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There are many different ways to introduce Agile into your organization by a variety of frameworks. Our framework resources explore the different Agile frameworks including Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban, SAFe, DAD, LeSS, and several others.

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Should your user stories fit into one sprint?

Should a user story fit entirely into one sprint? What are the benefits of having Stories smaller than one iteration? Why should you split bigger user stories? And why divide stories into even smaller pieces? What is the v…

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The fury of OKRs

Objectives and key results, OKRs for short, are in vogue all over the world. And while they can certainly be valuable, unfortunately, bad, decontextualized, and inappropriate practices have run wild in the world of OKRs. The tw…

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Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky

Agility isn’t a formula, a framework, nor a set of roles and rituals to follow. It’s a timeless way of thinking and being that matures with practice and skill. Becoming agile involves knowing the difference between being quick or …

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What You Need to Know About Human Centered Design and Hearing the Voice of the Customer

Product failure rates are massive. How massive? According to Clayton Christensen, former Harvard Business School professor, 95% of new products fail. If you’re an Agile product manager, engineer or leader, this is of obvious conce…

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Simple and Effective Solutions to Agile Finance

Agile impacts and challenges today’s finance organization requiring innovative new approaches for success. Unfortunately, financial guidance related to agile is sparse and often lacks practical guidance for adoption. The Agile Fin…

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Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping

In a company, department, or team, we will often talk about “strategy”. This term is rarely well defined, or at least not defined in a way that is useful. It usually means that we need to see into the future to outmaneuver our com…

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A Framework for Expanding from Agility to Self-Reliant and Resilient Organizations

This post is from Isos Technology, an Agile2022 Sponsor. Although I’m the Director of Agile Services at Isos Technology, I sometimes wish the word “Agile” wasn’t a part of my title. Sounds crazy, right? Now hear me out: …

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Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata

(Kata is a Japanese word meaning "form." Traditionally, it referred to a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements meant to help one learn/improve through repetition. You can learn more about kata in a business sens…

Project management agile methodology, concept. A young blonde woman in glasses, gluing colored sticky notes on a magnetic Board.

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Under-commitment leads to higher sprint velocity

In 2021, we noticed a trend with several of our full-stack development squads (scrum teams) of a stagnant or decreasing sprint velocity. My colleague Scrum Master Lauren Williams and I theorized that the cause of this was consiste…

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Agile in education: students buying into their own learning

The following post is about an Agile Alliance-sponsored non-profit event. You can see all our sponsored community events here. As a part of the Agile for Humanity 2022 Virtual Conference, one panel should be especially interest…

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Agile Architectures

Some folks swear a microservices architecture is always a good choice and that a monolith architecture is always a bad choice. But is this true? And is this true for you and your product? Come to think of it – what archi…

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The Future of Software Engineering: Where will Machine Learning, Agile, and Virtualization Take us Next?

Software engineering has embraced many innovations over the past fifty years: structured programming, OO design, agile approaches, and now machine learning. Programming paradigms, tools, and systems have evolved in complexity and …

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AGILE RESOURCES

Framework-Related Resources

Should your user stories fit into one sprint?

The fury of OKRs

Joy of Agility – Joshua Kerievsky

What You Need to Know About Human Centered Design and Hearing the Voice of the Customer

Simple and Effective Solutions to Agile Finance

Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping

A Framework for Expanding from Agility to Self-Reliant and Resilient Organizations

Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata

Under-commitment leads to higher sprint velocity

Agile in education: students buying into their own learning

Agile Architectures

The Future of Software Engineering: Where will Machine Learning, Agile, and Virtualization Take us Next?

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