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How to Stop Leaving Software CapEx on the Table With Agile and DevOps
Traditional accounting practices are tailor made for waterfall project management. Organizations that have transitioned to the use of standing product teams using Agile and DevOps need to transform their accounting practices as well or they will leave valuable capital expenditure dollars on the table.
Scaling Agile – Essential for Your Organization
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.
Scrum Destroyed the Product Owner Role
When trying to implement Agile as a defined process, Scrum turned BAs or other roles into order takers with the title “product owner.” This undermines the entire value proposition of product management.
Product Owners: Tools Are Only Part of the Solution
Tools are important to product teams, but only when they support solid people and processes.
Why Should Scrum Masters Understand Product Ownership?
The scrum master is like the conductor of an orchestra, ensuring that every piece fits together at the right time to create something greater than the sum of the parts. You don’t have to know how to play each instrument, but you do have to understand what each part contributes to the overall masterpiece.
Product Owners Are Only as Successful as Their Ability to Communicate
No matter how good your product roadmap and backlog are, they are only as good as your audience’s ability to understand your vision and priority.
Product Owner Capacity Planning Gets a Boost From Aha!
Aha! introduces scenario planning to give product owners the ability to create and compare multiple release approaches based on team capacity and backlog priority.
Build a Visual Product Roadmap to Increase Agreement and Alignment
If an image is worth a thousand words, a visual roadmap will save you a thousand hours.
What? Don’t Include Features in Your Product Roadmap?
ProductPlan makes a strong case for excluding features from your product roadmap. Instead, develop your roadmap using strategic themes.
Kovair Introduces Release 10.0 of Its Product Suite, Improving Its Breadth of Integrations, Administration, and Data Migration Capabilities
Kovair continues to enhance its product suite with the introduction of version 10.0. The updates cover its Omnibus, ALM Studio, and QuickSync products.
GitHub Free for Teams Helps Level the Playing Field
Almost a decade has passed since Marc Andreessen’s article “Why Software Is Eating The World” passionately defended the rise of software and its potential to disrupt every industry. The ensuing decade has proven his thesis to be true.
OpsHub Brings Integration to the Masses
OpsHub, a provider of integration and migration solutions for ALM and DevOps tools, has offered a free edition of tits integration solution OpsHub Integration Manager.
Developing Resource Skills to Support Your Product
Product ownership is far more than backlogs and delivery. Are you ensuring that the teams supporting your product are enhancing their skills and experience to support your future roadmap?
Create Better Products by Doing Less
Building the best product isn’t about filling our backlogs and roadmaps, it’s about taking the time to determine those few items that will deliver the most value.
It’s Not About Projects vs. Products; It’s About Coming Together to Deliver Value
Product management should not replace project management. They are complementary and are both integral to enabling the frequent delivery of business value.
Yes! You Can Be Successful at Being Agile Remotely
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.
“Doing Agile” Is Only Part of the Software Delivery Pie
“Being Agile” enables the delivery of the right value at the right time. When most people talk about delivering the right value at the right time, they think about the core technical skills required in the action of delivering software. This is only part of the Agile software delivery pie.
Providing Customer Value Beyond Software
Companies that support customers through tough times build stronger relationships and loyalty. Develop a deeper understanding of the opportunities and threats facing your customers to shift products and services to address these needs.
Centric PLM Launches Quick-Start Collaboration Packages in Response to COVID-19
Centric Software launched Quick-Start Collaboration Packages to enable brands, retailers, and manufacturers to rapidly adopt remote work processes across the product lifecycle.
Agile Skills Don’t Revolve Around Ceremonies and Procedures: They’re About Traits and Values.
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.
IIBA Shares Its Insight at Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas
IIBA understands that it must continue to innovate to serve its members and help them succeed within their organizations.