong with that,
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