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If you have any experience maintaining an agile team, then you know that being agile is more than just about having stand ups, Kanban board iteratives, and sprint-based deliveries. If your organization isn’t able to ensure that you have all the resources you need to succeed, you’ll quickly find yourself behind schedule at best, and...
“Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy, 1963. Change is hard on everyone. Even the more adaptable among us have a hard time changing the way they do their things. And that goes double for change in the...
In our last post, we shared the differences between traditional portfolio management and the Lean Portfolio Management approach and why they matter for organizations looking to embrace agility at the enterprise level. At some point, efforts to increase agility will be stunted by traditional portfolio management practices, and it’s not enough to simply improve workflow management...
As a product leader, I get the question all the time: “Do you use your own products?” The answer is, “Of course we do.” It’s certainly true, but up until this point, usage was mainly in a department by department basis, with each department using the product slightly different and not necessarily connected. To provide...
Are your efforts to become more Agile stunted by traditional portfolio management practices? Many enterprises find themselves at a crossroads, caught between a volatile, competitive landscape that demands dynamism and practices that maintain stability, often at the expense of agility. In order to consistently deliver customer value (a hallmark of agility), organizations have to evolve...
As we finalize our six-part blog series on how to become agile, let’s take a look back at the previous five blogs and provide you with a brief summary of their key points. Throughout this series, we’ve discussed the five ways to become agile, addressed the primary issues and roadblocks, as well as the critical...
Steve Marjot, recently joined Jon Terry, Chief Evangelist for Lean-Agile Strategy at Planview, for a webinar to discuss the RBS Agile transformation journey from traditional portfolio management to Lean portfolio management over the last several years. He shared successes, learnings, the obstacles overcome throughout the journey (which is still very much a work in progress),...
Another Agile show is in the books. Agile 2019 wrapped last week, and it was nothing short of awesome! The conference was full of great speakers, conversations, and partners as well as great competitors and old friends. Each day brought a new set of Agile practitioners and enthusiasts to our booth, each with their own...
The Agile 2019 conference confirmed that the community energy around Agile, as a better way of working, has not wavered. The positive vibe was palpable throughout the conference, as I overheard and took part in conversations around scaling Agile adoption. Those in attendance were excited, engaged, and enthusiastic to learn about improving and growing the...
This is the third installment in a series of posts about the benefits of scaled Agile. If you haven’t read the first two posts, click through the links below to catch up on anything you missed: Part 1: 3 Key Shifts Necessary for Scaling Agile Part 2: Realizing the Benefits of Agile at Scale In...
