Agile BM 301 Enterprise-level Agile Business Management

Explore enterprise level agile challenges, including customer participation, distributed teams, upfront architecture, complex requirements, coordinated releases, and portfolio governance, with emphasis on enterprise frameworks.

Learn how enterprise-scale agile reinterprets manifesto values like individuals and interactions, working software, and change, balancing coordination, tools, documentation, and governance to deliver real business value.

Explore enterprise level project governance that blends agile adaptivity with control to align multiple teams and business objectives, using Lean Startup concepts, portfolio management, and hybrid approaches.

Explore how a PMO adapts in an agile environment, shifting from control to facilitation, aligning portfolio management, progress tracking, methodologies, and resource planning with self-organizing teams and a product owner.

Explore an agile enterprise governance model with hybrid planning, multi-level oversight, and clear product owner and product manager roles to restore project predictability.

Explore scaling scrum for large, multi-team projects by examining models like scrum of scrums, large scale scrum, less nexus, and scrum at scale, while balancing development and business integration.

Scale scrum to multi-team projects using the scrum of scrums, a brief, representative-led coordination method focused on team progress, impediments, and inter-team dependencies, not a full project management solution.

Explore large scale scrum (less) as a scalable, customer-focused framework applying scrum principles to multiple teams with a single product backlog and joint planning and reviews.

Explore the LeSS Huge framework for scaling Scrum beyond eight teams, featuring area product owners, area backlogs, and synchronized sprints within requirements areas under one overall product owner.

Explore the Nexus framework for scaling scrum, featuring the Nexus integration team, a shared product backlog, and coordinated multi-team sprints to deliver integrated increments.

Explore Scrum at scale and Nexus for enterprise projects, detailing the product owner cycle and scrum master cycle, scrum of scrums, and the executive action team's coordination of a backlog.

Explores a large scale scrum case from Agfa Healthcare, detailing an enterprise backlog of 800 items, 21 areas, and 400 developers across five sites, with synchronized two-week time boxes.

Explore enterprise-level agile frameworks, compare disciplined agile delivery and SAFe, and learn how to tailor approaches like managed agile development and Lean startup to align with business goals.

Explore the original disciplined agile delivery model, a hybrid framework that extends Scrum with agile modeling, extreme programming, and Kanban for enterprise-level delivery and PMI endorsement.

Explore how the disciplined agile delivery model evolves into an enterprise-level framework with six life cycles, including standard with Scrum, Kanban, and continuous delivery Agile and Lean.

Explore extensions to the disciplined agile delivery model, including disciplined DevOps, disciplined IT, and disciplined agile enterprise, to enable enterprise-level integration, automation, and sense and respond releases.

Explore the scaled Agile framework and its three levels—portfolio, program, and team—and how vision and roadmaps drive enterprise value. Decode its use of release management and epics for aligning investments.

Valpak demonstrates enterprise-level agile transformation with the scaled Agile framework, driven by senior leadership and an external coach, delivering faster time to market, higher productivity, openness, and strategic focus.

Explore alignment and value disciplines: product leadership, operational excellence, and customer intimacy, for enterprise agile transformations that align people, processes, and systems around customer value.

Explore how value disciplines influence selecting an agile project management approach and making agile work across product leadership, operational excellence, and customer intimacy contexts.

Explore how agile project management enhances adaptability, time to market, cost efficiency, business value, and customer satisfaction, using a self-assessment tool to tailor the approach to your organization.

Discover why an agile transformation requires aligning culture, values, and business objectives, and how organizational change enables collaborative, customer-centric teams with rapid decision making.

Align agile transformation with corporate culture, values, and business objectives while addressing obstacles such as cross-functional collaboration, respect for self-organizing teams, and organizational commitment.

Examine eight change-management errors identified by Kotter and apply them to enterprise-level agile transformations, highlighting urgency, vision, short-term wins, obstacles, and culture anchoring.

Explore not-so-successful enterprise agile case studies to uncover pitfalls in scaling, governance, development integration, and application support, and learn why fail early fail often matters.

Explore an enterprise-level agile transformation at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, detailing a five-year shift from legacy systems to a service-oriented architecture via a hybrid governance model.

Develop an enterprise level agile implementation plan by outlining the planning process, portfolio planning and management, and project implementation management, incorporating lean startup concepts.

Compare traditional plan-driven portfolio management with agile approaches to reveal the shift in roles, dynamic investment decisions, and self-organizing teams in enterprise projects.

Explore how organizations manage project implementation across traditional and agile settings. Assess governance, progress tracking, and self-organizing teams with product owner leadership.

Develop an implementation plan for an enterprise-level agile transformation, clarifying the end state vision, governance across levels, and the tools and pilots that enable empowerment, visibility, and change management.

Adapt agile to fit your business, reengineer processes for customer value with cross-functional teams and data-driven decisions, using course resources and an implementation strategy to align strategy and outcomes.