7 Ways to Organize your Backlog
Let’s have a quick look at the different types of backlogs that could be used to visualize value. 1. User Story Map User story mapping is an easy, collaborative exercise that helps you define your user’s journey with your product, to research any gaps, and what value might be uncovered in the gaps. So we […]
Agilocity Training in a COVID-19 World
We’ve adapted to the changing world by exclusively offering all our training (public and private setting) courses as online facilitator-driven events. Based on industry guidance and our own experience, courses are limited to a maximum of 4 hours per day, and as such, you’ll see our two-day courses being held over 4-days and our three-day […]
Quick Pointers on Building Trust
Share thought processes on important issues and involve the team in decision- making Create clear and transparent methods of working through team charters Create team (shared) OKR’s as opposed to individual OKR’s Show interest and stay in touch on the personal concerns of team members Celebrate success as a team but give constructive feedback individually […]
Leveraging the Lean-Agile Mindset for Business Agility
Leveraging the Lean-Agile Mindset for Business Agility By Divya Jain & Joel Oosthuizen. Many of today’s mega corporations come from an era of a mono way of working. This way was characterized through batch-thinking, siloed business functions, centralized command to execute corporate strategy and so on. This style led to specialist teams and excellence in […]
Organizational Design – The Foundation that Agility is Built on
Organizations aspire to an end state in which it has achieved holistic agility. Agility in this context is a state and used instead of agile, as the latter is an overloaded word with myriad of (hit and miss) meanings attached to it. Through observing many organizational agile adoptions we know that organizational agility manifests in […]
SAFe® Version Increment to 4.6 – Key Changes
SAFe 4.6 Changes — Scaled Agile Framework makes one major framework release per year and this year’s release to 4.6 has just been announced at the SAFe Summit in Washington D.C. Luckily this time around the changes are quite small in comparison to previous years where modifications to the core structure of the framework too place. […]
Transformational Leadership
Popular Enterprise Agile Frameworks – An overview
Under the term agile we find various frameworks for structuring the way teams work. When it comes to enterprise agility it’s no different as we have various agile enterprise frameworks that provide direction for how teams work together on strategic organizational solutions. Together these frameworks provide a knowledge base for organizations to pick from in […]
Going beyond traditional Agile metrics
This is a work in progress article, as I learn more I will also be updating this writing more. Don’t measure individual performance, measure team performance What is team success Working out what good and bad means What is a good metric? What is a bad metric? Mining data from an electronic tool ends up […]