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How to measure the Business Impact of your Agile Transformation

Demonstrating Agile’s benefits to your organization is key to driving progress on an Agile transformation. It inspires people to get on board, opening their minds and making them more receptive to change – which is important for those who are new to Agile.

How can leaders overcome challenges to establish meaningful measures of Agile’s impact on their businesses? Here are four best practices.

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Top 10 Mistakes made by new agile Teams in IT

The following is a collection of the 10 most common mistakes that a new agile team can make in IT.

  1. Fear
  2. Poor communication
  3. Poor team structure
  4. Poor estimation & Picking incomplete backlog items
  5. Poor planning
  6. Poor testing
  7. Ignoring customer/user feedback
  8. Lack of team empowerment
  9. Lack of retrospective and demo meetings
  10. No plan to address employee resistance

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2018 Q4 Internet Report: Almost 4.2 billion humans are online

Key facts:

  • There are almost 4,2 billion internet users around the world in October 2018, up seven percent since this time last year.
  • Around 3,4 billion people around the world used social media in September 2018, up 10 percent versus September 2017.
  • More than 5,1 billion people now use a mobile phone, with most using a smartphone.
  • Mobile still accounts for more than half of all global web traffic.

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Seeing Marketing through Communications (and vice versa)

A funny thing happened on the way to digital. Marketing started looking like Communications and Communications started acting like Marketing. Now for the purists, I’m not juxtaposing the need to uphold corporate efficacy and policy nor am I diminishing the important role of customer experience and sales. Rather, I’m speaking from the perch of rethinking how opinion is formed, where advocacy can be found, how insights shape thinking, and the importance of relevance in an organization’s strategic direction.

The wall that once separated both functions no longer exists. It simply can’t in a digital world where customers and employees are in control. So, what does this new paradigm mean for professionals in each area?
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