The Agile Certification Institute (ACI) offers enterprise certification programs and professional certifications related to agile methodologies like Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban. The enterprise certification programs assess processes for product development, talent development, and process improvement based on ACI standards. ACI also offers individual certifications for roles like Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and SAFe Agile Practitioners. Benefits of ACI certifications include improved employee skills and quality, reduced hiring costs, and business development opportunities. The certifications use a remote proctoring system for secure online exams. Organizations can sign multi-year agreements to access ACI certifications at a discounted rate for their employees.
How shifting thinking about an organisation as a biological, natural systems, opens significant options about how to design a better organisation. Using Nassim Taleb Antifragility concept, combined with the Cynefin Framework from Dave Snowden, it is possible to identify principles which will allow to design a better and more Resilient, possibly Antifragile organisation. In this presentation I am sharing the 6 Design Principles for an agile organisation that are at the core of the agile42 Enterprise Transition Framework (ETF). There are concrete examples from some of the companies that allowed us to share pictures.
The agile reading glasses: foundation principles and history being agile appr...Andrea Tomasini
A quick journey through the foundation of agile and the history behind it. Starting from the process control theory, moving forward through iterative and incremental approach, and the pull principle. Moving on to the continuous improvement focus, stemming from the Lean Thinking and the work done by the fore runners of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Finally discussing how agile thinking can help establishing self-organization and focus on customer value, motivating both the workers and the clients, by establishing healthier short-feedback cycle, with collaboration focused on learning faster together.
For a long time, organizations were seen more as machines in which processes are repeatable and, once set in motion, remain always the same. At agile42 we instead compare a company to an organism which grows, changes, and becomes resilient against external influences.
An organisation’s Agile transformation changes the organizational culture itself. This requires embracing a different set of values and principles, and so establishing a mindset strongly focused on collaboration and delivering customer value.
ORGANIC Agility recognises all organisational dimensions and contexts in order to create alignment between culture and business. The goal is to reduce process overhead as much as possible and create an environment of continuous improvement.
SAP-ERP ECC 6.0 implementation in Beltexco Limited which is subsidiary of MIDAS Safety(Safety gloves manufacturers) located in Karachi.Pakistan's largest implemenentation of SAP in terms of expense.
Improve the chances of success of your organization with Resilience and Antif...Andrea Tomasini
Explicitly measuring and designing culture is an enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of todays market. Are you ready for the challenge?
Agile Embedded Software Development, what's wrong with it?Andrea Tomasini
We are in 2014 and still someone is challenging the fact that you can't use an Agile approach to develop embedded systems, why? What's wrong with embedded software development? Well, there are somethings which makes it harder than needed: Dependencies with hardware releases, fixed delivery dates, inadequate software tools, limited adaptation possibility due to hardware costs... and yes, one more thing, really special: culture!
We would like to focus this keynote in analyzing some example cases that include the “limitations” listed above and also give you some hints on how to solve them. Finally we will also attack the “culture” issue. This is especially important for companies which grew out of hardware development and do not have a solid culture that include software, and therefore are stuck with waterfall development process and a traditional view on professional barriers for their employees. These companies are usually the ones not understanding that the complexity for years gone away from pure hardware, and landed in integrated product development. Without more focus in increasing quality of the process and the techniques to build - especially mission critical - functionality, the cost of failure are going to be very high, as the amount of bugs exposed to the users will rise and the competition sharpens at the same time.
Despite the Agile manifesto commitment to Individuals and interactions over processes and tools the reality too often degenerates into certification schemes focused on structured methods or even worse it degrades into tool implementation. Approaches assume a manufacturing model (the engineering metaphor) rather than a network of relationships between individuals (the biological metaphor). Requirements are fragmented, the bigger picture and wider opportunities are lost. Excessive focus on predetermined goals and KPIs fails to support continuous learning and adaptation through experimentation. In this presentation we will look at the next generation of organizational agility, creating real-time feedback loops, adaptive processes and fostering innovation - working out what is a minimal scaffolding or structure around which new and innovative applications can emerge.
How shifting thinking about an organisation as a biological, natural systems, opens significant options about how to design a better organisation. Using Nassim Taleb Antifragility concept, combined with the Cynefin Framework from Dave Snowden, it is possible to identify principles which will allow to design a better and more Resilient, possibly Antifragile organisation. In this presentation I am sharing the 6 Design Principles for an agile organisation that are at the core of the agile42 Enterprise Transition Framework (ETF). There are concrete examples from some of the companies that allowed us to share pictures.
The agile reading glasses: foundation principles and history being agile appr...Andrea Tomasini
A quick journey through the foundation of agile and the history behind it. Starting from the process control theory, moving forward through iterative and incremental approach, and the pull principle. Moving on to the continuous improvement focus, stemming from the Lean Thinking and the work done by the fore runners of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Finally discussing how agile thinking can help establishing self-organization and focus on customer value, motivating both the workers and the clients, by establishing healthier short-feedback cycle, with collaboration focused on learning faster together.
For a long time, organizations were seen more as machines in which processes are repeatable and, once set in motion, remain always the same. At agile42 we instead compare a company to an organism which grows, changes, and becomes resilient against external influences.
An organisation’s Agile transformation changes the organizational culture itself. This requires embracing a different set of values and principles, and so establishing a mindset strongly focused on collaboration and delivering customer value.
ORGANIC Agility recognises all organisational dimensions and contexts in order to create alignment between culture and business. The goal is to reduce process overhead as much as possible and create an environment of continuous improvement.
SAP-ERP ECC 6.0 implementation in Beltexco Limited which is subsidiary of MIDAS Safety(Safety gloves manufacturers) located in Karachi.Pakistan's largest implemenentation of SAP in terms of expense.
Improve the chances of success of your organization with Resilience and Antif...Andrea Tomasini
Explicitly measuring and designing culture is an enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of todays market. Are you ready for the challenge?
Agile Embedded Software Development, what's wrong with it?Andrea Tomasini
We are in 2014 and still someone is challenging the fact that you can't use an Agile approach to develop embedded systems, why? What's wrong with embedded software development? Well, there are somethings which makes it harder than needed: Dependencies with hardware releases, fixed delivery dates, inadequate software tools, limited adaptation possibility due to hardware costs... and yes, one more thing, really special: culture!
We would like to focus this keynote in analyzing some example cases that include the “limitations” listed above and also give you some hints on how to solve them. Finally we will also attack the “culture” issue. This is especially important for companies which grew out of hardware development and do not have a solid culture that include software, and therefore are stuck with waterfall development process and a traditional view on professional barriers for their employees. These companies are usually the ones not understanding that the complexity for years gone away from pure hardware, and landed in integrated product development. Without more focus in increasing quality of the process and the techniques to build - especially mission critical - functionality, the cost of failure are going to be very high, as the amount of bugs exposed to the users will rise and the competition sharpens at the same time.
Despite the Agile manifesto commitment to Individuals and interactions over processes and tools the reality too often degenerates into certification schemes focused on structured methods or even worse it degrades into tool implementation. Approaches assume a manufacturing model (the engineering metaphor) rather than a network of relationships between individuals (the biological metaphor). Requirements are fragmented, the bigger picture and wider opportunities are lost. Excessive focus on predetermined goals and KPIs fails to support continuous learning and adaptation through experimentation. In this presentation we will look at the next generation of organizational agility, creating real-time feedback loops, adaptive processes and fostering innovation - working out what is a minimal scaffolding or structure around which new and innovative applications can emerge.
Agility and Compliance (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Implementing agility in a strongly Regulated environment is sometimes a challenge. Many teams and company do find ways, but most of these are against the agile principles or are turning out to be big impediments. Mostly the problem being that from compliance authorities we get told HOW to do things and not WHAT they will measure to prove quality and compliance. Can we do better? Sure we can, transparency is the key...
Why practices are not as important as principles?Andrea Tomasini
You might wonder why is not that easy to adopt agile engineering practices and achieve technical excellence. When we think at practices we tend to think at simple things: pinning on the fridge with a magnet the list of shopping items to buy, having a clear prioritised list of things to do, and work that in order… why is then that with Agile practices is not working that easy? What is that Teams are not getting right? Is it that we don’t have the right Software tools? Or we are not collocated? The Agile dilemma is: “To effectively apply practices, you need to understand the principle, to understand the principles you need to practice!”, simply… complicated!
How to get everything right... by doing everything wrong? (Andrea Tomasini, a...Andrea Tomasini
a critical view on business changes in our age, and the impact they are having on structures and organizations which were defined in another century and are not anymore suited for today purposes. Who has the courage to challenge those structure and fully embrace change and uncertainty? How can an agile approach help to better support those changes?
From a Product Vision to a running software... and back again, and agile coac...Andrea Tomasini
Eliciting Requirements and breaking them down into actionable tasks is a challenge that requires both creativity and a systematic and analytical approach. Applying agility to Requirement Engineering, means much more than focusing on full bandwidth communication instead of documentation... Discovering a more empirical approach to Requirement Engineering - an approach that allows you to focus systematically on what needs to be done, as well as allowing creative tension to emerge and find the simplest and more concrete solutions for your Requirements engineering
The Good Shepherd - the Role of BAs in AgileDave Sharrock
Agile teams may be popping up everywhere, with ScrumMasters and Product Owners and Development Teams. But what role does the BA play? Should the BA join the team, working with the development team to deliver work requests? Or should the BA take on the role of Product Owner, working with the business to define the work requests and ranking them to maximize value delivery? Is the BA best suited to the ScrumMaster, guiding the team to predictable delivery? Or is there some other role we've not talked about? The answer, of course, is 'it depends'. We will discuss the different roles on an agile team, and investigate how the traditional responsibilities of a BA role fit within the agile context. What we want to understand is how the BA fits into the agile development process, considering how the agile team works, and how the responsibilities of the BA are addressed in an agile environment.
Adopting Scrum: an enterprise transformation (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Using Scrum as a Pattern Language for Enterprise Transformation
How Scrum Patterns can be used also to introduce Scrum itself into a company. After many years of experience and many attempts to systematically make Scrum introduction into medium and large Enterprises, agile42 shares with you tools and methods used in some of the most successful agile transition.
Estimate Value to Deliver Value: Effectively Estimate the Value of Requiremen...Dave Sharrock
Agile organizations move work to dedicated teams, rather than move people to projects. In order to succeed, the Business Analyst needs to continually compare the value of different projects or work requirements to make sure that the teams are working on the most valuable items at any one time. But how can you compare new features that increase your profitability with platform migrations that increase your system stability or administrative features that reduce operational overhead? Where do BAs spend their time and how do stakeholders get their critical projects done?
The Experience Canvas provides a one-page requirement definition that allows stakeholders to effectively discuss and estimate the value of each requirement.
Using the Experience Canvas, we show how:
Stakeholders can compare and contrast the value of very different requirements with very different objectives,
Business Analysts can estimate return-on-investment using effort estimates from the team (investment) and value estimates from the stakeholders (return).
How to grow your organization resilience and anti-fragilityAndrea Tomasini
Bringing agility to an organizational level requires a set of new skills and practices to emerge. While we have plenty of example on how agility can impact teams performance, by adopting well proven practices, there is still a lot of uncertainty in what to bring to an organizational level. Inspecting and adapting as an organization requires different structures and a more strategic approach, if we want to maximize the learning effect. Chaotic and uncontrolled experimentation and local adaptations can rapidly tear an organization apart. Focus on value and customers are important to set a common direction, but to roll out a shared strategy we need a solid and coherent cultural context, or the strategy will fail. Explicitly measuring and designing culture is a key enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change and enabling people to participate in creating rapid value, is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of today's market... Are you ready for the challenge?
The rise of the Lean Startup has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of validating business ideas, from new features to new business models. But many tools available to the Product Owner aren't adapted to rapid validation. Starting from the principles and practices of agile product management, from defining the product vision to creating story maps and refining the product backlog, you will learn about key practices that incorporate the lean startup principles, allowing a Product Owner to bring the build-measure-learn cycle alive and ultimately earn more value more quickly.
Agile teams form the building blocks for agility. Having strong agile teams allows an organization to overcome systemic issues and adapt the product development process to the needs of the business. Agile teams that are not self-organizing and continually learning can quickly become subsumed by the challenges around them. So what does it mean for a team to be agile? We look at the fundamental characteristics of high performing teams, and how to influence the team environment and selection in order to initiate a team for success.
IBM Innovate2014 - Is Agile Compliance an Oxymoron? Dave Sharrock
Agile software development is a light framework that focusses more on early value delivery and incremental improvement than traditional tasks like detailed up-front planning, comprehensive specifications and technical documentation. But from the perspective of regulatory compliance, this planning and documentation serve a purpose. How can we reconcile agile approaches that value a working product over documentation with the need to meet regulatory requirements for, e.g. medical devices or telecommunications? I will discuss how to bring together the apparently conflicting needs of regulatory compliance and agile, and show by example how agile teams actually approach tough regulatory requirements in finance, healthcare and telecommunications.
Learning Objectives
- How to use agile in a highly-regulated environment
- How to incorporate strict regulatory requirements within an agile development approach
- The power of agile as a risk-limiting software development approach
IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field GuideCarol Wingfield
The easy to digest IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field Guide documents IBM’s approach to designing, implementing, and continuously improving the operations management processes you use in your enterprise.
Please always visit ibm.biz/csmo-field-guide for the latest version.
This presentation outlines the Agile Project Management approach (based on DSDM Agile Project Framework) and the accredited qualification available from APMG International. AgilePM is a robust Agile approach which easily integrates with other project and programme methods such as PRINCE2 and AgilePgM.
IIT Academy: Agile. What is Lean? Isn't it a manufacturing thing? How do we apply it to software engineering practices?
Understand Lean in the context of modern Agile practices. Harness lean thinking and an updated look at the Toyota Production System (TPS). Designed for operational teams, maintenance teams, high availability teams, sales teams, management teams, project and portfolio management.
Leading Agile Change - AgileVancouver 2011Dave Sharrock
An often overlooked aspect of large agile transformations is how we lead that transformation. The elephant in the room, if you like, is that many coaches and transition consultants focus on helping teams become more agile, while not walking the walk themselves. It is extremely difficult to rely on many frameworks like Scrum or Kanban for managing the work of the transition team or leadership team in a large organization. We talk the talk with our teams, but don’t walk the walk.
Keynote stop scaling... start growing an agile organization!Andrea Tomasini
Companies of all sizes need to grow their own agile way of working, becoming more agile is a journey, not a destination. Unfortunately, though, most of the time agile success is left in the hands of unlikely heroes, people who are passionate about agile, but likely lack the type of power and decision making required to move to the next level. Because becoming agile requires a radical mind-shift, it takes time, and time is what most organizations seem unwilling to invest. This is where our unlikely heroes come into play, pulling the “Agile Initiative” forward with their passion. Even more unfortunately, despite the great efforts of these individuals, the organization is not willing to wait, and instead, falls into the “implement that model” in a couple of months mindset. Does this work? Well, if it does, we still need to hear that it was fast and painless… On the other hand, more and more organizations are beginning to understand that becoming more agile is an individual journey, and has to be tightly coupled with the company business goals and culture, it can’t be standardized, or the company will likely lose their business advantage and uniqueness. In this keynote I am going to share stories about some of these companies, that having tried unsuccessfully to find more heroes, understood that becoming agile is a cultural shift that needs to be supported by the whole organization, and agreed to follow a growing approach rather than an implementing approach. Principles and tools which helped these organizations to grow their agility as well as stories of their journey will be shared as an example of how change can happen without heroic actions or old style “Change Initiatives”.
ACI, as a professional global body designs, prescribes, promulgates and promotes the "BEST" in the Global Agile Standards.
ACI today offers four certification standards for individual professionals, Accredited ScrumMaster (ASM), Accredited Agile Practitioner (AAP), Accredited Product Owner (APO), and Accredited SAFe Agile Practitioner (ASAP). Two more certifications will be released from alpha testing on Dec 15, 2013.
AAP is best suited for Suited for Project Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile environments
For more information visit:
http://www.agilecertifications.org/aap.html
http://www.agilecertifications.org/
ACI, as a professional global body designs, prescribes, promulgates and promotes the "BEST" in the Global Agile Standards.
ACI today offers four certification standards for individual professionals, Accredited ScrumMaster (ASM), Accredited Agile Practitioner (AAP), Accredited Product Owner (APO), and Accredited SAFe Agile Practitioner (ASAP). Two more certifications will be released from alpha testing on Dec 15, 2013.
AAP is best suited for Suited for Project Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile environments
For more information visit:
http://www.agilecertifications.org/asap.html
http://www.agilecertifications.org/
Agility and Compliance (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Implementing agility in a strongly Regulated environment is sometimes a challenge. Many teams and company do find ways, but most of these are against the agile principles or are turning out to be big impediments. Mostly the problem being that from compliance authorities we get told HOW to do things and not WHAT they will measure to prove quality and compliance. Can we do better? Sure we can, transparency is the key...
Why practices are not as important as principles?Andrea Tomasini
You might wonder why is not that easy to adopt agile engineering practices and achieve technical excellence. When we think at practices we tend to think at simple things: pinning on the fridge with a magnet the list of shopping items to buy, having a clear prioritised list of things to do, and work that in order… why is then that with Agile practices is not working that easy? What is that Teams are not getting right? Is it that we don’t have the right Software tools? Or we are not collocated? The Agile dilemma is: “To effectively apply practices, you need to understand the principle, to understand the principles you need to practice!”, simply… complicated!
How to get everything right... by doing everything wrong? (Andrea Tomasini, a...Andrea Tomasini
a critical view on business changes in our age, and the impact they are having on structures and organizations which were defined in another century and are not anymore suited for today purposes. Who has the courage to challenge those structure and fully embrace change and uncertainty? How can an agile approach help to better support those changes?
From a Product Vision to a running software... and back again, and agile coac...Andrea Tomasini
Eliciting Requirements and breaking them down into actionable tasks is a challenge that requires both creativity and a systematic and analytical approach. Applying agility to Requirement Engineering, means much more than focusing on full bandwidth communication instead of documentation... Discovering a more empirical approach to Requirement Engineering - an approach that allows you to focus systematically on what needs to be done, as well as allowing creative tension to emerge and find the simplest and more concrete solutions for your Requirements engineering
The Good Shepherd - the Role of BAs in AgileDave Sharrock
Agile teams may be popping up everywhere, with ScrumMasters and Product Owners and Development Teams. But what role does the BA play? Should the BA join the team, working with the development team to deliver work requests? Or should the BA take on the role of Product Owner, working with the business to define the work requests and ranking them to maximize value delivery? Is the BA best suited to the ScrumMaster, guiding the team to predictable delivery? Or is there some other role we've not talked about? The answer, of course, is 'it depends'. We will discuss the different roles on an agile team, and investigate how the traditional responsibilities of a BA role fit within the agile context. What we want to understand is how the BA fits into the agile development process, considering how the agile team works, and how the responsibilities of the BA are addressed in an agile environment.
Adopting Scrum: an enterprise transformation (Andrea Tomasini, agile42)Andrea Tomasini
Using Scrum as a Pattern Language for Enterprise Transformation
How Scrum Patterns can be used also to introduce Scrum itself into a company. After many years of experience and many attempts to systematically make Scrum introduction into medium and large Enterprises, agile42 shares with you tools and methods used in some of the most successful agile transition.
Estimate Value to Deliver Value: Effectively Estimate the Value of Requiremen...Dave Sharrock
Agile organizations move work to dedicated teams, rather than move people to projects. In order to succeed, the Business Analyst needs to continually compare the value of different projects or work requirements to make sure that the teams are working on the most valuable items at any one time. But how can you compare new features that increase your profitability with platform migrations that increase your system stability or administrative features that reduce operational overhead? Where do BAs spend their time and how do stakeholders get their critical projects done?
The Experience Canvas provides a one-page requirement definition that allows stakeholders to effectively discuss and estimate the value of each requirement.
Using the Experience Canvas, we show how:
Stakeholders can compare and contrast the value of very different requirements with very different objectives,
Business Analysts can estimate return-on-investment using effort estimates from the team (investment) and value estimates from the stakeholders (return).
How to grow your organization resilience and anti-fragilityAndrea Tomasini
Bringing agility to an organizational level requires a set of new skills and practices to emerge. While we have plenty of example on how agility can impact teams performance, by adopting well proven practices, there is still a lot of uncertainty in what to bring to an organizational level. Inspecting and adapting as an organization requires different structures and a more strategic approach, if we want to maximize the learning effect. Chaotic and uncontrolled experimentation and local adaptations can rapidly tear an organization apart. Focus on value and customers are important to set a common direction, but to roll out a shared strategy we need a solid and coherent cultural context, or the strategy will fail. Explicitly measuring and designing culture is a key enabler towards agility and can provide incredible advantages to an organization development. Understanding how to lead such change and enabling people to participate in creating rapid value, is the one thing that might save your company in the rough waters of today's market... Are you ready for the challenge?
The rise of the Lean Startup has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of validating business ideas, from new features to new business models. But many tools available to the Product Owner aren't adapted to rapid validation. Starting from the principles and practices of agile product management, from defining the product vision to creating story maps and refining the product backlog, you will learn about key practices that incorporate the lean startup principles, allowing a Product Owner to bring the build-measure-learn cycle alive and ultimately earn more value more quickly.
Agile teams form the building blocks for agility. Having strong agile teams allows an organization to overcome systemic issues and adapt the product development process to the needs of the business. Agile teams that are not self-organizing and continually learning can quickly become subsumed by the challenges around them. So what does it mean for a team to be agile? We look at the fundamental characteristics of high performing teams, and how to influence the team environment and selection in order to initiate a team for success.
IBM Innovate2014 - Is Agile Compliance an Oxymoron? Dave Sharrock
Agile software development is a light framework that focusses more on early value delivery and incremental improvement than traditional tasks like detailed up-front planning, comprehensive specifications and technical documentation. But from the perspective of regulatory compliance, this planning and documentation serve a purpose. How can we reconcile agile approaches that value a working product over documentation with the need to meet regulatory requirements for, e.g. medical devices or telecommunications? I will discuss how to bring together the apparently conflicting needs of regulatory compliance and agile, and show by example how agile teams actually approach tough regulatory requirements in finance, healthcare and telecommunications.
Learning Objectives
- How to use agile in a highly-regulated environment
- How to incorporate strict regulatory requirements within an agile development approach
- The power of agile as a risk-limiting software development approach
IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field GuideCarol Wingfield
The easy to digest IBM Cloud Service Management and Operations Field Guide documents IBM’s approach to designing, implementing, and continuously improving the operations management processes you use in your enterprise.
Please always visit ibm.biz/csmo-field-guide for the latest version.
This presentation outlines the Agile Project Management approach (based on DSDM Agile Project Framework) and the accredited qualification available from APMG International. AgilePM is a robust Agile approach which easily integrates with other project and programme methods such as PRINCE2 and AgilePgM.
IIT Academy: Agile. What is Lean? Isn't it a manufacturing thing? How do we apply it to software engineering practices?
Understand Lean in the context of modern Agile practices. Harness lean thinking and an updated look at the Toyota Production System (TPS). Designed for operational teams, maintenance teams, high availability teams, sales teams, management teams, project and portfolio management.
Leading Agile Change - AgileVancouver 2011Dave Sharrock
An often overlooked aspect of large agile transformations is how we lead that transformation. The elephant in the room, if you like, is that many coaches and transition consultants focus on helping teams become more agile, while not walking the walk themselves. It is extremely difficult to rely on many frameworks like Scrum or Kanban for managing the work of the transition team or leadership team in a large organization. We talk the talk with our teams, but don’t walk the walk.
Keynote stop scaling... start growing an agile organization!Andrea Tomasini
Companies of all sizes need to grow their own agile way of working, becoming more agile is a journey, not a destination. Unfortunately, though, most of the time agile success is left in the hands of unlikely heroes, people who are passionate about agile, but likely lack the type of power and decision making required to move to the next level. Because becoming agile requires a radical mind-shift, it takes time, and time is what most organizations seem unwilling to invest. This is where our unlikely heroes come into play, pulling the “Agile Initiative” forward with their passion. Even more unfortunately, despite the great efforts of these individuals, the organization is not willing to wait, and instead, falls into the “implement that model” in a couple of months mindset. Does this work? Well, if it does, we still need to hear that it was fast and painless… On the other hand, more and more organizations are beginning to understand that becoming more agile is an individual journey, and has to be tightly coupled with the company business goals and culture, it can’t be standardized, or the company will likely lose their business advantage and uniqueness. In this keynote I am going to share stories about some of these companies, that having tried unsuccessfully to find more heroes, understood that becoming agile is a cultural shift that needs to be supported by the whole organization, and agreed to follow a growing approach rather than an implementing approach. Principles and tools which helped these organizations to grow their agility as well as stories of their journey will be shared as an example of how change can happen without heroic actions or old style “Change Initiatives”.
ACI, as a professional global body designs, prescribes, promulgates and promotes the "BEST" in the Global Agile Standards.
ACI today offers four certification standards for individual professionals, Accredited ScrumMaster (ASM), Accredited Agile Practitioner (AAP), Accredited Product Owner (APO), and Accredited SAFe Agile Practitioner (ASAP). Two more certifications will be released from alpha testing on Dec 15, 2013.
AAP is best suited for Suited for Project Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile environments
For more information visit:
http://www.agilecertifications.org/aap.html
http://www.agilecertifications.org/
ACI, as a professional global body designs, prescribes, promulgates and promotes the "BEST" in the Global Agile Standards.
ACI today offers four certification standards for individual professionals, Accredited ScrumMaster (ASM), Accredited Agile Practitioner (AAP), Accredited Product Owner (APO), and Accredited SAFe Agile Practitioner (ASAP). Two more certifications will be released from alpha testing on Dec 15, 2013.
AAP is best suited for Suited for Project Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile environments
For more information visit:
http://www.agilecertifications.org/asap.html
http://www.agilecertifications.org/
Agile Scrum Master is an advanced level Agile Project Management course that is ideal for individuals and enterprises that are looking to gain a comprehensive understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum practices and covers Scrum Master role with regards to facilitating the Scrum team that adheres to Scrum theory, practices, and rules.
Agile and Scrum Master Certification training course accredited by EXIN is ideal for software developers, project team members, team leads, architects, project managers, scrum team members, scrum managers, scrum masters, teams transitioning to scrum, and any one who is part of IT and project management teams working on projects.
To know more about Agile Scrum Master Certification training worldwide,
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The Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification is a credential offered by Scrum.org, a leading organization dedicated to promoting and advancing the principles and practices of Scrum. PSM I is one of the foundational certifications for Scrum Masters, validating an individual's understanding of Scrum principles, practices, and roles.
To earn the PSM I certification, candidates must demonstrate their knowledge of Scrum through an online assessment consisting of multiple-choice questions. The assessment covers various aspects of Scrum, including the Scrum framework, Scrum roles (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Development Team), Scrum events (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), and Scrum artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment).
The PSM I certification is designed for individuals who work in or aspire to work in roles such as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, or anyone involved in Agile software development projects. It is suitable for professionals from diverse backgrounds, including software development, project management, product management, and quality assurance.
Achieving the PSM I certification demonstrates a solid understanding of Scrum principles and practices, as well as a commitment to ongoing learning and professional development in Agile methodologies. Certified PSM I professionals are equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively facilitate Scrum events, coach Scrum Teams, and promote continuous improvement within their organizations.
Wareness Training - Available Agile CertficationsChristine Aykac
Every organziation wants to move to agile and everyone wants to have Agile Certification? Do they really know what they want? If you want to learn about available agile related certifications, and differences between Agile and Scrum certifications. This presentation is for you More information, contact us.
This PMI–ACP Seminar will help you to understand and prepare you to take the PMI-ACP® exam and become an
Agile Certified Practitioner, a certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. The PMIACP
exam measures professionalism in Agile Project Management, increases versatility in PM
methods, validates ability to lead Agile teams and Agile software projects that adapt to change,
drive innovation and deliver on–time business value.
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Software refers to a set of instructions given to a computer for it to work. The process of creating, designing, deploying and supporting the software through a set of activities or strategic themes is called Software Development. This process involves a number of methodologies/frameworks/sub-process that helps to simplify the complex activities involved in creating a product.
Who are the certified scrum masters?
An expert recognized by the Scrum Alliance as a Scrum practitioner with the capacity to effectively lead project teams is referred to as a "Certified Scrum Master".
A Scrum Master is a servant leader who helps the team use the Scrum methodology; they are not a project manager or leader.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.