In our previous Newsletter, we made the following announcement: On March 20th, 2020 the first online course modules were released into the production environment of our website, www.agilenomics.net.
While this statement remains true, we opted for a smaller BETA focus group to take the course and get certified, before launching a formal marketing and advertising campaign. We took this approach for several reasons …
On March 20th, 2020 the first online course modules were released into the production environment of our website, www.agilenomics.net. The first online course is also our flagship course, titled “Value-Side Thinking and Decision Making”. This course introduces …
November 2019 marked another historic milestone in the journey of launching the AGILENOMICS™ brand. After a significant amount of collaboration throughout 2019 with our web developers Rolla Creative, LLC, the www.agilenomics.net website qualified for a USPTO trademark registration for classes 042 and 035. With this formal registration, the AGILENOMICS™ brand has …
See our AgileDC 2019 presentation on the Value of Preserving the Agile Mindset in 3d Party Vendor Contracts
John Margetis to Give Lightning Talk: “The Value of Preserving the Agile Mindset in 3d Party Vendor Contracts” on September 23 at 11:15am Ignoring the importance of including a commitment …
View Newsletter as PDF » Agile Contracting by AGILENOMICS™ Launch Chrysinou Consulting’s J. Margetis unveils the market-ready course on 7/5 On Friday, July 5th, 2019, at a restaurant in Ashburn, …
Why it is important for an Agile software development team to understand that the work they produce is a corporate investment expected to yield value in the form of an internal process improvement or marketable commodity.
If an Agile software development team is treated merely as a “staff augmentation” line item, and not as a strategic partner in an investment project, there is a high risk that stakeholders will not achieve the results they originally intended – they will not achieve maximum process development / improvement levels, cost savings, or highest possible returns on investment that the business has intended. The teams in such a scenario risk falling into an “order-taking” mindset vs. a more proactive and innovative mindset. If this occurs, the project execution results risk being only marginally better than in a “Waterfall” approach…the return on investment will be low, because sprint over sprint, low-commitment “order-takers” will not succeed in delivering the highest quality of acceptable software…this phenomenon results in reduced value delivered over the duration of the project. In other words, in terms of cost analysis, the company will have just paid for less than they had planned for.
Join us at the Agile2019 Conference in Washington DC where I will be offering a Lightning Talk entitled “Vendor Contract mindset vs. Agile Mindset – Adversarial or Collaborative?“
There is nothing new about associating the Agile Retrospective with Continuous or “Relentless” Improvement. That’s what it is for, that’s why we do it. However, often in the Agile Coaching world, we notice that Retrospective ideas that are “out of” an individual team’s control don’t get any traction. This becomes a missed opportunity for organizational Process Improvement and Business Value Reengineering. It is also a missed opportunity to analyze potential cost savings that could result from addressing the larger organizational impediments that the Agile teams are raising.
It is common for corporations to focus on “cost-cutting” measures. While it is an extremely important economic principle to maximize profits by lowering costs, ignoring the impacts of business investment decisions on value creation can be detrimental to the quest for maximum profits. In this light, making cost-based or “cost-side” decisions without adding “value-side” thinking and decision making is not advisable.
The AGILENOMICS™ brand of training focuses on using simple, proven techniques designed to help students identify costly inefficiencies and tactical errors that abound in the industry. This coupled with focus on “Value-side” thinking , is designed to equip professionals of all skill sets and levels with a refreshed way of approaching the delivery of Value in any organization.
