Test-Driven Value Propositions: Using Lean Startup practices to define better customer value

There are a lot of tools and practices that help Agile teams deliver value, but how do we identify the right value in the first place? Product Owners have the difficult job of representing the customers and making assumptions of what they want. These assumptions end up in a backlog and incremental delivery helps us […]

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Agility – Beyond Software Development

Apply the Agile Manifesto, Principles and frameworks as a business stategy to compete in a disruptive world. Agility is agnostic to the work it is applied to. Real experiences from new product development, marketing, sales, legal and business operations leveraging agility to understand the customer, get to market quicker and increase productivity. Use ability to […]

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Building Street Cred: LEANing the PMO

How does the PMO best enable the organization to become more lean and agile? Simple, do it themselves.  Learn-Apply-Reflect is the Lean matra at Hallmark and the PSO has embraced it wholeheartedly as we bravely move into a “bimodal” world.  Ok…maybe not so bravely…we didn’t get the WIFFM.  Instead, I got the question…”We’re not software […]

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