Agile Practices Toolkit

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Identify Agile Practices: partner with internal and external entities to develop marketing collateral to be used in customer facing interactions.

More Uses of the Agile Practices Toolkit:

  • Improve teams adoption of Agile Practices by increasing Team Collaboration, innovation and Continuous Improvement.

  • Facilitate progress toward delivery goals using Agile Practices and other delivery methodologies and coordinate with other non agile teams involved in the effort.

  • Provide technical and architectural guidance towards the Automation Solution that supports Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Agile Practices.

  • Ensure you specify; build and maintain the right team to deliver the program/track in Agile ways for working.

  • Confirm your venture complies; as Scrum Master or Kanban facilitator, partners with management and Project Team members to ensure the environment is conducive to agility and the teams are able to follow the Agile values and principles.

  • Control Agile Practices: work in an Agile team as the point person for software quality in creating Test Plans and cases.

  • Develop an analysis to determine the current Agile and DevSecOps readiness, current SDLC practices and Project Management methods with the customer to determine the scope of transformation activities needed to become fully Agile.

  • Guide Agile Practices: Agile based, Design Thinking, user centric, empirical projects that accelerate results.

  • Accelerate the shift to a rapid Content Development strategy by leveraging Agile Development methods.

  • Confirm your organization stays abreast of Industry Trends and understands the direction of applicable Technology Support capabilities and ensures technology environment is agile enough to change quickly to support.

  • Be accountable for operating at pace and Agile Decision Making using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.

  • Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in Full Stack development tools and technologies.

  • Follow development Best Practices and Agile processes, as Unit Testing code and participating in Code Review.

  • Control Agile Practices: champion and implement engineering Best Practices, specifically with Agile Development methodologies and Project Planning, estimation and tracking.

  • Organize Agile Practices: category Agile, Agile transformation, Product Support, digital technology, Product Owner.

  • Establish that your organization its up to Agile IT to express the right path forward that often requires challenging the customer to further transform business.

  • Lead Agile, Scaled Agile Framework safe team ceremonies daily stand up, Planning Sessions, etc.

  • Oversee Agile Practices: agile it is your organization built around the cloud and offers a variety of Cloud Solutions for your customers.

  • Ensure you involve; lead multiple projects that are executed and managed in an Agile environment.

  • Establish that your organization complies; requirements quality, Architecture And Design document quality, unit/functional Automated Test coverage, development yield (velocity/quality), Agile maturity.

  • Orchestrate Agile Practices: champion and implement engineering Best Practices, specifically with Agile Development methodology (prefer scrum) and Project Planning, estimation and tracking.

  • Employ rigorous Continuous Delivery practices managed under an Agile Software Development approach.

  • Collaborate closely with revenue leaders and Service Delivery Vertical leaders to drive Continuous Improvement and scale the Customer Service function by automating service functions in the app along with operating an Agile customer Contact Center.

  • Serve as a lead development or Team Lead of a small remote or offshore team leveraging Agile based principles to deliver error free technology components.

  • Be accountable for communicating effectively with Business Analysts, other Software Engineers using the Agile Methodology.

  • Collaborate and contribute in international, multi site development in an Agile environment.

  • Methodize Agile Practices: Agile Software Development using jira for tracking issues and resolutions.

  • Be accountable for working across all phases of the agile and waterfall project delivery and Software Development lifecycle (sdlc) for the design, development, testing and implementation of salesforce.

  • Perform manual exploratory and acceptance testing of new features being iteratively developed as part of Agile Development methodology.

  • Systematize Agile Practices: conduct design and Code Review to ensure code developed meets or exceeds coding Best Practices guidelines, Unit Testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.

  • Ensure you reconcile; build and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines for your existing cloud applications.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Agile Practices Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Agile Practices related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Agile Practices specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Agile Practices Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Agile Practices improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. How do controls support value?

  2. How do you keep the momentum going?

  3. What are the requirements for audit information?

  4. What are the personnel training and qualifications required?

  5. Risk identification: what are the possible Risk Events your organization faces in relation to Agile Practices?

  6. Why is this needed?

  7. What kind of analytics data will be gathered?

  8. Are the Agile Practices standards challenging?

  9. How do you verify and validate the Agile Practices data?

  10. How do senior leaders actions reflect a commitment to the organizations Agile Practices values?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Agile Practices book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Agile Practices self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Agile Practices Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Agile Practices areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Agile Practices Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Agile Practices projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Agile Practices Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Agile Practices project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Agile Practices project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Agile Practices Project Team have enough people to execute the Agile Practices Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Agile Practices Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Agile Practices Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Agile Practices project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Agile Practices project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Agile Practices project with this in-depth Agile Practices Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Agile Practices projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Agile Practices and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Agile Practices investments work better.

This Agile Practices All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.