1. Focus on teams and collaboration. Agile methodology at its heart is a collaboration model. Build small, empowered, cross-functional teams, and set them loose.

1. Productize your capabilities. First, leaders must identify the products around which their operating model will be designed. We define a “product” in this context as: ...

Agile leaders can’t just apply out-of-the-box scrum or Kanban to IT operations teams. Several significant differences in the culture and operating model need consideration. Here are a few steps ...

Click here for the report. 3. Consider A Team-Based CEO Strategy: To tweak an old adage, sometimes it takes a village to build an Agile-friendly C-suite.Consider, for example, Scrum Alliance. When ...

Figure 1 below describes the Agile Operating Model at the Enterprise Level in more detail, with five dimensions: Goals and value; Structure; Agile teams ...

Under an agile model, on the other hand, a project is organized into separate modules, and the development and testing work on these modules is done in short sprints. Identifying when the traditional ...

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One of the most common questions I get from agile development leaders is how to fit quality assurance (QA) practices in the agile development process, especially for teams using the scrum methodology.

An agile version of the Healthcare.gov project, for example, might have first released just the log-in component, or “front door,” for public use, before developing any of the tools to find ...

How to be agile in six steps Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland and Hirotaka Takeuchi Updated May 17, 2016 – 9.29am , first published at May 15, 2016 – 3.00pm ...