Fractal Systems Consulting

16/06/2022

What exactly is it that makes a business agile? And how can you achieve this?

Any business can become agile. However, to do this, you’ll need to make agility a major priority in your business and continue making adjustments until you achieve it.

Learn more in this read from Entrepreneur Media.

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Any business can become agile, even hulking bureaucracies.

15/06/2022

How can your organisation create a fluid environment that fosters an agile mindset and easily aligns with change?

As this article from KnowledgeHut upGrad states, an agile transformation results in a real and lasting positive impact. When done right, agile can empower organisations to outpace the competition, adapt to changing market scenarios, work on innovative solutions to everyday problems, and continuously maximise value.

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What is an agile environment? Find out what makes an environment Agile, its characteristics, and examples.

14/06/2022

What are Scrum Product Backlogs?

The Scrum framework presents a well-defined structure for agile projects to follow, with key meetings and artefacts such as the Product Backlog.

Essentially this is a prioritized collection of all the work to be completed – a subset of which feeds into each iteration, or Scrum Sprint.

In this article, we look at Scrum Product Backlogs in more detail, exploring:

💥 What 'Story Points' are and how these are assigned to Product Backlog items
💥 Who defines and controls the Product Backlog
💥 What a 'Sprint Backlog' is

Check out the full blog post below to learn more.

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13/06/2022

We are more than just Agile professionals.

Here to help you future-proof your business and responsive processes, we assist financial institutions build and embed lasting agile capability, using:

✅ Agile Transformation
✅ Optimised Learning
✅ Value-Driven Delivery

Are you ready to embrace change and move with purpose?

Contact us today ⬇️

https://fractalsystems.co.uk/

09/06/2022

❓ What is a Sprint Retrospective?

One of the strengths of the Scrum framework is that it encourages regular and defined communication between team members. This occurs through iterations or Agile Scrum Sprints.

A Sprint retrospective takes place after each Sprint and looks at how the next Sprint can be improved.

In this piece, we take at what a Sprint Retrospective is in more detail, exploring:

◾ The Sprint planning meeting
◾ What does a Sprint Retrospective look at?
◾ Who should attend the Spring Retrospective meeting?

Read more below... ⬇️

https://fractalsystems.co.uk/sprint-retrospective/

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08/06/2022

Find out how the lean methodology can help you become more efficient, effective, and continuous in your development efforts.

Here, Agile shares some of its main benefits!

https://www.easyagile.com/blog/lean-methodology/

The lean methodology is about reducing waste and improving efficiency to maximize a consistent customer value. Here are seven ways it can help your business.

07/06/2022

Wondering how to scale Agile so that it works for your enterprise?

This guide covers everything from team size and structure to product delivery and adapting to change.

Check it out from hut here:

https://www.knowledgehut.com/blog/agile/guide-to-scaling-scrum

A guide to Scaling Scrum?

06/06/2022

❓ What does an agile business consist of? ❓

There are many factors to maximise the agility of your organisation and this piece from Forbes shares some really important tips to boost your company to the next level.

Discover them below:

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Your organization can hone its adaptability and resiliency by being forward-looking, anticipating industry shifts and learning how to harness agility to meet new customer demands during these movements.

01/06/2022

Can Scrum work with fixed deadlines? ⏳

This is a question we get asked a lot from project and programme managers that are used to the traditional method of waterfall working.

In this post, we explore how Scrum can give your project and programmes the best chance of delivery by organising your team for maximum transparency, productivity and proactive risk control.

Read more here... 👇

https://fractalsystems.co.uk/scrum/can-scrum-work-with-fixed-deadlines/

Scrum sounds great but can Scrum work with fixed deadlines? We get this question a lot from project and programme managers that are used to classical ways of waterfall working. The short answer is yes. But not in the way you are thinking.

31/05/2022

Are you an agile leader?

If you're not sure or want to become one, Thrive shares 5 drivers of agile leadership, including:

💡 Integrity
💡 Direction
💡 Urgency

Discover these and the others in more detail here:

https://lnkd.in/ekxBTY2

By Chuck Mollor Considering how quickly market and competitive landscapes are shifting and the world is changing, agile organizations have a distinct advantage over more traditional organizational structures. Hierarchical, command-and-control approaches are being replaced by dynamically constructed....

29/05/2022

Having the right tools often makes the difference between success and missed opportunity. 💡

An equally important factor that gets much less shine however is the use of the right tool at the right time. Even with many ‘good’ or even ‘great’ tools, it's vital to understand the tools well enough to pick and choose which is most relevant when.

Have you ever used the Strategyzer’s methodology? The above holds true when using this method, explore more below:

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In this blog, we make explicit the purpose of the Questions for Leader vs Project Scorecard to enable you to select the right tool depending on the task. 

26/05/2022

In today's business world, agile methodology is becoming increasingly popular for bringing teams and executives closer to meeting their goals.

This piece from Forbes shares how Synchrony Financial’s tech and operating chief brings agile practices to the executive team:

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Carol Juel has gone from CIO to Chief Technology and Operations Officer to a board-level enterprise technologist. Her pathway to broader responsibilities were fostered by thinking about a broader application of agile principles.