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For Best Agile Transformation, Choose the Right People

Understand the Importance of Choosing the Right People for Agile Transformation: In my 20+ years of association with software development, one thing I’ve realized is how important it is to…

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Ultimate Guide for People Managers in SAFe

People managers play a critical role in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environments. Unlike traditional management roles, which often focus on control, authority, and pushing for results, SAFe encourages value delivery…

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Why Agile Coaching is Essential for Teams Transformations

Agile transformations are complex and often met with resistance. While leadership may be eager to onboard Agile, teams frequently carry skepticism, mainly due to past negative experiences. When Agile values…

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From Ego to Essence: The ABCs of Conscious Leadership

True Leadership is the offspring of a Conscious mind; it arises from decisions unfettered by biases and untainted by ego. -Amitabh Sinha The Need for Conscious Leaders Today, the world…

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"Discover why SAFe Training and Certification are vital for mastering Agile practices, driving agilonomics, and ensuring organizational success."

Why SAFe Training and Certification are Important?

SAFe training and certification are quite popular today. They are important for anyone who is seeking to work in an environment implementing Agile at Scale. The SAFe concepts will not…

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Why SAFe Training with Agilonomics?

SAFe(Scaled Agile Framework) is more than just a framework. Many consider it heavy-weight. We feel it is a comprehensive approach for guiding Agile practices to scale across an organization. The…

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Agile and AI Development: Bridging Complexity with Flexibility

Why Agile with AI is Important Today? The world of technology is changing as always. Many feel threatened today with the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on their jobs and…

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Key Strategies for a Successful Agile Transformation in a Dynamic Business Landscape.

Strategies for Successful Agile Transformation

Introduction: What is Agile Transformation? Agile Transformation in simple words means creating effectiveness in teamwork through Agile Mindset that impacts behaviors and culture and organizes people into effective teams (as…

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Elevate performance in evolving industries with agile data science mastery. Explore strategies for high-performing teams in agilonomics-driven environments.

Data Science Mastery: Agile Strategies for High-Performance Teams in Evolving Industries

This is an informative, educational article and is being written in two parts. Part 1, below is an introduction about Data Science Teams, the challenges they face. Part 2, that…

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Is Demand for collocated teams – A Dead Reality?

Is Demand for collocated teams – A Dead Reality? Are collocated teams a relic of the past? Perhaps not entirely. Yet, in my experience as a consultant working with various…

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Success Mantras for Startups: Agile Wisdom in Action

“The startup life is a wild ride; survival demands more than a map—it requires a compass, and that compass is Agile.” In the unpredictable world of startups, where 9 out…

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Striking the perfect equilibrium: Navigating predictability and adaptability in Agile.

Exploring the challenge of maintaining a balance between predictability and adaptability in Agile methodologies.

In the Agile world, there’s a constant struggle to find the right mix between sticking to plans and being open to change. This is like walking a tightrope where, on…

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Navigate the path to Product Ownership with our comprehensive guide for aspiring professionals

Is Product Ownership Your Ideal Career? A Comprehensive Guide for Aspirants

The Product Owner (PO) role in Scrum is like a puzzle waiting to be solved. It’s a role that’s both vital and enigmatic. Is it different from a Product Manager’s…

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Steering Clear: 10 Pitfalls Every Product Owner Must Dodge

Product Owners have a lot on their plate. In fact, quite a lot! They’re the bridge connecting stakeholders, customers, and users, constantly delving into market insights and data to ensure…

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Navigating the Rough Waters of Agile Offshore Teams: A Coach’s Playbook

Intro: The Uncharted Waters of Agile Transformation Agile is no longer the new kid on the block. Over the past two decades, it’s been around the block, through the maze,…

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Power of Retrospectives

During our recent ‘immersive Agile and Scrum workshop’, I brought up a thought-provoking discussion with the participants. We were exploring the different Scrum events when I asked a question that…

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The Product Backlog: Your Secret Recipe for Bringing Products to Life!

If you were a chef in a busy kitchen, then the pages in your favorite recipe binder could be your Product Backlog. You would not consider this binder to be…

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Effective Management of Risks with Scrum

Like many others, I wasn’t an immediate fan of Agile at first. I had a strong drive to achieve results using traditional project management and waterfall methodologies that I was…

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Making the Case for a Full Time Scrum Master

Many organizations continue to struggle with grasping the true value of a full-time Scrum Master. The role of a dedicated Scrum Master often faces scrutiny and is not fully…

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Navigating the Challenge of Incorporating New Team Members

Introduction: Imagine this: You’re in the midst of a high-stakes project, smoothly sailing with your well-established team, when suddenly, the need arises to bring in new members. It’s like a…

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The Importance of Taking Breaks in Agile: Enhancing Productivity and Well-being

While working with Agile teams for many years, I’ve personally experienced the challenges of falling into the trap of working long hours and at an unsustainable pace. It’s a mindset…

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Elevating teamwork: Explore indispensable influence of responsible Product Owners.

How do Great Product Owners help their Teams – Part 2

This is the second part/continuation of the article “How do Great Product Owners help their Teams” For part 1 of the article, please refer to: How do Great Product Owners…

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Unlock team success - Insights into the role of Great Product Owners

How do Great Product Owners help their Teams – Part 1

As a self-proclaimed Scrum Master whisperer, I’ve chatted and worked with more development teams than I can count. As a result, I’ve experienced a wide diversity of Product Owners. From…

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Discover the Essential Qualities, Responsibilities, and Characteristics of a Successful Product Owner

Qualities, Responsibilities, and Characteristics of a Good Product Owner

Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum says: “The Product Owner is the CEO of the Product”. Therefore, it’s important to choose the right person for the job. Are you ready…

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Is risk merely a hurdle, or does it present an opportunity waiting to be seized?

Risk: Obstacle or Opportunity?

Do you view risks as just obstacles? Here’s why you should be seeing them as opportunities In product development, risks are often seen as just another obstacle to overcome. But…

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Agile Principle #4

One of the simplest to understand, yet the most neglected or ignored of all Agile Principles is the Principle #4: “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the…

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Agile Principle #2

Agile Principle on Change has been misunderstood for too long. Many orgs and teams view it as an excuse to make rash changes. But this couldn’t be further from the…

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Turning Setbacks Into Stepping Stones

The most successful people don’t take setbacks as “The End” but rather as an opportunity to propel them forward. Thus, they develop this uncanny ability to turn setbacks into opportunities…

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Unraveling the concept of Story Points: Learn their significance in Agile estimation and strategies for effective implementation.

What are Story Points and how to work with them?

Story points measure the estimated effort needed to complete a work item, serving as a standard unit of measurement for comparing and estimating different items. They help teams plan and…

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Experience the ethos of compassionate leadership in action with The Caring Servant Leaders.

Top Servant Leadership Traits: Caring for Your People First

Leadership is more than just achieving results. Empathy, support, empowerment and growth are visible where leadership is effective. A good leader finds creative ways to inspire his/her teams and impact…

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Unlock the secrets of Agile's Triangle of Constraints and master project dynamics for success.

Understanding the Triangle of Constraints

Is your Product delivery approach holding you back? Are you sacrificing quality for the sake of cost and time? It’s time to take a closer look at the Agile Triangle…

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Agile Principle #1

Transform the way you approach product development with the first Agile Principle – customer satisfaction through continuous delivery! For this a Scrum Team needs to understand: 1. Why this principle…

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Exploring Alistair Cockburn's insights into communication effectiveness and its impact on agilonomics principles.

Alistair Cockburn’s Effectiveness of Communication

I recently attended a 2-day training. The trainer was an expert in his field, his talk was engaging but only the trainer and I had our cameras ON. Rest of…

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Mastering the art of facilitating daily standups for maximum efficiency. Explore strategies to engage teams and drive progress.

How to facilitate effective daily standups

Are your Daily standups routine, boring and unproductive? Daily stand-ups are a hot topic in the world of scrum and often create a sense of controversy. It’s not uncommon for…

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Comparing the agility of modified waterfall methods against the flexibility of Agile frameworks in project management approaches with agilonomics.

Agilized Waterfall vs Agile

Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and Scrum Teams will find it useful to download and place it near their team workspace – either on digital (Miro, Mural etc.) or print and…

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Unlocking the potential of your workforce: Strategies for maximizing employee productivity and engagement in the workplace.

Effective “Utilization” of Employees

Have you heard the phrase? – “Watch the Baton, not the runners?” Translated to development work, it means: “Focus on Idle work, not Idle workers”! (Image 1) I still…

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Unlock the secrets of crafting impactful user stories. Dive into expert tips for creating user-centered narratives that drive product success.

A tip on creating good user stories

Experiment and Believe! So many times while using Agile, we get convinced with popular notions only to find that they don’t provide much value. Perhaps the people who made those…

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Exploring the role of managers within the Scrum framework. Learn how leadership adapts and evolves to foster agile development and team success.

Managers in Scrum

We all know that the Scrum Team consists of the three main roles – Scrum Master, Product Owner and Developers (erstwhile Development Team) Where do Managers fit in then? Many…

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Unlocking the significance of Velocity in Scrum. Understand its role in measuring team productivity and sprint success.

What does Velocity represent in Scrum?

Agile team members work together to groom, plan, commit, and deliver work every sprint. The number of story points that a team delivers in a sprint is known as velocity. …

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Unveiling the relationship between story points and time. Explore the agile estimation process and its impact on project planning.

How many hours does a Story Point equal to?

Story points were meant to be abstract. This abstraction helped bring a discussion back to work (size, complexity, bigness, etc.). In the absence of story points (in the earlier days),…

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Discover the peak effectiveness of Scrum methodology. Timing matters. Dive into when and how Scrum shines brightest.

When is scrum most effective?

Don’t use Scrum when you don’t need to! In fact, Scrum isn’t supposed to be effective for every type of development. Many teams and organizations use Scrum without understanding when…

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Unveiling the essential characteristics defining successful leaders. Explore the top 10 traits shaping effective leadership.

Top 10 Traits of Successful Leaders

Truly successful leaders have several traits in common By truly successful, I mean business leaders, who, while busy growing their organization, do not lose sight of (their) people’s growth.…

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What Does A Scrum Master Do?

Scrum Master is a mystical role in Scrum. I say mystical because many companies and leaders are unable to comprehend the importance and essence of this role. As a result,…

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Jobs To Be Done vs User Story Maps – 2

This is part 2 of the article on JTBD vs. USM For part 1 of the article, please refer to …… Jobs To Be Done vs User Story Maps In…

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Jobs To Be Done vs User Story Maps – 1

This part – 1 of the article explains situations that arise due to lack of ownership for journey mapping exercises. Who should own them?, why should they be done? Etc.…

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The Problem with Requirement Specification Documents

The creation of the PRD (Process Requirement Document) is not wrong in itself, but the bigger issue is when it is created and how extensive it is. Traditionally, the Requirement…

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The Ultimate Purpose of Servant Leadership

First and foremost, Servant Leadership is about adding value to people and their lives. To be successful at Servant Leadership is to be caring, to help everything and everyone you…

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Exploring the Complexities Behind Sprint Reviews and Strategies for Improvement.

Why Sprint Reviews Are So Hard ?

Why Effective Sprint Reviews Are So Hard To Achieve? As we know, there are four main Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. Additionally, we…

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Tackling Unfinished Stories at the end of a Sprint

More often than not, most Agile teams have committed stories that are not finished by the time a Sprint ends. Teams struggle to understand the best way on how to…

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A Meaningful Dashboard for Agile Teams

Metrics are important for Agile teams. It is wiser to focus on a handful of simple balanced metrics rather than hoard of metrics that does not give much value to…

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Scrum Master VS an Agile Coach

The reason for Agile Coach role being so much in demand is that, the growth of Agile and Scrum has been exponential in the last 7-10 years. The Scrum Master…

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A Fool With A Tool Will Still Be A Fool

Having worked in the Agile space for many years, and having experimented with so many ideas including processes, tools and work dynamics between people, I’ve come to realize that although…

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Community of Practice for Scrum Masters

The Scrum Master is one of the most important roles of Scrum. It takes years to master this role and interacting with others serving in the same role can advance…

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An Ideal Career Path for a Scrum Master

An Ideal Scrum Master Career Path The Scrum Master role is increasingly becoming more and more in demand these days. This role is played by a variety of people. We…

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Effective Scrum of Scrums Meetings

Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meetings are as popular as Scrum itself. The effectiveness of an SoS meeting depends on how it is implemented. There are a few agile teams that…

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What Are Spikes And How To Estimate Them?

Spikes are special stories or work items and they are handled slightly differently. When we work on a project, there are different kinds of work items. Some are about modifying…

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Story Points vs Task Points

Story point estimation was created to understand the relative complexity of work. The work could be of value to the end user and/or customer (whether internal or external to the…

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The DEEP Qualities of a Product Backlog

The most popular and an important artifact in Scrum, the product backlog is never complete. It is ever evolving, as a project’s requirements or environment evolves and changes. It is…

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Creating Effective and Sustainable Teams

High performing teams are a real possibility. They look, feel and move like a unit. A high performing team moves with an attitude of “us” and “we”, as opposed to…

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Scrum Masters: Keep ‘a little Bernie Sanders of Agile’ in your Heart

“Idealist: noun: 1. a person who is guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.” Keep ‘a little Bernie Sanders of Agile’ in your heart. Bernie, with his ideals on…

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Product Owner or Business Analyst

BUSINESS ANALYST The Business Analyst (BA) and similar (related) roles (SA, BSA etc.) have gained prominence over the past few years. One of the reasons for this to have happened…

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A RAMBLE ABOUT METRICS – ZACH BONAKER

MEASURING AGILE How will you show the progress of agile transformation? How will you measure improvement in teams and people? And how will you avoid the trap of shallow metrics…

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Scrum Master and Project Manager

It is very common for Scrum teams to deal with a plethora of issues not to mention the transitioning to scrum itself. Where do you think these issues originate from?…

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Agile SOW

Software projects are becoming increasingly complex. This complexity demands Agility. Agility translates to faster product increments, shorter review cycles, end-to-end picture of the product which essentially means incremental and iterative…

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