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Develop Your Agile Approach for a Successful Transformation

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Agile transformations can be difficult and complex to implement. That’s because they require fundamental changes in the way an organization thinks and behaves (and many organizations don’t fully understand the changes required). This solution set explains Agile fundamentals, principles, and...

Understand Agile fundamentals, principles, and practices so you can apply them effectively in your organization.

...rmations can be difficult and complex to implementThat’s because they require fundamental changes in the way an organization thinks and behaves (and many organizations don’t fully understand the changes required). This solution set explains Agile fundamentals, principles, and practices in an easy-to-understand way, regardless of whether you are.

Agile Skills Don’t Revolve Around Ceremonies and Procedures: They’re About Traits and Values.

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Agile skills require an evolution in people’s soft skills and behaviors. Handling ambiguity, being agreeable, and being extroverted are some of what’s important for an effective agile team.

Agile skills require an evolution in people’s soft skills and behaviors. Scrum.Org and McKinsey & Company collaborated on a study to explore the values and traits of individuals who make up successful agile teams. Source: Info-Tech's Implement Agile Practices That Work blueprint. ...to Know More?To learn more about the agile skills and values.

Scaling Agile – Essential for Your Organization

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So you’ve gone Agile. You do daily scrums, retrospectives, and all the “right” Agile ceremonies. But still your organization isn’t quite convinced. It is now critical to balance the drivers and goals of both Agile and traditional thinking in order to achieve organizational success.

What Is Scaling AgileAtlassian defines scaled Agile as “a cultural transformation, where the business’ people, practices, and tools are committed to improving collaboration and the organization’s ability to execute against its strategy.”. ...anizations in scaling AgileBelow is a roundup of a few that are commonly used in the industry: Scaled.

Manage Requirements in an Agile Environment – Agile Requirements Maturity Assessment

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Establishes your current Agile requirements maturity, defines your target maturity, and supports planning to get there.

Establishes your current Agile requirements maturity, defines your target maturity, and supports planning to get there. The Agile Requirements Assessment is a great tool for determining your current capabilities and maturity in Agile and business analysis. You can also articulate your target state, which enables the identification of capability.

Manage Requirements in an Agile Environment

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When navigating to Agile from waterfall, requirements management can be difficult. If you lack alignment, significant time, money and effort can be wasted.

Agile and requirements management are complementary, not competitors.

Great for onboarding, reviewing progress, and ensuring a shared understanding of your ways of working.Your Agile Requirements Playbook includes:- Your Shared Definition of Agile and Business Analysis for Your Organization- The Agile Requirements Maturity Assessment- A Methodology Selection Matrix- Agile Requirements RACI- A defined Agile.

Agile Readiness Assessment Survey

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The Agile Readiness Survey leverages the wisdom of crowds to help you assess your organization’s readiness for an Agile transformation by examining the six dimensions of Info-Tech’s CLAIM+G model. Use this survey to identify and address potential roadblocks to your Agile transformation and...

Understand how ready your organization is for an Agile transformation.

The Agile Readiness Survey leverages the wisdom of crowds to help you assess your organization’s readiness for an Agile transformation by examining the six dimensions of Info-Tech’s CLAIM+G model. Use this survey to identify and address potential roadblocks to your Agile transformation and identify whether roadblocks are organization-wide or.

Yes! You Can Be Successful at Being Agile Remotely

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Being Agile requires a change in focus on the skills that we value. While face-to-face contact is generally preferred, it is not always possible. This does not mean that being Agile is not possible, but it does require a different level of focus.

In their book From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby describe what it takes to have successful Agile teams as follows: Have the necessary skills and capabilities their team requires to deliver on their objectives Are committed to a common purpose or goal Are interdependent and therefore make commitments.

Perform an Agile Skills Assessment

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Your organization is trying to address the key delivery challenges you are facing. Early experiments with Agile are starting to bear fruit. Info-Tech’s approach will enable you to ensure you have the right skills in place to effectively mature and scale your Agile practice.

Being Agile isn’t about processes, it’s about people.

Your organization is trying to address the key delivery challenges you are facing. Early experiments with Agile are starting to bear fruit. Info-Tech’s approach will enable you to ensure you have the right skills in place to effectively mature and scale your Agile practice. Being Agile isn’t about processes, it’s about people.

Extend Agile Practices Beyond IT

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Dependencies upon the business to provide product delivery goals can generate logistical, integration, and communication challenges that will create process bottlenecks and frustration. Additionally, existing organizational constraints, compliance, and culture can restrict the reach of Agile into...

Further the benefits of Agile by extending a scaled Agile framework to the business.

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should extend Agile practices, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the ways we can support you in completing this project. Read this Executive Brief to:Understand why scaling vertically to the business is critical for maintaining the positive momentum established by scaling across.

Mentoring for Agile Teams

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Most command and control–style organizations struggle with adopting Agile because it requires a different way of working. To be successful, you’ll need Agile Mentoring to support you through many of the common Agile challenges you will face in your organization.

Because Agile transformations can be difficult to navigate on your own.

Read this Executive Brief to understand how an Agile playbook can help your organization to successfully establish Agile practices within your context. Leverage a holistic relationship with your dedicated Info-Tech Agile Mentor for trusted guidance based on a deep knowledge of your organization, history, and context. Assess your Agile skills and.