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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. Especially, Agile is Not a Silver Bullet.

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Why designers fail to integrate into Agile teams

UX Planet

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio. Desperate to find an alternative to our ineffective process, I stumbled upon Agile and it blew my mind. But in my new Agile team, I was designing fragments that felt incomplete.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer?

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How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile

The Secret PM Handbook

People have asked me “How can I get my execs to support an agile transformation? Reframe the Agile conversation around value. Don’t talk about scrum or methodologies or the Agile Manifesto. And as you implement these solutions, you end up doing agile or something that looks very much like it. From Value-focused to Agile.

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How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile

The Secret PM Handbook

People have asked me “How can I get my execs to support an agile transformation? Reframe the Agile conversation around value. Don’t talk about scrum or methodologies or the Agile Manifesto. And as you implement these solutions, you end up doing agile or something that looks very much like it. From Value-focused to Agile.

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Commentary on 14th Annual State of Agile Report ? Part 1.

Agile Velocity

The eagerly anticipated 14th Annual State of Agile Report was published earlier this week, and like previous publications, there are some fantastic insights. Benefits of Agile. The top benefits of adopting Agile in this report are fairly consistent with recent years. Digging Deeper into Some Stats.

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The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup. Think Agile and SAFe, Since 2001 there have been seven different attempts to redefine the MVP. Steve Blank expanded on it in 2005 with the Customer Development Methodology. Since 2001 there have been several attempts to improve on the core MVP concept.

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