Customer Centricity - Meet customer needs.

Advances in technology and communication, explosive growth in information, have given rise to a more empowered demanding global consumer. Customer needs should be meet more than ever.  But This does not mean doing everything customers want.  Customer Collaboration is a key principle of Agile, but is often ignored or given limited time and focus.  Companies using Agile offer a variety of benefits for their customers, and ensure that the voice of the customer is truly integrated into the business.  

Superior Value Delivery Disciplines

What is your company doing better than anyone else? What’s the value your company provides to your customers? How can you increase that value next year? What does it take to be a leader in your market and stay there in an ever more demanding environment? Companies can gain leadership by providing superior value to these customers. There are few disciplines for superior value delivery: operational excellence, customer intimacy and product leadership.

User stories Business Value

Although it may look easy user story business value might be really hard to measure. Where do we need to start, do we need to assign value to tons of small user stories ending up with lots of waste? What are the problems with assigning business value? How do we know the business value? And how do we assign it?

Low Hangigng Fruit Principel in Agile

A commonly used metaphor for doing the easiest or simplest thing first.  Easy-to-implement features that provide significant value. However, there are usually only so many low hanging fruits, and once those have been "picked,"you must put in  effort in other places to achieve results.

Agile Business Value Handbook - Connecting the business to IT

A full lecture ,Matt VanVleet  explained how to connect the Business with the IT. Using agility we need to figure out how to get value software as fast as possible to production. If all we are doing is focus on agility it will not be enough. Agility is just a tool, it’s not the end goal. The real thing is that we need to make sure we also solve some crucial point’s problems to the organization, and we need to think how we get the business side and the IT connected. Whoever figure this out has an enormous business advantage over others. 

Are you solving the right problem? Agile Business Value Calculation

Agile teams want to deliver maximum business value. How do we do that? How do we know what’s more valuable and what’s less valuable? How do you decide between stories, projects or clients? And how do we actually assign it? Well, Assignment of the business value points is as much an art as it is a science.