Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Watch to see what problems a simple exercise such as this presents to teams. To view the content on this page, you must be a Member of the Agile Alliance. The post The Pencil Challenge first appeared on Agile Alliance. Can you pass your pencil to other team members on a Zoom chat? PLEASE LOG IN. Learn … Continued.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Pull coaching Traditional Agile Coaching goes like this: we take a look at what you are doing and we advise you what we think is a good next step in your growth and Agile Maturity. These next steps are supported by exercises, simulations, insights and experience that come from our own personal Agile Backpack. […].

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introduction People Internal Quality Lovability Visibility Agility Profitability How are you measuring productivity? I walked them through an exercise right there on the CEOs dining room table. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. But its still an interesting thought exercise.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the year 2004, two academicsMiachael Lombardo and Robert Eichingercoined the term learning agility and described it as one of the key metrics to measure leadership potential. Simply put, learning agility is a blend of curiosity, self-awareness, and a growth mindset. A lack of learning agility. What is learning agility?

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Gorilla Logic

AUGUST 25, 2021

A long time ago, one of my college professors told me that most of the techniques and best practices we use to improve processes or products in teams and organizations could be applied to things like exercising, parenting, and learning, just to name a few. Agile tools are designed to make your life easier.

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Luis Goncalves

JANUARY 15, 2018

Express Yourself is a simple Check-In agile retrospective exercise that aims at visualizing the team´s ideas and helping to gather data early in the team retrospective session. This should be done in later exercises. This activity gives everyone an opportunity to describe how they feel about a certain topic.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. Martin demanded.

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Openxcell

MARCH 1, 2023

There are many approaches/frameworks in the market that are deemed most feasible to develop a software product but Agile is the most prevalent and preferred one in the market right now. This exercise helps in resolving and clarifying the customer’s anticipations and requirements for the project development team.

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Mentormate

MAY 1, 2023

Agile transformation is a fundamental part of any successful digital transformation life cycle. What is Agile transformation? In simplest terms, Agile transformation is adopting agile principles that extend beyond product software development methodologies and foster a flexible, iterative mindset throughout an organization.

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Agile Alliance

JANUARY 22, 2020

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Accenture

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A recent white paper “What Moves You” by the Business Agility Institute revealed that as business agility continues to flourish, so will the focus on employee engagement. There is a meaningful place of influence for the agile leader to encourage adjacent disciplines. The exercise works well for teams of 5-7 people.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

OReilly author Andrew Stellman recommends several exercises for learning to use AI effectively. Unit tests are a useful exercise because testing logic is usually simple; its easy to see if the generated code is incorrect. Being agile when AI is writing the code is a new challengebut a necessary one.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Strategic agility: Are plans modified and resources quickly reassigned when goals aren’t being met? So, practicing with “speed drills” can be a helpful exercise. Talent operations: How quickly are new hires productive and how quickly are underperformers managed out?

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Gorilla Logic

JUNE 24, 2021

You may have been surprised to see the word “exercise” in the same headline as the words “ software developer.” But exercise is not just about looking better physically. According to an article published by the University of Iowa , exercise can help develop our brains in a multitude of ways.

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Accenture

MARCH 24, 2020

Over the last year, I’ve been privileged to work with Accenture Learning as their Agile Coach. During that time, while they’ve learned the ways of agile, I’ve been able to hone both my remote coaching skills and my knowledge of the training space. Looking for remote agile experiences? Conclusion.

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Exadel

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Read other Exadel articles about Agile approach. The importance of having teams with diverse specialties and experience is growing, and Agile has emerged as a way to help bring those varied voices together. Agile has become the new industry standard and replaced classic directive management methods. Exercising judgment.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The rise in popularity and availability of these models and the DeepSeek app itself can be attributed to three key themes market demand, open-source nature, and the desire to be agile. Enterprises are looking for cost-effective, open-weight AI alternatives as proprietary AI models remain costly and restricted.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Forget Peloton; Hydrow is still raising : You might think that in the wake of Peloton’s meltdown, investors would be over putting capital into at-home exercise equipment. “The most important thing with agility is actually being able to gracefully admit you’re wrong, or that you’ve learned new information and are adapting.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Disruption has moved from the exception to the norm With disruption now a constant rather than one-off event, organizations must be able to quickly react to change with agility across all aspects of their operating models. Here’s why. It’s no longer sufficient to pursue after-the-fact transformations.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2024

How legacy approaches create waste and stifle agility It isn’t just that traditional funding approaches aren’t aligned with current realities; it’s that they create waste and stifle agility—and actively work against many of the organization’s most critical goals. Teams work toward common, business-level objectives.

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Accenture

MARCH 26, 2019

These were just a couple of the shocking statistics on the dire state of diversity in leadership that Fabiola Eyholzer shared in her keynote at the Women in Agile session, which preceded the Business Agility Conference earlier this month in New York City. Use a gender-reversal exercise. Would we feel the same way?

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This involves establishing guardrails around AI, performing disaster training exercises, mitigating third-party threats, and more. Taking a platform-based approach reduces complexity, enabling CIOs to maintain a strong security posture without sacrificing speed or agility, she says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A company that adopts agentic AI will gain competitive advantages in innovation, efficiency and responsiveness and may become more agile in operations. Twelve different scenarios need to be tested against, and the data files need to contain or be able to contain data that will exercise those 12 tests.

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Accenture

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Recently I was conducting a Design Thinking and Agile Learning workshop with a group of seasoned consultants. It came to the first collaborative exercise with which each team table was to engage. What Makes Up the Agile Mindset? For Agile I refer to the Five Scrum Values. “My Facilitation Problem”.

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Accenture

MARCH 20, 2019

While Agile originated as an approach to software development, due to its benefits, it has since been applied in almost every industry and environment, including HR. The journey to “being Agile” in HR begins with understanding and believing in Agile values and principles then applying them to the way (and the “why”) we do our work.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 16, 2023

Software Testing in Agile Product Development Process (PDP) is an integral part of the development cycle. Therefore, Agile PDP emphasizes the importance of testing throughout the development process to ensure that the software product meets the requirements and expectations of users and stakeholders.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 23, 2021

The book The Agile Leader by Zuzana Šochová explains the need for agile leaders and explores what agile leadership looks like. It describes the skills of agile leaders, practices that they use, and provides exercises and assessments that can be used to become an agile leader.

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Agile Alliance

JULY 26, 2018

This book describes creative exercises that foster team-building and warm up the right side of your brain – the creative side.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Kanungo says a whole army approach doesn’t enable the agility required in the modern digital age where markets rapidly change. The success of that platform eventually transformed the business into a digitally-led company.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 12, 2021

On every large software project — Agile or otherwise — there are management and finance team members who want to understand how much it’s going to cost. For an existing Agile project , there’s usually a predetermined budget that accounts for all of the year’s planned features and projects. Discuss Each Item.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. As many organizations were accelerating digital transformation initiatives, the higher-performing teams excelled at change management and agile planning practices.

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Accenture

JULY 24, 2019

In this article, I want to share my experiences helping a major healthcare payer see the value of transforming to a business agility mindset so that they could achieve their desired outcome of making it easier and less painful for doctors to process claims and get paid. It all started with an ART. Finding the Why. Portfolio Planning.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile will need to renegotiate their relationship with their teams if they are to succeed. A manager cannot simply become an Agile Manager – a big part of a transition requires a rethinking of how job titles are assigned and the leadership responsibility that comes with them. Scrum Team Titles.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JULY 14, 2020

The book Agile Conversations by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick explores how productive conversations can change the way organizations develop software. By Ben Linders, Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been thinking about Agile architecture recently, since a seasoned consultant friend (Payson Hall of Catalysis, Inc.) As a former developer I am completely on board with Agile principles as a means of organizing a development team. sent me a literal cry for help. Children running around…” I love it!

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2023

As organizations move into integrated value streams and agile delivery, estimation and capacity should take a step back to drive a focus on value delivery. Capacity planning has always been at the core of the project prioritization and negotiation process between business and delivery. But who is the owner of this prioritization?

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