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You need to augment the agile process with a set of disciplines and technologies to get the full value of the agile methodology               By  Isaac Sacolick InfoWorld   |   DEC 18, 2017 Thinkstock RELATED ARTICLES How to create asynchronous web pages in ASP.Net What AI can really do for your business (and what it can’t) Virtualenv and venv: Python virtual environments explained See all Insider RELATED ARTICLES How to create asynchronous web pages in ASP.Net Virtualenv and venv: Python virtual environments explained Jenkins tutorial: Get started with Jenkins continuous... See all Insider If you are leading or participating in an agile development process and have selected an agile model like the  scrum methodology , you have a fundamental process to help align product owners with customer needs and teams on delivering results. You have the team’s

Start an Agile initiative by carefully taking stock of the organization's goals, challenges, and capabilities. Doesn’t transformation, by definition, require forward movement? How can we get to the "end point" if we start by stopping? Many organizations throw out the transformation edict as a major initiative, implement waves of Agile training and wait expectantly for the benefits. Often, the benefits never come. No one was on the same page from the beginning on what progress would look like, how it would be measured, where the data for decisions would originate, or uncovered the root cause of the problems that continue to stand in the way. Taken from real-world Agile transformations, the following are a few learnings that should be applied during the planning and assessment phase of an Agile transformation program. Start with the basics: Education and baselines From executive leadership to the individual developer, it’s important to educate (and often re-

Doing stuff quickly is only scratching the surface By  Michael Cote   11 Dec 2017 at 09:03 85     SHARE  ▼ What if I were to tell you that we knew all the best practices for software development? That they've been proven by actual industry use over the past 25 years? But that, oddly, these practices are not widely done? Well, if you read these pages, you'd probably say: "Sound about right." Agile is much spoken of, but not as broadly practiced as you may think. It's as if we all knew that the best way to cook a fine T-bone is to first let it come to room temperature – perhaps with a healthy handful of the de Camargue – but instead we just regularly yank it out of the fridge and throw it on a cold pan. O rly? You've been doing agile since AS/400s? When I talk with large organisations, all too often they legitimise themselves by telling me how many certified Scrum Masters they have. From the hundreds I hear about, they've setup some kind o