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Only the Agile Survive in Today’s Ever-Changing Business Environment

Today's business environments are changing more rapidly than ever before, with major shifts impacting all departments. Ongoing success requires the agility to quickly capitalize on opportunities, using technology to evolve and stay ahead of the game in employee retention, customer satisfaction, governance and compliance. Indeed, your ability to act swiftly can truly make or break your company.

Asim Rahal
on Oct 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Untapped Agility

The book Untapped Agility by Jesse Fewell explains what holds organizations back in increasing their agility. It describes barriers that may appear during an agile transformation and provides “rebound” moves for unblocking the transformation and moving forward. This recurring pattern of Boost, then Barrier, then Rebound both encourages and enables frustrated agile champions.

Ben Linders Jesse Fewell
on Sep 10, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Improv Mindset

The book The Improv Mindset by Bruce and Gail Montgomery provides the framework, activities, case stories, and data to help you apply improv in a business context. They show how you can deal with uncertainty by changing how your brain responds to change, as well as provide methods to systematically improve individual, team, and organization performance by leveraging the core principles of improv.

Ben Linders Bruce Montgomery Gail Montgomery
on Aug 11, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Conversations

The book Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick explores how productive conversations can change the way organizations develop software. It provides techniques and exercises that can help you gain insight into communication and collaboration issues and improve your day-to-day conversations, achieving valuable business results from your agile team.

Ben Linders Douglas Squirrel Jeffrey Fredrick
on Jul 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

How Outsourcing Practices Are Changing in 2020: an Industry Insight

The IT outsourcing industry is very volatile and each year we see new trends reshaping the sector. In 2020, we see some outsourcing practices coming up and others getting stronger. At the same time, we also see some of the prominent outsourcing practices becoming obsolete. This article looks at how the outsourcing industry is changing and getting prepared to embrace the change.

Swati Sharma
on Jul 02, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Leading Lean

Leading Lean by Jean Dahl describes a journey that leaders can embark on to respond to disruptive change. It leads them through the six dimensions of leading self, others, the customer, and the enterprise, by creating an innovative culture that delivers value. It provides not just the theory behind Modern Lean, but also practical methods, tools, strategies, and case studies.

Ben Linders Jean Dahl
on Jun 23, 2020
Culture & Methods

Building a Scale-Ready MVP

In these times of turmoil, information technology is a strategic asset to weather the difficult times ahead. Companies launch projects to build digital products and seize new opportunities, but even with strong pressure to release as fast as possible, beware of the pitfalls of an unsustainable MVP. Building an MVP that is scale-ready takes careful consideration and disciplined practices.

Régis Medina Michael Ballé Fabrice Bernhard Benoît Charles-Lavauzelle
on Jun 19, 2020
Culture & Methods

Working Together in the Same Direction with Obeya

Obeya1 is a proven approach that facilitates teamwork and the alignment of activities around seven panels to deliver IT or manufacturing products. It accelerates the regular resolution of good problems by breaking down barriers between teams and it also benefits from the support of the management. The purpose of this article describes the first Obeya panel: vision

Edmond Nguyen Reynald Debaut-Henocque
on Jun 14, 2020
Culture & Methods

Critical Metrics to Keep Delivering Software Effectively in the "New Normal" World

The health of your software delivery capability is critical in the ‘new normal’ world. This requires the ability to track a hierarchy of metrics. Our top five overall delivery health metrics include: Time to Value; Deployment Frequency; and Team Engagement. Whichever metrics you choose, it is managing to metrics that is critical in the ‘new normal’ world.

Charlie Ponsonby
on May 05, 2020
Culture & Methods

Application Models as Working Software

Discusses using an application model in an iterative time-bounded development approach. Employ user flows to create easily comprehended stories that contain sufficient detail. Get closer involvement from UX design and product owners to create solutions prior to the first coding iteration. Incorporate as-built decisions back into the model to ensure its relevance in an ongoing product lifecycle.

James Billson
on Feb 17, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Managing the Unmanageable

The book Managing the Unmanageable by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty provides rules, tools, and insights to manage programmers and teams. It explores how to hire and develop programmers, onboard new hires quickly and successfully, and build and nurture highly effective and productive teams.

Ben Linders Mickey Mantle Ron Lichty
on Feb 07, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation

In the book EDGE: Value-driven Digital Transformation, the authors explain why and how every business today needs to become a digital business with technology at the core. They explain six principles and a variety of practices that organisations can apply to survive and thrive on the creative edge where value is generated.

Shane Hastie Jim Highsmith Linda Luu David Robinson
on Jan 02, 2020