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Articles by Michael.Dougherty
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Should you trust those agile charts?
As long as they follow the CASH principle, the answer is...perhaps.
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The Agile PMO
How the project management office can become a supporting organization that improves delivery efficiency and provides delivery transparency.
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Getting your environment right
Devops applies not only to production environments, but new greenfield development projects as well. Without stable, highly automated development, testing, QA and staging environments, your delivery teams will be bogged down in major delays.
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The product owner is king
For building valuable software, the product owner is the king of delivery. The product owner determines the efficiency of the product delivered and the benefit to end users. Do not undervalue the importance of a product owner at risk of building an inferior or useless product. The product owner is the linchpin, the CEO of the product, the King or Queen.
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The opposite of agile
Ever looked at the antonyms of the word agile? By thinking about what it means to be agile, or the opposite of agile, in the context of Agile (with a capital A) delivery, enterprises can identify improvements by focusing on what behaviors to avoid. This listicle covers Agile anti-patterns and steps to prevent them from a leadership level.
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Five ways to beat the project transition blues
Transitioning from sales to delivery for an IT project is an age-old challenge. Learn five ways to improve your chances of having a successful delivery by focusing on these transition tactics.
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Story point normalization — what’s the point?
Story pointing, estimation, planning poker and velocity are all difficult concepts to grasp from a leadership level, so how can delivery help leadership better understand when a project with be done consistently across the entire delivery portfolio? Dangers include velocity inflation, poor requirements and missing XP principles.
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Slimming down to Essential SAFe
How to scale your delivery process using the lean agile concepts of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) but simplifying it to its essential components via Essential SAFe for quicker and easier adoption as a first step in business transformation.
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