Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The leaders and change agents we meet are eager to ensure their Agile transformation avoids hitting rocks or running aground. We aim to address those obstacles in this article by offering three Agile transformation OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for you to consider. The First Agile transformation OKR – “Leader Engagement”.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Our recent report 2022 State of Digital Transformation revealed that 57% of enterprises had adopted an agile framework for implementing digital initiatives. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects. . What is Agile Leadership? 5 Principles of Agile Leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2019

Establishing agile and product culture is critical to us becoming a modern organisation that continuously improves. Supporting their development, helping them to think and act as agile and product champions. I also defined a vision: Agile product management culture is the norm and is adding measurable value to Parkinson’s UK.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Agile Transformation involves all levels of the organization and applies Lean-Agile principles to business processes, practices, tools, operations, and culture.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges. All fit our definition of hybrid.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. See Leadership Tip# 10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team.). Monthly or bi-monthly to get the most business agility, assuming your teams can deliver at least once a week. We use a variety of feedback loops. (In

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

A person who lacks experience leading agile development or working in fast-paced, iterative environments. Someone who thrives in cross-functional environments and can influence senior leadership through data-driven insights. Experience in influencing senior leadership through data-driven insights.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. See Leadership Tip #9: See and Stop MicroManagement—Learn to Trust Instead.). I'm fond of multiple short feedback loops so people can change their minds in the face of new data. When people decide for others, they micromanage.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. As you learn from the tests and the business evolves, you should strive to be agile and reconsider your priorities continuously. The right data and experimentation tools.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 27, 2023

Introduction In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, organizations are increasingly turning to agile methodologies to enhance their software development and project management processes. Agile methodologies offer a flexible and iterative approach that emphasizes collaboration, adaptability, and customer-centricity.

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BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

This is where strong leadership and the right tools can make all the difference. Provide Leadership in the Development of Roadmaps A roadmap is a critical tool for alignment. In a world where speed, agility, and user focus matter more than ever, cross-functional collaboration isn’t optional. Make this work visible too.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You might create an image of the feedback loops, as in Unearthing Your Project's Delays. You now realize that if you want an agile culture, you want the team to collaborate. Agile thinking and culture shows us that no, we don't. Visualize the Team's System. Managers can support their teams in many ways.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The global pandemic has taught us that businesses who remain agile and open to digital transformation will be successful, but that that doesn’t guarantee changes in how a company operates. Most companies fail because they revert back to this leadership style. Digital transformation and Agile methodologies are one and the same.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 8, 2018

Why Organizational Agility is Necessary. Organizational agility allows you to respond quickly to this unpredictable world. What is Organizational Agility? Benefits of Organizational Agility. 7 Steps to Implement Organizational Agility & Excel in a VUCA World. Leadership Maturity. Focus and clarity.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 22, 2020

Even if you use an agile approach, you still can't create an impossible project. Or, you need to experiment some more with smaller feedback loops to understand what to deliver. These folks had a software-only product, so their agile approach helped them finish work. The teams chose to: Use an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

We needed to determine what prevented senior leadership (and everyone else) from collaborating. How satisfied are we with our people, product, and cultural leadership? .” Tim was worried about the cultural changes we needed to discuss for the client's ability to be more effective. Then, as a team, we needed to fix those problems.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 6, 2018

Agile Roles are well defined in any foundational training for Scrum or Kanban. At Keep Austin Agile 2018, I presented a talk called “So You Made Your Project Managers into ScrumMasters: Roles Transitions When Becoming Agile”. Learn Agile. Servant leadership/Facilitation/Coaching. Manage expectations to leadership.

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CardBoard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

scrum #scrumathome #scrummaster #agile #kanban ♬ Vlog BGM_03(953483) – Fujiwo Agile is a mindset. Both Scrum and Kanban are part of the Agile family, but they’re like siblings with different personalities. Scrum is a specific way to do Agile. They provide opportunities for feedback and adjustment.

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ProductPlan

MAY 31, 2023

Product centricity introduces agility into how businesses plan, staff, budget, prioritize, and execute. The organization should match this philosophy, with strong product management and leadership guiding the way. Market intelligence, feedback loops, and strategic goals can point us in a general direction.

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Agile Velocity

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your organization is planning an Agile transformation, you may be asking, or be expected to answer, the question of whether to take a centralized or decentralized approach. In sharing this topic with my Agile Velocity colleagues, who all have experience in this area, a more nuanced conversation emerged. . Where to begin .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? I wrote a lot about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.). People Solve Problems.

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Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

This changed when Agile software development came around. Enable faster iterations based on user feedback When releasing features in small increments, the feedback loops are tighter, and the velocity increases. The development cycle, in some cases, lasted years (think Windows XP, Vista, etc.).

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Product Warrior

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The second is agile solutionising to achieve an outcome. They are agile and test ideas quickly as they find the best solutions to achieve their desired outcomes. The team is given a level of freedom and responsibility by leadership to achieve their goal. Mastering all five needs the right governance and support from leadership.

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

“At The Product Event 2019 we work to engage product managers through leadership, motivating thought and inspiring positive change.” Leading the Product offers product managers a great opportunity for personal development, following innovative thought leadership, and networking with the product management community.

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Modus Create

APRIL 10, 2019

To successfully undergo an organization’s digital transformation, companies must evolve their approach to product development leadership, elevate their design maturity, and explore their culture and structure to better understand where to prioritize what must change first. Are You and Your Organization Ready for Design Transformation?

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

Product leadership style. It’s important for the product manager to create an effective feedback loop for incoming ideas from the organization. This feedback loop needs to be integrated into the product planning and development processes. Type of product (B2B, B2C). Evaluating ideas.

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Usersnap

MAY 26, 2020

Collecting customer feedback is the magic that turned our company into a more customer-centric organization. We agilely implemented the feedback for our product and improved the customer journey. We wanted to understand better how our customers used the user feedback to influence their product development lifecycle.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

“I’ve had the best success with this by looking at product roadmaps and talking with product leadership to align on what areas they feel may be a blindspot. ” Takeaways: Talk with product leadership to align on blind spots early in the roadmap. You won’t be involved if you don’t ask to be involved. Samantha Alaimo , Sr.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But I’ve always been fascinated with Spotify’s famous squad, tribe, Survivor-esque sounding setup—especially as agile becomes status quo for product orgs, and more companies shift to this specific engineering culture. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups. Author: Henrik Kniberg. a leader within your market).

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