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Encourage Lateral and Vertical Movement in an Agile a Career Ladder, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Worse, most career ladders assume we can assess what a person can do, not on their contributions to an agile team. That means most career ladders don't fit agile teams or an agile culture. Instead of individual achievements, we can reward the types of agile leadership we want to see in agile teams.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale. Yes, cancel.

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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. Assess Your Product Subject Matter Domain Expertise There are at least two kinds of domain expertise: the product itself, and agile/lean expertise.

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Epicflow Updates: Managing Teams and Dividing Project Work into Phases

Epicflow

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

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5 Strategies for Success in Product Management

Tom Spencer

It also ensures more informed and holistic decision-making by making sure that the perspectives of engineers, designers, marketers, and executives are understood. Adopt an Agile Mindset The ability to embrace an agile mindset is a hallmark of great product managers.

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What is the best framework to apply Scrum/Agile for IT Engi.

Consulthon

Hi, Would you share with me your experience of what framework do you use, when you want to implement Scrum/ Agile practices in a team of IT Engineers?I I would like to make an analysis of the best a.

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Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products

Johanna Rothman

I had a conversation with a hardware engineer whose organization got the mandate, “Go agile or bust!” We can assess or somehow predict the relative cost of each of these deliverables: Simulations: You pay for the simulation software once per engineer. Agile approaches work when the cost of change is low.

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