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5 reasons why Agile transformation fails

CIO

When executives got tired of long project timelines, unclear requirements, and missed deadlines, Agile seemed like the ultimate solution since it promised faster delivery, more flexibility, and closer alignment to business needs so the strategy could be realized quicker and with a higher ROI. Agile can’t fix this. No methodology can.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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7 researched-backed reasons Agile projects falter

Agile Alliance

Agile projects fail when misapplied, often due to poor risk management, scope creep, wrong methodology, lack of support, or not fully embracing Agile principles. The post 7 researched-backed reasons Agile projects falter first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Is Agile the mean girl who’s ruining your life?

Agile Alliance

If you’re finding it difficult to “be Agile,” there’s a good chance your personality traits are at odds with what thrives in an Agile environment. The post Is Agile the mean girl who’s ruining your life? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

📅 December 5, 2024 at 9:30am PT, 12:30pm ET, 5:30pm GT Use this publication’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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A storm, a vision, and an Agile mindset

Agile Alliance

How a real-life log cabin project influenced a team’s approach to Agile, showcasing the power of adaptability, collaboration, and purpose-driven results. The post A storm, a vision, and an Agile mindset first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Agile and deadlines: How to align Agile delivery with long-term planning

Agile Alliance

Techniques for aligning Agile frameworks with the world of deadlines. The post Agile and deadlines: How to align Agile delivery with long-term planning first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager

Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.

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Team Leadership in the Age of Agile

Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant

As a senior software leader, you spend much of your time trying to optimize your team's performance – from increasing delivery rate and velocity to reducing defect rates and waste. To do this, you've learned a wide variety of techniques and methodologies - SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, DevOps, self-organized teams, and much more.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

In this webinar, learn how Enel Group worked with Agile Lab to implement Dremio as a data mesh solution for providing broad access to a unified view of their data, and how they use that architecture to enable a multitude of use cases. Leveraging Dremio for data governance and multi-cloud with Arrow Flight.

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The Next-Generation Cloud Data Lake: An Open, No-Copy Data Architecture

Why agile development concepts, when applied to the data tier, can dramatically increase data engineering agility. Read this whitepaper to learn: How this “no data copy” approach dramatically streamlines data workflows while reducing security and governance overhead.

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Skyscanner's Journey to a "Continuous Improvement" Team Culture

Speaker: Ramsay Ashby

Team metrics are in vogue, and there is no shortage of literature espousing the value of various combinations of metrics that will lead your team(s) to delivery stardom.

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A Guide to Designing Delightful Dashboards

Speaker: Daniel O'Sullivan, Product Designer, nCino and Jeff Hudock, Senior Product Manager, nCino

Importance of agility and iterative processes. All of these activities play a vital role in providing the superior experience your customers demand. In this session, we will discuss how to design, develop, and implement successful dashboards. Dashboard design do’s and don’ts. Where to start the journey.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game. Today’s teams need to operate cohesively like never before, managing the pace of both technological change and customer needs and demands.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers.