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Should product managers and innovative agile teams measure business value?

Social, Agile and Transformation

How to measure business value is a question many agile teams ask me, given how much rigor I ask them to put into estimating and capturing story points.

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Happy Agile Teams: How to Ask the Right Questions

Social, Agile and Transformation

Here’s a question I think about a lot when leading digital transformations and guiding agile teams. How should I think about team happiness? Why and how is team happiness important? How should I determine whether and to what extent the team is happy?” - from Digital Trailblazer.

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How to Drive Agility with Intelligent ERP in the New Normal

Social, Agile and Transformation

Driving agility has taken on greater meaning and importance because of the COVID pandemic, and successful digital leaders recognize the urgency in enabling smarter, faster, safer, and innovative organizations.

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3 Ways you can Empower High-Performing Agile Innovation Teams

Social, Agile and Transformation

Now take a few steps backward in time, and consider how to empower your agile teams, led by product management and supported through DevOps.

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How to Focus Stakeholders on the Benefits of Agile Planning and Experimenting

Social, Agile and Transformation

Do you have a partnership with business colleagues and stakeholders aligned to agile practices, culture, and mindset?

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How to be a Program Manager in Agile Organizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

"We don't need program managers," said the agile leader. Surely, many of the responsibilities we expected of program and project managers have shifted since the pre-agile world. . Let's think about that for a few seconds.

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How to use Spikes and Deliver Agile POCs

Social, Agile and Transformation

In my last post, I discussed shallow commitments, an agile tool team can use to negotiate with product owners when they are asked to commit to more stories in a sprint above their velocity and comfort zone. Teams commit as usual and then define several stories that sit in the shallows.

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