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Agile Transformation

Agile Transformation at WilliamHill Case Study

AgileSparks Provides a Successful Agile Transformation at William HillIndustryEntertainment, Betting, and GamingSolutionCross functional Product Dev cells, working in Scrum and KanbanResults

Productivity Increased – Moving from delivering 1 application per month to 10 in a quarter
Significant quality increase – Number of rollbacks reduced
A better starting point, focusing on unique developments that serve the business
Teams satisfaction increased

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Lean Agile Depth Assessment – Assessing your Agile Maturity

How to use:

Gather your team
Go through the scan and score what you are doing and what not.
Figure out what you want to try next that will improve your capabilities in the relevant direction.

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Elbit Agile/Scrum Agile Israel Case Study – Gil Ari

Continuous deployment is a process that encourages developers to push new code to production whenever they can. In this presentation, Itai will explain the principles of continuous deployment and will show how Outbrain can deploy code more than 20 times a day while serving recommendations to top publishers (including USA Today, iVillage, Boston.com, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, TheStreet, The Boston Globe, and Slate. Hebrew: Ynet, Haaretz, TheMarker, Globes, City mouse, JPost and more).

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Sustainable, Successful, and Repeatable – Elad Amit

Over the past couple of years, my colleagues and I have led dozens of implementations in a variety of companies. As we closed the second year of our company we began noticing the problems and costs incurred by the fact that we each worked differently. E.g. miscommunications, differences in outcomes, and rework done between implementations. We decided it was time we go and analyze our past implementations for common goals and methods of operation.

What Is Kanban?

Want to go Agile in an Agile way?Learn how Kanban is helping pragmatic organizations successfully achieve sustainable and sticky Agility without risky revolutions. What is

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Agile at FiftyOne – Ben Peer

Going Agile via the Fast Lane – How FiftyOne.com switched from quarterly releases to 2 weeks Scrum and Kanban.
Ben Peer shares the story of FiftyOne.com’s transition in the last year. Starting with Scrum, involving the whole team in true inspect and adapt, evolving to Kanban/ScrumBan, evolving team formation and definition of done, adding Agile Testing approaches including ATDD. In parallel, tight collaboration with a remote Product Management team, and usage of an electronic highly visual Kanban board. Ben will discuss the benefits, the challenges and how the team dealt with them, and will provide recommendations to others considering this journey.

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Agile Contracting Reading List

Agile Contracting Reading List Agile Outsourcing – Agile Contracts Best Practices InfoQ: Agile Fixed Price Contracting agile contracts primer.fm – agile_contracts_primer.pdf Target Cost Contracts |

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Agile Coaching Reading List

Agile Coaching Reading List Kate Oneal | xProgramming.com Navigating Conflict on Agile Teams: Why “Resolving” Conflict Won’t Work Resources to Build Agile Coaching Competency |

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Values, Principles, and Practices

The concept of process improvement has been around for quite a while. Many methods have been defined to conduct and pursue improvement. Then why isn’t everyone already an expert at it? We seem to never lack “improvement” content as if it’s fresh, and exciting-which it’s not. Maybe that’s because so much of what’s been espoused hasn’t worked. But why? Hillel Glazer examines several long-held assumptions about process improvement, proposes plausible flaws, and reveals new levels of understanding that have allowed breakthroughs in performance. Hillel looks at what happens when there’s too much focus on practices, when the underlying principles aren’t honored, and when basic values aren’t internalized. We see too much arguing over practices instead of working towards results; worrying about “compliance” instead of moving forward. What’s the relationship between values, principles, and practices, and why does it matter? Hillel explains it all in this compelling, entertaining session.