This seminar was presented to a group of IT and Business managers and executives on the topic of how to use Agile and Lean methods to stay ahead in the current economic conditions.
Contact me if you would like this presented for your organization.
sally@agiletransformation.com
Yes, both of them are buzz words, but when you peel back the buzz, what is the true value that lies behind both of these methods? How do they compare and how do they differ? Most importantly, how can we bring about Agility to SOA projects and how can better architecture be applied to Agile projects? Me and Kyle also discussed some of the challenges with attempting iterative development on SOA projects and provided some ways both can leverage each other's strengths.
Want this seminar presented at YOUR organization? just email sally@agiletransformation.com
www.AgileTransformation.com
Top Ways Agile Adoption Fails, How to Avoid Them!Sally Elatta
This was a webinar I offered to discuss real world reasons behind Agile adoption failure and the success factors for avoiding them. You can watch the video of the webinar here:
Real World Effective/Agile Requirements - IBM Innovate 2010 -sally elattaSally Elatta
This is the presentation I offered at the IBM 2010 conference around real world techniques and best practices for effective requirements gathering and release planning. Enjoy!
What is 'Just Enough' Documentation in Agile?Sally Elatta
There are lots of misconceptions around what Agile says about documentation. One is that Agile has NO Documentation! That brings a smile to a few folks and drives others (like me) crazy! If you’ve read anything about Agile, you’ll hear that what it really preaches is ‘Just In Time’ or ‘Just Enough’ documentation. So what does that mean? Why aim for ‘Just Enough’ and not ‘Perfect’ Documentation? This seminar was presented at the IIBA group.
Want this seminar presented at YOUR organization? just email sally@agiletransformation.com
Overview of Agile for Business AnalystsSally Elatta
This seminar was presented to the IIBA Omaha group. My goal was to provide a quick overview of Agile and then dive into the role and skills needed for a BA on an Agile team. Let me know if you would like me to present this or a similar topic at your organization. sally@agiletransformation.com
This document discusses how Agile principles and practices can support ITIL frameworks. It advocates that development adopt Agile methods fully through automation, customer involvement, and focus on quality. It also stresses the importance of operations participating in development and allowing frequent changes. Adopting these approaches can improve service quality, reduce risks, and foster collaboration between teams. The document provides advice such as implementing process changes incrementally and ensuring both process owners and managers are involved.
The document discusses enterprise agility and provides four case studies of organizations adopting agile practices using different patterns: Little Footprint, Big Footprint, Pillar, and Osmosis. It describes each case study in terms of the organization, mandate, lessons learned, level of agility achieved, and compares the different patterns. The conclusion recommends beginning the adoption of agility by focusing on being agile through practices like poly-skilled teams, continuous delivery, activist investing, and customized training.
The document discusses smart metrics for agile projects. It recommends choosing leading metrics like features accepted, sponsor confidence, and user satisfaction that are simple, self-generating, relevant to goals, and future-focused. Lagging metrics like lines of code are not as useful. Metrics should influence positive behaviors by leveraging the Hawthorne Effect. Feature tracking and cycle times are presented as examples of smart metrics that provide visibility into progress and bottlenecks.
Yes, both of them are buzz words, but when you peel back the buzz, what is the true value that lies behind both of these methods? How do they compare and how do they differ? Most importantly, how can we bring about Agility to SOA projects and how can better architecture be applied to Agile projects? Me and Kyle also discussed some of the challenges with attempting iterative development on SOA projects and provided some ways both can leverage each other's strengths.
Want this seminar presented at YOUR organization? just email sally@agiletransformation.com
www.AgileTransformation.com
Top Ways Agile Adoption Fails, How to Avoid Them!Sally Elatta
This was a webinar I offered to discuss real world reasons behind Agile adoption failure and the success factors for avoiding them. You can watch the video of the webinar here:
Real World Effective/Agile Requirements - IBM Innovate 2010 -sally elattaSally Elatta
This is the presentation I offered at the IBM 2010 conference around real world techniques and best practices for effective requirements gathering and release planning. Enjoy!
What is 'Just Enough' Documentation in Agile?Sally Elatta
There are lots of misconceptions around what Agile says about documentation. One is that Agile has NO Documentation! That brings a smile to a few folks and drives others (like me) crazy! If you’ve read anything about Agile, you’ll hear that what it really preaches is ‘Just In Time’ or ‘Just Enough’ documentation. So what does that mean? Why aim for ‘Just Enough’ and not ‘Perfect’ Documentation? This seminar was presented at the IIBA group.
Want this seminar presented at YOUR organization? just email sally@agiletransformation.com
Overview of Agile for Business AnalystsSally Elatta
This seminar was presented to the IIBA Omaha group. My goal was to provide a quick overview of Agile and then dive into the role and skills needed for a BA on an Agile team. Let me know if you would like me to present this or a similar topic at your organization. sally@agiletransformation.com
This document discusses how Agile principles and practices can support ITIL frameworks. It advocates that development adopt Agile methods fully through automation, customer involvement, and focus on quality. It also stresses the importance of operations participating in development and allowing frequent changes. Adopting these approaches can improve service quality, reduce risks, and foster collaboration between teams. The document provides advice such as implementing process changes incrementally and ensuring both process owners and managers are involved.
The document discusses enterprise agility and provides four case studies of organizations adopting agile practices using different patterns: Little Footprint, Big Footprint, Pillar, and Osmosis. It describes each case study in terms of the organization, mandate, lessons learned, level of agility achieved, and compares the different patterns. The conclusion recommends beginning the adoption of agility by focusing on being agile through practices like poly-skilled teams, continuous delivery, activist investing, and customized training.
The document discusses smart metrics for agile projects. It recommends choosing leading metrics like features accepted, sponsor confidence, and user satisfaction that are simple, self-generating, relevant to goals, and future-focused. Lagging metrics like lines of code are not as useful. Metrics should influence positive behaviors by leveraging the Hawthorne Effect. Feature tracking and cycle times are presented as examples of smart metrics that provide visibility into progress and bottlenecks.
One of the values of the Agile manifesto is working software over comprehensive documentation. However many agile teams think that now we are Agile we don’t need to document. Come to this session to learn about lightweight documentation and how to strike a sensible balance between working software and documentation. Learn which documents are necessary and which documents you can do without as well. Learn about JIT lightweight alternatives to our tradition documentation set. Leave with specific techniques to evaluate the value of each document along with recommended alternatives.
Proposed Title Fear and Loathing in Agility: Long Live the Accounting Departm...Laszlo Szalvay
"A dead ScrumMaster is a useless ScrumMaster,” echo the votary of Ken Schwaber (Co-Founder of Scrum) folklore. In this session hosted by Pat Reed (Agile Alliance Board Member) and Laszlo Szalvay (Executive at SolutionsIQ) we will explore how and why the accounting department needs to be your biggest champion as you embark on your next agile transformation. Pat and Laszlo will walk through concrete steps and real world examples of how capitalization works with Scrum and what you need to tell the accountants so they don’t shoot you.
So don’t end up a dead ScrumMaster.
Rachel Davies gave a presentation on surfing the agile wave. She introduced herself and asked attendees about their experience with agile. Her presentation covered why companies are attracted to agile, how to get started with pilot projects, common mistakes like rushing in or only implementing certain parts of agile, and how agile affects many areas of a company. She discussed agile values from the manifesto and principles like prioritizing customer satisfaction and frequent delivery. The presentation concluded with suggestions on what support is needed for successful agile adoption, like improving build pipelines, empowering teams, and being patient as change takes time.
A showcase of gritty, warts-and-all stories about the transformation toward agility of some of Australia’s biggest companies.
From IIT Academy, Hong Kong - meetup.com/IITAcademyHK
· Learn about how a critical government data organisation achieved a 240%+ increase in productivity in just six weeks.
· Hear about the market transforming mobile payments app that reinvigorated one of Australia’s big four banks. Challenges involved resistance from the organisation from line staff through to senior sponsors.
· Hear about how a multi-year flagship project at one of Australia’s major home loan providers was rescued. Out of budget and under-featured, this project was reinvigorated in just 6 months. Complexities included offshore vendors, major time-differences in operations and multiple vendors involved in a complex build.
The document discusses enterprise architecture (EA) and how it can be approached in an agile manner. It provides definitions of EA, describes what EA teams typically produce. It also shares results from surveys that show many organizations have both EA programs and agile projects, but there is often a disconnect between the two. The document argues that a more disciplined and flexible approach to EA, such as the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework, can help bridge the gap between EA and agility.
Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile Transformation Strategy - China 2012 Laszlo Szalvay
This is a seminar I gave throughout China the week of Oct 29th 2012. It covers the topics of Agile Software Development (Scrum, Lean, XP) and the new framework of Enterprise Cloud Development that CollabNet has been socializing. Please contact me for similar private talks at your company.
Lean UX presented by Fabio Armani at the Bettersoftware 2012 Conference in september 2012.
Cosa è Lean UX?
User Centered Design x Lean Startup (Customer Development + approcci Lean & Agile).
Per la prima volta, i metodi User Centered Design hanno il dovuto slancio nel mondo degli affari.
Quando la comunità imprenditoriale comincia a misurare il valore dell'esperienza dell'utente, è il momento in cui essa investe su questo importante aspetto come un driver di valore, piuttosto che come un costo da minimizzare.
Quando la scienza del Lean Startup include lo "user centered design" come uno dei suoi attrattori principali, noi progettisti abbiamo una nuova opportunità di fare grandi cose.
In questo talk vorrei parlare dell'importanza del movimento Lean UX e di come questo possa condurre alla realizzazione di un team integrato che superi il semplice concetto di Product Owner, andando a definire un più vasto concetto di Product Ownership.
Oltre alla trattazione teorica dei concetti fondamentali, verranno forniti esempi tratti dalle mie molteplici esperienze di Coaching e Consulting in diversi contesti con aziende di medie e grandi dimensioni.
Simplicity (Agile Tour 2011 China) - Bill Liguobiao_li
This presentation was delivered by me in Agile Tour 2011 in total of 4 cities' events. It is on the topic of "Simplicity" and related Agile mindset and practices.
A summary of our agility services, alongside key case studies. For further information, please see industrieit.com. To speak directly with our Director of Agility, please email steven.ma@industrieit.com.
This document provides an overview of Lean and Agile concepts from Innovel LLC. It discusses Lean as a way to minimize waste and maximize value delivery to customers. Agile is described as an approach for incremental delivery of products and services that minimizes risk. Scrum is presented as a project management framework for incremental delivery. The relationship between Lean, Agile and Scrum is explored, and examples of companies using these approaches are provided. Key Lean concepts like value streams, forms of waste and continuous improvement are summarized.
CMMI and Agile both aim to improve software development processes, but have some differences. CMMI focuses on standardizing processes across an organization, while Agile prioritizes individuals, working software, and responding to change. Many organizations have embraced elements of both to standardized processes while maintaining flexibility. The document discusses case studies of organizations like Adobe and the US government that have transformed by adopting Agile principles. It also outlines the characteristics and benefits of iterative development used in Agile.
The enterprise architecture group responded to business pressures by proposing a new technology-enabled business platform. However, initial plans focused too much on technology and lacked business alignment. This led to confusion and rising costs. The greatest IT problem was determined to be managing people's expectations. A new strategic approach was developed that focused on the business problem of enabling innovation. This included crafting a mission, vision, and goals and performing a gap analysis to better understand requirements.
My talk on agile software development at Philips Healthcare. In this talk, I was exploring how could heavily-regulated environments such as medical industry benefit from principles of agility.
In the world of agile, there is theory and then there is practice. We like to talk about self-organizing teams, asynchronous execution, BDD, TDD, and emergent architecture. We also talk about cross-functional teams: how analysts, testers, architects, technical writers, and UX designers belong on the same team, right next to programmers. It all sounds nice in theory, but how does this work in reality? What do these people actually do? How do they interact? What does it look like? Is there really a pragmatic way to make this work?
In this simulation, a cross-functional team will actually build a piece of software. Every specialist will have a hand in the process. Every specialist will also act as a generalist. Everyone will add value. And as a team, we’ll get something DONE.
This is your opportunity to see agile development in practice, and to bridge the gap between what agilists say and what teams do. And it’s not as new or as difficult as you think – affinity between testers, BA’s, coders, and other team members has really been at the root of effective development practices all along. Let’s just finally acknowledge that it works, demonstrate its capabilities, and encourage it going forward.
This IS agile development.
The document presents a 10 step model for agile requirements that includes defining the objective, stakeholders, vision, roles, personas, user stories, acceptance tests, development, delivery, and checking the delivered value. It argues that there is more to requirements than just user stories and that projects should either take a "salami slice" or goal-directed agile approach. The model is intended to provide insights and ideas for linking together all aspects of agile requirements.
An overview of the current state of Scrum, as well as some major challenges that will determine the future state of Scrum.
This is presented from the perspective of Capgemini, knowing that it is in line with the Scrum communities. Included is the current offering of Scrum trainings by Capgemini.
The document provides an overview of Agile software development. It defines Agile as a collection of principles and practices aimed at improving collaboration, reducing documentation overhead, and making development teams more responsive to changes. The document discusses Agile methods like Scrum and Extreme Programming. It also covers Agile concepts such as user stories, velocity, and retrospectives. The document aims to help attendees understand what Agile is, its benefits, and how it differs from traditional waterfall methods. Training and certification options in Agile are also listed.
This document discusses agile documentation practices based on a survey of 57 Symantec information developers. Some key findings include:
- Most information developers have less than one year of agile experience and see benefits of agile like improved schedules and delivering value.
- Frequent deployment and reviews have improved documentation quality by focusing on smaller chunks of work. Remote collaboration remains a challenge.
- Agile practices like daily stand-ups, estimating tasks, and transparent reporting increase motivation and accountability for documentation work.
- Strategies like cross-training, defining "done", tailoring stories to the organization, and using technology help information developers adapt to agile.
This PPT will provide details about our organization, Cygnet Infotech Pvt Ltd like what we do, who we are, how we do, how can we help you etc. You can get in touch with us any time for any assistance.
The Nature's Pride Way - Implementing Lean Bottom-upRobert Jonkers
A practical and people oriented approach for implementing Lean. Crafting a sustainable journey to ensure that every change and improvement will stick. At the end it will result in a continuous improvement engine on all levels of the organisation.
The presentation was gives at the anual LeanSixSigmaPartners event 2014.
One of the values of the Agile manifesto is working software over comprehensive documentation. However many agile teams think that now we are Agile we don’t need to document. Come to this session to learn about lightweight documentation and how to strike a sensible balance between working software and documentation. Learn which documents are necessary and which documents you can do without as well. Learn about JIT lightweight alternatives to our tradition documentation set. Leave with specific techniques to evaluate the value of each document along with recommended alternatives.
Proposed Title Fear and Loathing in Agility: Long Live the Accounting Departm...Laszlo Szalvay
"A dead ScrumMaster is a useless ScrumMaster,” echo the votary of Ken Schwaber (Co-Founder of Scrum) folklore. In this session hosted by Pat Reed (Agile Alliance Board Member) and Laszlo Szalvay (Executive at SolutionsIQ) we will explore how and why the accounting department needs to be your biggest champion as you embark on your next agile transformation. Pat and Laszlo will walk through concrete steps and real world examples of how capitalization works with Scrum and what you need to tell the accountants so they don’t shoot you.
So don’t end up a dead ScrumMaster.
Rachel Davies gave a presentation on surfing the agile wave. She introduced herself and asked attendees about their experience with agile. Her presentation covered why companies are attracted to agile, how to get started with pilot projects, common mistakes like rushing in or only implementing certain parts of agile, and how agile affects many areas of a company. She discussed agile values from the manifesto and principles like prioritizing customer satisfaction and frequent delivery. The presentation concluded with suggestions on what support is needed for successful agile adoption, like improving build pipelines, empowering teams, and being patient as change takes time.
A showcase of gritty, warts-and-all stories about the transformation toward agility of some of Australia’s biggest companies.
From IIT Academy, Hong Kong - meetup.com/IITAcademyHK
· Learn about how a critical government data organisation achieved a 240%+ increase in productivity in just six weeks.
· Hear about the market transforming mobile payments app that reinvigorated one of Australia’s big four banks. Challenges involved resistance from the organisation from line staff through to senior sponsors.
· Hear about how a multi-year flagship project at one of Australia’s major home loan providers was rescued. Out of budget and under-featured, this project was reinvigorated in just 6 months. Complexities included offshore vendors, major time-differences in operations and multiple vendors involved in a complex build.
The document discusses enterprise architecture (EA) and how it can be approached in an agile manner. It provides definitions of EA, describes what EA teams typically produce. It also shares results from surveys that show many organizations have both EA programs and agile projects, but there is often a disconnect between the two. The document argues that a more disciplined and flexible approach to EA, such as the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework, can help bridge the gap between EA and agility.
Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile Transformation Strategy - China 2012 Laszlo Szalvay
This is a seminar I gave throughout China the week of Oct 29th 2012. It covers the topics of Agile Software Development (Scrum, Lean, XP) and the new framework of Enterprise Cloud Development that CollabNet has been socializing. Please contact me for similar private talks at your company.
Lean UX presented by Fabio Armani at the Bettersoftware 2012 Conference in september 2012.
Cosa è Lean UX?
User Centered Design x Lean Startup (Customer Development + approcci Lean & Agile).
Per la prima volta, i metodi User Centered Design hanno il dovuto slancio nel mondo degli affari.
Quando la comunità imprenditoriale comincia a misurare il valore dell'esperienza dell'utente, è il momento in cui essa investe su questo importante aspetto come un driver di valore, piuttosto che come un costo da minimizzare.
Quando la scienza del Lean Startup include lo "user centered design" come uno dei suoi attrattori principali, noi progettisti abbiamo una nuova opportunità di fare grandi cose.
In questo talk vorrei parlare dell'importanza del movimento Lean UX e di come questo possa condurre alla realizzazione di un team integrato che superi il semplice concetto di Product Owner, andando a definire un più vasto concetto di Product Ownership.
Oltre alla trattazione teorica dei concetti fondamentali, verranno forniti esempi tratti dalle mie molteplici esperienze di Coaching e Consulting in diversi contesti con aziende di medie e grandi dimensioni.
Simplicity (Agile Tour 2011 China) - Bill Liguobiao_li
This presentation was delivered by me in Agile Tour 2011 in total of 4 cities' events. It is on the topic of "Simplicity" and related Agile mindset and practices.
A summary of our agility services, alongside key case studies. For further information, please see industrieit.com. To speak directly with our Director of Agility, please email steven.ma@industrieit.com.
This document provides an overview of Lean and Agile concepts from Innovel LLC. It discusses Lean as a way to minimize waste and maximize value delivery to customers. Agile is described as an approach for incremental delivery of products and services that minimizes risk. Scrum is presented as a project management framework for incremental delivery. The relationship between Lean, Agile and Scrum is explored, and examples of companies using these approaches are provided. Key Lean concepts like value streams, forms of waste and continuous improvement are summarized.
CMMI and Agile both aim to improve software development processes, but have some differences. CMMI focuses on standardizing processes across an organization, while Agile prioritizes individuals, working software, and responding to change. Many organizations have embraced elements of both to standardized processes while maintaining flexibility. The document discusses case studies of organizations like Adobe and the US government that have transformed by adopting Agile principles. It also outlines the characteristics and benefits of iterative development used in Agile.
The enterprise architecture group responded to business pressures by proposing a new technology-enabled business platform. However, initial plans focused too much on technology and lacked business alignment. This led to confusion and rising costs. The greatest IT problem was determined to be managing people's expectations. A new strategic approach was developed that focused on the business problem of enabling innovation. This included crafting a mission, vision, and goals and performing a gap analysis to better understand requirements.
My talk on agile software development at Philips Healthcare. In this talk, I was exploring how could heavily-regulated environments such as medical industry benefit from principles of agility.
In the world of agile, there is theory and then there is practice. We like to talk about self-organizing teams, asynchronous execution, BDD, TDD, and emergent architecture. We also talk about cross-functional teams: how analysts, testers, architects, technical writers, and UX designers belong on the same team, right next to programmers. It all sounds nice in theory, but how does this work in reality? What do these people actually do? How do they interact? What does it look like? Is there really a pragmatic way to make this work?
In this simulation, a cross-functional team will actually build a piece of software. Every specialist will have a hand in the process. Every specialist will also act as a generalist. Everyone will add value. And as a team, we’ll get something DONE.
This is your opportunity to see agile development in practice, and to bridge the gap between what agilists say and what teams do. And it’s not as new or as difficult as you think – affinity between testers, BA’s, coders, and other team members has really been at the root of effective development practices all along. Let’s just finally acknowledge that it works, demonstrate its capabilities, and encourage it going forward.
This IS agile development.
The document presents a 10 step model for agile requirements that includes defining the objective, stakeholders, vision, roles, personas, user stories, acceptance tests, development, delivery, and checking the delivered value. It argues that there is more to requirements than just user stories and that projects should either take a "salami slice" or goal-directed agile approach. The model is intended to provide insights and ideas for linking together all aspects of agile requirements.
An overview of the current state of Scrum, as well as some major challenges that will determine the future state of Scrum.
This is presented from the perspective of Capgemini, knowing that it is in line with the Scrum communities. Included is the current offering of Scrum trainings by Capgemini.
The document provides an overview of Agile software development. It defines Agile as a collection of principles and practices aimed at improving collaboration, reducing documentation overhead, and making development teams more responsive to changes. The document discusses Agile methods like Scrum and Extreme Programming. It also covers Agile concepts such as user stories, velocity, and retrospectives. The document aims to help attendees understand what Agile is, its benefits, and how it differs from traditional waterfall methods. Training and certification options in Agile are also listed.
This document discusses agile documentation practices based on a survey of 57 Symantec information developers. Some key findings include:
- Most information developers have less than one year of agile experience and see benefits of agile like improved schedules and delivering value.
- Frequent deployment and reviews have improved documentation quality by focusing on smaller chunks of work. Remote collaboration remains a challenge.
- Agile practices like daily stand-ups, estimating tasks, and transparent reporting increase motivation and accountability for documentation work.
- Strategies like cross-training, defining "done", tailoring stories to the organization, and using technology help information developers adapt to agile.
This PPT will provide details about our organization, Cygnet Infotech Pvt Ltd like what we do, who we are, how we do, how can we help you etc. You can get in touch with us any time for any assistance.
The Nature's Pride Way - Implementing Lean Bottom-upRobert Jonkers
A practical and people oriented approach for implementing Lean. Crafting a sustainable journey to ensure that every change and improvement will stick. At the end it will result in a continuous improvement engine on all levels of the organisation.
The presentation was gives at the anual LeanSixSigmaPartners event 2014.
Scrum planning poker, principles of the gameSid Dane
Planning poker is a consensus-based technique for estimating effort or relative size of development tasks. It involves the following key principles:
1. Accept uncertainty in software projects and use relative story point estimates rather than precise hours to account for intangible factors.
2. Estimates are derived through group discussion where estimators must justify their cards, leading to more accurate estimates that factor in an average of individual views.
3. The document outlines seven principles for effective planning poker, including keeping estimates at a granular level, focusing only on the current sprint without long-term planning, using a question mark card when more information is needed, and being willing to finalize estimates when consensus is reached.
Probabilistic project sizing using Randomized Branch Sampling (RBS)Dimitar Bakardzhiev
Analyzing all the stories in a project requires significant time and it can easily happen that great part of this effort will be pure waste. Priorities of features change and some features would not be developed at all. The question many of us in software development try to answer is - how can we estimate the size of a project without prior identification and analysis of every single user story? The answer is needed for portfolio related decisions, quotations on prospect projects etc.
You want to estimate the size of your project but you don't want to analyze all user stories in it? Try Randomized Branch Sampling!
Planning Poker is a technique used to estimate effort for tasks in Agile software development. It involves each team member privately selecting a planning poker card representing their estimate for a task. The cards have Fibonacci numbers written on them. The cards are then revealed and discussed if estimates differ, until consensus is reached. Once estimates are established, the team's velocity (amount of work completed per sprint) can be used to predict future release dates. Planning Poker works well because it leverages the wisdom of crowds and averages individual estimates for more accurate results.
An introduction to agile estimation and release planningJames Whitehead
The document provides an introduction to agile estimation and release planning. It discusses building a product backlog by creating user stories, estimating each story using complexity buckets and points, and ensuring user stories meet INVEST criteria. It also covers splitting large user stories, acceptance criteria, and ensuring the product backlog is DEEP by being detailed, estimated, emergent, and prioritized. Estimation techniques include relative sizing to other stories and complexity buckets for different aspects like user interface, business logic, etc. The document emphasizes that estimation is about relative size rather than fixed timelines and that consistency is more important than absolute accuracy.
Consulting Overview for Sales Implementation TeamJudy Hogan
I prepared this presentation for a group of sales implementation professionals who were transforming their function from project management to client consulting.
Lean at Cisco: Lessons Learned from Lean Product Development and Lean StartupKen Power
Slide deck from my talk on Lean at Cisco: Lessons Learned from Lean Product Development and Lean Startup.
The 3 lessons I talk about are:
1. Reduce Batch Sizes and Manage WIP Limits
2. Customer Development
3. Learn to see Waste
I gave this talk at the Clayton Hotel on June 21 2012, at a Lean Startup Event organized by Enterprise Ireland and ITAG.
Frost Consultant Group is an IT and business advisory services firm based in Allen, Texas that provides confidential consulting services to help clients solve problems and unlock value. The firm has three business units and focuses on providing C-level advisory services, business consulting, and technology consulting to both large and small clients across North America. Frost Consultant Group aims to fill the gap between a client's existing staff and larger consulting organizations by taking a collaborative, problem-solving approach.
This is a presentation made to Surge Accelerator in Houston in March 2013. This serves as a Guide to Early Stage Technology Companies, building enterprise class software.
This covers the typical lifecycle of a software start-up, fundamentals of Agile software development, and some do's and don't for how to build successful software companies.
Lessons Learned: Creating Software as a Service from ScratchSVPMA
Starting from Scratch? Lessons Learned From Trying to Create Software as a Service at SAP by Mike Tschudy at SVPMA Monthly Event February 2012
Go to link below for notes from this event http://svpma.org/2012/02/february-2012-event/
This document discusses bringing agile practices to a multinational enterprise. It begins by describing single team, co-located, and distributed agile. It then characterizes a traditional multinational as valuing upfront planning and signoffs over flexibility. Bringing agile to such an enterprise requires focusing on changing people's mindsets through patience, relationships, communication, and training rather than focusing on mechanics. The benefits are large but it is a long journey that requires support from senior leaders and celebrating small successes along the way.
Agile Development Product Delivery For Successful OrganizationsMarc Crudgington, MBA
This document provides an overview of agile development and product delivery methods for successful organizations. It includes an interactive agenda covering topics such as agile frameworks versus processes, common agile methodologies like Scrum, planning and estimating, principles of agile development, adopting agile practices, and potential impediments to agile adoption.
This document provides an overview of applying Lean principles to transform services organizations. It discusses how Lean was applied to improve processes at Manitoba Immigration, focusing on registration, assessment, and employment solutions. The key aspects covered include reviewing Lean principles from both a production and customer viewpoint, taking a people-focused approach, and using tools like value stream mapping to eliminate waste and improve flow. Successful transformation requires executive commitment, employee engagement, and rigorous execution.
Congress 2012: Enterprise Cloud Adoption – an Evolution from Infrastructure ...eurocloud
The document discusses enterprise cloud adoption trends. It notes that 57% of enterprises use SaaS and 38% have adopted PaaS. Common applications migrated to the cloud include test/development, disaster recovery, email/collaboration, and analytics. Enterprises seek the cloud's flexible infrastructure and ability to bring products to market quicker. While cloud adoption is increasing, IT departments struggle with legacy systems and a lack of resources and agility. The cloud offers opportunities to focus more on information and using data for innovation.
Developing and Delivering Products in an Agile World (.75 PMI PDU)DCsteve
Customers expect delivery of your new products quicker and easier than ever before. Whether your customers are internal or external, they expect you to develop new products with increased frequency and to put those products in their hands seamlessly and automatically.
Learn how you can take advantage of Agile development methods to develop and ship quicker while maintaining the project and financial management your business requires. And, learn ways to automate your product delivery to get these products to your customers immediately upon completion. Bring automation and Agile development together to deliver new products to your customers more often and easier than ever before.
All attendees are eligible for .75 PDU Credit from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Get the Transformational Story of Going Agile @ http://digitalcelerity.com/Pages.aspx/Agile-PPM
The document outlines steps for optimizing product management. It discusses assessing people skills and roles, establishing lightweight processes tailored to context, using appropriate tools, and maintaining changes over time. The overall goal is to clarify responsibilities, communicate expectations, eliminate inefficiencies, and continuously improve product management practices. Additional resources from 280 Group are provided for templates, white papers, blogs, and networking.
Agile development poses several challenges to effectively testing software. Many myths have become "common wisdom" about how testing is much more difficult, even impossible, in an agile environment. Aricent's software testing experts look at 7 of these myths, and based on their years of experience debunk them.
Amazing Winter Keynote - IT as a Team SportPaul Muller
This document discusses how IT organizations can stay relevant in a world of multi-sourcing by managing metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). It emphasizes the importance of executing systematically using strategy, planning and governance. It also stresses the need for security intelligence and risk management to securely operate proactively. Finally, it discusses how the right tools are needed for continuous integration and delivery to help organizations build faster.
Shaking the Box: Creating Indelible Organizational Change kirkholmes11
How do you drive organizational change when massive cultural change is needed? This presentation includes examples of techniques and approaches based on an 8 step model created by J.P. Kotter. This model is very useful for best practices implementations like ITIL or CMMI, process process improvement, quality programs, performance management, reducing costs, and improving competitiveness.
In this session presented at Tools4AgileTeams 2-12-2021, we discussed some necessary building blocks to make the critical changes associated with an agile transformation helping to de-risk the organization's agile journey.
Undaunted: How Credit Unions Can Thrive in the New Financial Services Environ...NAFCU Services Corporation
The credit union industry is being reshaped by numerous outside forces and challenges. How can we thrive? In order to answer that question, the 2011 Deluxe Collaborative focused their research on understanding what consumers think and feel about their financial institution, regulations, products and process. The researchers discovered that in order to survive- and thrive- organizations need to challenge five things. Learn those five things you should be thinking about and learn to thrive! More info at: www.nafcu.org/deluxe
The Business Analysts Role in Agile Software Developmentallan kelly
The document discusses the role of business analysts in agile software development. It argues that the product owner role is often filled by a business analyst. While business analysts take a backseat in early agile adoption, their role becomes more important as teams become more effective in delivering business needs. Specifically, business analysts are key to reducing unnecessary work through improved analysis and requirements. The document recommends a ratio of one business analyst for every 3-7 developers, depending on how stable the product is and how rapidly requirements change.
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Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
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