Agile Workshops for Executives

SolutionsIQ offers two comprehensive workshops that help executives learn what to expect and how to prepare for a successful transition to an Agile organization.

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Agile Management Practices

Today, the pace of project management moves faster, but balancing the needs of the project management process against those of a creative technical team can be a challenge—too much process can result in stifling innovation, while too little risks timely project completion. By adopting Agile methods, traditional project management can become more flexible and much more responsive to customers. Agile Management Practices can enable leadership and teams to achieve these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. These resources cover some basic tenets of APM and how to apply them successfully.


Agile EVM: Earned Value Analysis in Scrum Projects

brent-barton-agile-scrum by Tamara Sulaiman, Brent Barton and Thomas Blackburn

This white paper describes a study that tracked how to maximize Return on Investment (ROI) and project performance in Scrum.

 


Agile EVM: Project Portfolio Management

brent-barton-agile-scum by Brent Barton

Watch this presentation to explore project portfolio management from many different perspectives in order to successfully apply AgileEVM and benefit from Agile methods in a scaled environment.

 


Agile Governance

Charlie Rudd SolutionsIQ CEO by Charlie Rudd

This presentation from Agile India 2012 explains why conflicts often arise between Agile practitioners and the governance policies of their organizations and how they can be resolved.

 


Agile Metrics Panel Discussion

bryan-stallings-agile-scrum by Bryan Stallins and David Wylie

Learn the basics of Agile metrics -- what works, how to deal with traditional management, and how to show the true progress that Agile projects can make – in this webinar.

 


Agile Portfolio Management

john-rudd-agile by John Rudd and Bryan Stallings

As organizations adopt agile practices, they often stumble when it comes to determining how to reconcile their agile projects with their existing portfolio and governance policies. What worked for a traditional project lifecycle may not be appropriate for agile projects.

 


Agile: Real Options in an Uncertain World

john-rudd-agile by John Rudd

Too many technology projects fail to deliver on the expected value. Learn how Agile practices are an attractive alternative to wholesale cost-cutting and how to realize more value sooner, with better results.

 


A Non-Software Scrum Experience: Scrum-But or Context-Sensitive?

halim dunsky scrum by Halim Dunsky

Learn how Agile principles improve regular software development practices in this presentation from the Agile 2010 conference

 


Confronting Business Uncertainty

Charlie Rudd SolutionsIQ CEO by Charlie Rudd

This presentation from Agile India 2012 explains why Agile principles are needed to make good management decisions in an uncertain business environment and why past practices no longer work.

 


Establishing and Maintaining Top to Bottom Transparency Using the Meta-Scrum

brent-barton-agile-scrum by Brent Barton

Learn how a properly executed Meta-Scrum helps drive transparency vertically into the organization in this Agile Journal article.

 


Focus on Value: How to Create Value-Driven User Stories

chris-sterling-agile-scrum by Chris Sterling

Learn about the value-driven user story exercise and how it supports just-in-time elaboration of features based on value in this Scrum Alliance article.

 


In Agile We Trust

charlie-rudd-agile-scrum by Charlie Rudd

This Projects@Work article details how Agile principles remind us that software development is done by teams of humans who do human things (like think, create, talk, and envision the future), and why collaboration needs to be fostered, nurtured, and vigilantly safeguarded.

 


Product Owner Anti-Patterns

monica-yap-agile-scrum by Monica Yap

This presentation from the Scrum Gathering Shanghai 2010 explores some common Product Owner anti-patterns, how they contribute to project failure, and their remedies.

 


Raising the Bar with Agile

charlie-rudd-agile-scrum by Charlie Rudd

This Projects@Work article highlights some best practices for aligning the needs of people, teams, and organizations.

 


ScrumMastering in the Real World

michael-tardiff-agile-scrum by Michael Tardiff

Being a ScrumMaster is not a role for the faint of heart. This presentation, subtitled "What I Wish I Knew Before I Became a ScrumMaster", explores non-obvious insights into what a ScrumMaster can do to help their teams grow into great teams.

 


Swarming: The Birds and the Bees and Agile

dhaval-panchal-agile-scrum by Tom Perry and Dhaval Panchal

This Agile 2008 conference presentation explores swarming as an analogy for Agile teamwork, and details its characteristics.

 


Value-Driven User Stories Exercise

chris-sterling-agile-scrum by Chris Sterling

Learn about the value-driven user stories exercise that is used by Scrum product owners and their teams to identify required product functionality based on user needs in this white paper.

 


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