Your path to business agility
In a previous blog, “Agile Release Trains are Key to Scaling Output,” I reviewed how Agile release trains (made up of multiple Agile teams) are the key to Agile at scale. Building successful teams is a good first step, but alignment across teams doesn’t just happen—it takes an ongoing commitment from Agile leaders. Agile ceremonies...
It’s no secret that project management has its challenges, one of which is being able to communicate project plans and progress in a simple and easy way that everyone can understand. You want to keep everyone on the same page, to be able to turn complex project data into clear insights. However, a project often...
From time to time we like to share our thoughts about major trends we see in the PM market. While the demand on project managers to deliver on time and on budget is never going to go away, we hope our insight into PM trends will help make your job just a little easier. Agile...
No Project is an Island Every project is a new adventure into potentially unknown territory, where people may not (literally and figuratively) speak the same language, wear the same clothes, or view their business world through the same data lens (literally!). Culturally siloed groups may be the result of regional locations, functional issues, historical norms,...
“If you measure anything, measure wait time” – Dominica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible A major part of Flow Metrics is tracking all the work that goes into planning, building and delivering a product for the business. Just as it’s important to track how much value you’re delivering, how long work is takin, and how much...
One of the most important elements of the Scrum methodology is the “sprint.” This is a pre-defined amount of time, usually between one and four weeks, within which a certain number of tasks connected to a project are set to be completed. The sprint kicks off with a sprint planning session on Day One, where...
Decentralized leadership offers a lot of benefits, such as increased decision velocity, faster reaction times and more targeted actions and projects. Empowering teams to take greater control of their direction and decision making requires greater critical thinking in the workplace. Unfortunately, however, according to a major survey of over 60,000 managers, it is precisely critical...
Turning software delivery data into IT and business intelligence is nothing new; it’s the 21st-century gold rush. Yet getting to this level of maturity is a herculean undertaking, especially for IT organizations looking to obtain accurate cross-tool reporting that provides them with business-critical insights into their software delivery. For many, obtaining the one source of...
The latest version of Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) 5.0 expands the framework beyond business operations to embrace business agility. “Business agility happens when the entire organization – business and tech leaders, compliance, development, finance, legal, marketing, operations, sales, security, support – uses Lean and Agile practices to continually and proactively deliver innovative business solutions faster...
The first metric in our Flow Metrics series is Flow Velocity, a measure of productivity and one of the “money metrics”. It tells you how many items were completed over a given period of time (week or month over month). Tracking your Flow Velocity over time provides historical data for teams to see if their delivery...
