The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. Software outsourcing services company states that there are two major development methodologies regarding waterfall and agile. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

TL; DR: Lipstick Agile?—?Happiness Have you noticed how many people in the agile field are unhappy with their work situation? A situation where an organization already struggles doing agile, not to mention ‘becoming agile?’ This is what I call lipstick Agile. Lipstick Agile?—?The Happiness in the Trenches?

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In that respect, the current issues many distributed teams face may also act as accelerants to become more agile.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. What are we fighting for?—?is

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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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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

According to the 2020 State of Agile Report , 95% of organizations say they’ve adopted Agile development methodologies within their team. So why do 84% of those respondents feel like they’re not doing Agile the right way? The answer is simple—there’s no right way to do Agile.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Faking agile metrics can become significantly more subtle.

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Modus Create

JULY 18, 2022

Most companies are somewhere on the journey to becoming a next-generation, customer-centric, fully agile businesses. I have compiled a list of questions to help you assess where your organization sits on the agility spectrum. Putting the customer first” is the essential thread woven throughout an agile organization.

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Modus Create

JUNE 9, 2022

It’s been 30 years since the creation of the agile manifesto. And yet, agile remains misunderstood by the vast majority. . That’s what happened with lean and what’s happening with agile. . Agile Has Gone Mainstream. Even the federal government follows agile methodologies for 80% of its IT projects.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The true cost of an agile transformation can be hard to measure, boiling down to a combination of process, people, and tools. You spend countless hours training teams and adopting new processes – and that’s all before you even consider bringing in a tool to provide reporting and visibility across the entire organization.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

TL;DR: Creating an Agile Community of Practice Creating an agile community of practice helps winning hearts and minds within the organization as it provides authenticity to the agile transition?—?signaling Join the 25th Hands-on Agile meetup on August 20, 2020, to explore the virtual Ecocycle Planning.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the first couple sentences of “Agile Integration: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,” a recently released report by Red Hat, the authors write: “Business success is increasingly based on your ability to react to change. This is not to be confused with the traditional “agile software development,” according to the authors.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The Agile Metrics?—?Who The Agile Metrics Survey 2020 Design: Usually, we start an initiative or project by defining what success would look like and how we would learn that we are successful. This approach is not different for any attempt to become agile, to turn into a learning organization? Agile Metrics Survey 2020 Design?—?Related

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." 2019: "Product reports to the CPO." We still haven't quite gotten down "outcomes over outputs" yet, but it's moving in a better direction. -- 2013: "What is this Agile thing? How do we write hypotheses well?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. This is extremely short-sighted.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2018

What problems arise in agile teams and how to measure them? Product Agility As our product scales, team size grows and we adopt more processes and infrastructures, the complexities to which they adhere to become immense. improve estimation of stories and tasks Standardize Reporting ?—?to More on this story later….Stay

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Your organization has made the commitment to experiment with Agile or to go whole hog and do a “rip-the-band-aid-off” transformation. During this transition to Agile, you may be wondering, “What are we really in for?” . It is important that you learn the principles, values, and practices of an Agile way of working. Happy days.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 21, 2018

In this talk from this year’s MTP Engage in Hamburg, I share some advice on how product people can use lateral leadership in managing agile teams. One of the earliest attempts to define a leadership style for self-organized agile environments resulted in the servant leadership approach. Why Servant Leadership is not Enough.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

Every product and company is one and only you shouldn’t go with the Agile because of its popularity. Choose communication channels, reporting plans, etc. Maintenance Phase Bug Tracking and Fixes Continuously monitor and track reported bugs and issues. Scrum Methodology in Focus In-depth look at the Scrum framework within Agile.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 27, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 7): Sprint Review with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Sprint Review with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools; we explored virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. The Product Backlog may also be adjusted overall to meet new opportunities.”

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280 Group

AUGUST 26, 2022

Waterfall vs. Agile — The race to deep space! . While SpaceX has its Starship model, its founder Elon Musk reports, “ a successful orbit flight is probably between 1 to 12 months from now.” . Agile Product Development Leads to Advanced Innovation . BECOME AGILE. NASA is not delivering on that front. .

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Separate What You Report from Your Practices. Many organizations think they are supposed to manage with the same cost accounting ideas that they report to the outside world. I didn't tell you why.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

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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. Status reports. Agile training. Move to Agile Test. Meet Daily.

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 4, 2020

My previous post focused on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “The Agile C-Suite” 1. . The title sets up the obvious–Agile isn’t new, but having C-suite level executives embrace it is. This myopic view of Agile has been an impediment to organizational and business adoption. . Denning’s Laws of Agile.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cranking user stories through the agile factory. After more than two dozen conversations with product management VPs and SVPs, I’m happy to report the market-facing, customer-value-driven product management I’ve long known is alive and well. Agile development is simply a methodology for building software. Never gonna be!

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Back at Agile 2018, I had a chance to record a podcast with Bob Payne. The recording is Johanna Rothman – Agile 2018. We discussed my experience report with Mark Kilby, the geographically distributed agile teams book with Mark , and my roadmapping session. I’ve known Bob forever.

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Revulytics

JULY 19, 2017

As part of a list of summer reading recommendations for marketers recently published by Forbes, Juniper Networks CMO Mike Marcellin named “Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster and More Innovative” as his pick. Let’s take a look at how software usage analytics can help advance these agile goals.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To put it differently, the head of product is the boss of the people on the product management team, and the team members report to the head. The individual’s power consequently originates from their position. The leadership they exercise has been assigned or granted by the CEO or another executive. See Peter G. See Peter G.

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In a recent discussion with a business leader, I asked a simple question: “Why are you considering an Agile transformation?” . “We Any type of transformation—Agile, digital, or otherwise—is serious in terms of cost, effort, and time. Plus, not all Agile transformations are successful Agile transformations.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Did you know Amazon doesn’t even use standard Agile practices and vocabulary? Yet, they are arguably the most agile and successful organizations in the world. . It’s not about doing Agile. It’s about gaining capabilities that drive results from Agile like happy customers, market responsiveness, engaged employees, etc. .

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Centercode

JULY 9, 2019

To keep products evolving at the speed of their customers’ lives, software teams have adopted agile development practices. The rapid iteration made possible by agile practices and continuous delivery allows teams to fine-tune the user experience, little by little, on a consistent basis. Bring Your Customers into Agile Development.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the previous articles of this series, I covered the first and second antidotes to Zombie Agility, the regular and generous application of compelling Business Outcomes and ensuring your change agents aren’t already infected. Antidote #3: Build healthy teams with strong capabilities to easily repel future Zombie Agility attacks.

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