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Agile Approaches to AI Policy Development

To both understand the implications of EU’s proposed AI Act and involve relevant stakeholders in the process we have adopted an agile approach to policy development.

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Agile from the Frontlines: Overcoming Inertia in the Federal Government

Agile Transformation initiatives need not originate at the senior management level. By examining the successes and failures along the journey of a mission-critical system for the United States Federal Government, this experience report discusses how the business and IT established a true partnership to effect organizational change from the grassroots level.

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Uncover the unknown with Gemba Troika Consulting

Knowledge sharing in large groups of Scrum Masters is a challenge. Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak it was an issue in SimCorp, and the pandemic did not improve this situation at all. All collaboration happened online, and the challenge for SimCorp’s 40 Scrum masters grew.

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Towards a sustainable remote-first team environment: one pairing session at a time

Everyone wants to work in a healthy and safe environment, where you’re free and comfortable to share your ideas and feel valued and heard. We found pair programming as the glue to build a culture of trust within a remote environment.

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Architecting a Globally Distributed Software Development Organization for Continual Development

As an agile development project grows and distributes over different places and timezones, communication overhead increases. If its communication systems are not carefully designed, friction and miscommunication can cripple it to the point of being less effective than a single team working alone.

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User Experience design: a true part of SAFe or a patch?

This experience was derived during our transformation to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in Demant, started in January 2021 and ongoing. In this report we share our experiences and sum up what we did wrong and learned about building high-performing Design Teams under the SAFe umbrella.

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The Art of Splitting an ART

When organisations use the Scaled Agile Framework® [Scaled Agile Framework] they may come to the point where their Agile (ART) Release Trains have grown too big. This report is about our journey of splitting an ART using ideas from Team Topologies and the principle of self-selection.

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Using a chatbot to do DevOpsCust

How do you re-invent great customer experience in a 230-year-old compliance regulated conservative company -whose products are the least sexy you can buy, and whose customers identify your brand with an old man in tweed? This is a story about combining courage, girl power, experimenting with agile methodologies and conversational AI and how we succeeded in 2 mont

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Professionalising the Scrum Master Role

The global pump manufacturer Grundfos is experimenting with implementing Agile techniques for the development of hardware and software components. This article describes how the authors guided and supported the professional development of the Scrum Masters role and competencies, with an emphasis on challenges encountered and lessons learned.

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What we learned from descaling 25 Scrum teams

What happens when you descale? We learned that some additional roles and events are needed to address cross-team and cross-organizational alignment and prioritization, when our organization went from a ‘Spotify-inspired” setup to a descaled setup with 25 stand-alone autonomous Scrum teams.

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The Unpredictable Bean Counters

This is an experience report sharing the findings and learnings of an agile coach trying to make small changes to a large organization, only to fail to change much of anything. While they journey and the struggle goes on to grow and evolve, there is still much to learn.

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The art of ART redesign

Upon going from an ART as an organizational structure to an ART as a means for execution, I found out first-hand how something as simple as a first draft can mess up the entire perception of an otherwise well-intentioned redesign.

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Agile product delivery in the pandemic’s remote work environment

The Covid pandemic with its unprecedented lockdowns and border closures has caused global business disruptions that most of us haven’t witnessed ever before. One of the biggest challenges for many of us Agile leaders has been adapting our human centric, collaborative ways of working to the remote working compulsions imposed by the pandemic.

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Optimize your organizational structure for agility

Organizations typically focus on improved collaboration within teams, yet they do necklet the potential of improved inter-team collaboration. For an organization “being agile” instead of “doing agile”, it is crucial to apply organizational design thinking and systems modelling to optimize the whole organization for agility and provide the surrounding conditions for the teams’ collaboration.

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How Agile Can Make a Difference for Climate Action and Sustainability

More and more people think about sustainability and their personal responsibility. For example, people talk about individual efforts which often include using less plastic, eating less meat, or reducing the carbon footprint we create by air travel.

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Leadership and Agile: Are You ‘In Control’?

Leaders of organizations using lean-agile ways of working on the work floor need to adopt a new way of leading the organization. In this paper, I present a complete and reframed leadership system that allows leaders to gain a different form of being ‘in control’; a form that is compatible with a lean-agile way of working. I also describe experiences and lessons learned while implementing this leadership system.

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