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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

He found the process so useful that he formalized it into a program called “Day in the Life.” Today, all new NPD hires go through this program, which is a combination of video, meetings, and (before the pandemic) visits to offices to observe people doing their jobs. That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company.

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Top 7 Ingredients to Establishing an Agile Development Practice.

Social, Agile and Transformation

More and more teams and companies are considering agile processes, SCRUM, Extreme, or hybrids to either pilot new initiatives or to establish the practice. Strong business sponsorship is needed to uphold the process and insure the team gets the support it needs. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization.

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Enterprise Agile Development - Why you still need Project Managers.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Ive been asked lately about the role of project managers on agile or SCRUM teams. Some specifics: Scrum and agile are very team and inward facing. Project managers oversee the story writing process to insure proper governance and completion. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. Agile practices evolve.

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Measuring Costs in Agile Delivery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Measuring actual costs turns out to be an easier process assuming that you have a tool to manage the backlog and a scrum master running daily standups. Youll also need to have some basic governance and insure that >X% of the teams activity is captured as stories. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization.

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Top 15 project management certifications

CIO Business Intelligence

The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). The focus on a people-oriented culture sets it apart from other project management certification programs. The CDP program is only for those who have significant project management experience. Price: $130.

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How To Get a Team to Think Agile - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

The problem is, using agile process (scrum specifically) for planning, problem solving, developing a strategy, documenting an architecture requires some discipline and thinking a little differently. Insure that the team is aligned on what they are trying to accomplish. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization.

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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 2 - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

One good way to insure a smooth transition is to learn the process either through participation, taking a training class, and ideally applying agile/SCRUM as a business process. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. This white paper, Agile Terminology Explained is a good quick read. Twitter Profile.

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