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Agile Usage Statistics: Explore the latest agile statistics of 2024 and gain insights into the success rates, benefits, and industry trends.

Discover agile estimation principles & planning methods for project success. Dive into uncertainty, valuable estimates & agile delivery processes.

Scrum has not been immune to controversy, and the history of how and who invented it is a topic of frequent debate. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy describes this popular framework's confusing origin story.

That multiweek cycle that suits the dev team isn’t always a great fit for devops

Reprint: R0711C Many executives are surprised when previously successful leadership approaches fail in new situations, but different contexts call for different kinds of responses. Before addressing a situation, leaders need to recognize which context governs it—and tailor their actions accordingly. Snowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that’s based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework, which helps executives sort issues into five contexts: Simple contexts are characterized by stability and cause-and-effect relationships that are clear to everyone. Often, the right answer is self-evident. In this realm of “known knowns,” leaders must first assess the facts of a situation—that is, “sense” it—then categorize and respond to it. Complicated contexts may contain multiple right answers, and though there is a clear relationship between cause and effect, not everyone can see it. This is the realm of “known unknowns.” Here, leaders must sense, analyze, and respond. In a complex context, right answers can’t be ferreted out at all; rather, instructive patterns emerge if the leader conducts experiments that can safely fail. This is the realm of “unknown unknowns,” where much of contemporary business operates. Leaders in this context need to probe first, then sense, and then respond. In a chaotic context, searching for right answers is pointless. The relationships between cause and effect are impossible to determine because they shift constantly and no manageable patterns exist. This is the realm of unknowables (the events of September 11, 2001, fall into this category). In this domain, a leader must first act to establish order, sense where stability is present, and then work to transform the situation from chaos to complexity. The fifth context, disorder, applies when it is unclear which of the other four contexts is predominant. The way out is to break the situation into its constituent parts and assign each to one of the other four realms. Leaders can then make decisions and intervene in contextually appropriate ways.

A/B testing is a way to compare two versions of something to figure out which performs better. While it’s most often associated with websites and apps, the method is almost 100 years old and it’s one of the simplest forms of a randomized controlled experiment. This testing method has risen in popularity over the last couple of decades as companies have realized that the online environment is well-suited to help managers, especially marketers, answer questions like, “What is most likely to make people click? Or buy our product? Or register with our site?”. It’s now used to evaluate everything from website design to online offers to headlines to product descriptions. The test works by showing two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) different versions of a product or site and then determining which influenced your success metric the most. While it’s an often-used method, there are several mistakes that managers make when doing A/B testing: reacting to early data without letting the test run its full course; looking at too many metrics instead of focusing on the ones they most care about; and not doing enough retesting to be sure they didn’t get false positive results.

In Norway, public agencies procure goods and services for close to 60 billion Euros every year. Innovative procurements is a new method for public procurements. In Innovative procurements requesting pre-defined solutions from the market is discouraged. Instead, needs and functions are communicated to the market, which in turn responds on how to best solve this. […]

Accelerate measures software delivery performance—and what drives it—using four years of groundbreaking research and rigorous statistical methods: DORA Metrics.

When I recently asked a room full of people “What is the difference between Acceptance Criteria and Conditions of Satisfaction?”, I expected definitions

If you don’t care about quality, you can meet any other requirement. —Gerald M. Weinberg Agile Testing Note: This article is part of Extended SAFe Guidance and represents official SAFe content that cannot be accessed directly from the Big Picture. Agile Testing is an approach to systems and software testing that develops and tests systems in small increments, often developing tests before writing the code, Story, or Feature. Although traditional development often uses a deferred, big-batch testing approach, tests help elaborateRead more

Lean-Agile Leaders need to understand an Enterprise’s current software development capitalization practice, as well as how to apply these principles in Agile development. Otherwise, the transformation to Agile may be blocked or, alternately, the company may not be able to correctly account for development expense. —SAFe advice CapEx and OpEx Note: This article is part of Extended SAFe Guidance and represents official SAFe content that cannot be accessed directly from the Big Picture. Capital Expenses (CapEx) and Operating Expenses (OpEx) describeRead more

Agile is the approach to project management that is used to build and run government digital services.

Learn the unique terminology used in Agile, Scrum and Kanban. This glossary is meant to represent an overview of Scrum, Agile, Kanban, XP and some other related terms.

How do you get the best estimate of story size when estimating? I explore seven ways to make estimates easier and more accurate. Find out more inside.

Some agile teams estimate using a fixed set of values based on the Fibonacci sequence. Learn the science behind this approach and why it works so well.

Learn the unique terminology used in Agile development from the experts at Agile Alliance.

Agile portfolio management helps large teams and developers efficiently manage projects. Read here to learn about high-functioning agile portfolios.

Agile prioritization technique is one of the major concepts of agile practices and a very essential topic for PMI-ACP exam preparation towards achieving an agile certification.

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Learn how to apply agile concepts to your projects. This fully updated book covers changes to agile approaches and new information related to the methods of managing an agile project.

Scrum teams estimate both product backlog items and sprint user stories--but in distinct units and at separate times.

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DevOps security that's easily incorporated into app delivery pipelines and efficiently managed by IT ops among private and public cloud data centers is a top priority for Alaska Airlines as it modernizes its applications.