Steve Denning on #Agile -All about Leadership, innovation, management and business narrative

His most recent books are the Leader's Guide to Radical Management (2010), The Leader's Guide to Storytelling (2nd ed, 2011) and The Secret Language of Leadership (2007). I consult with organizations around the world on leadership, innovation, management and business narrative. At the World Bank, I held many management positions, including director of knowledge management (1996-2000). I am currently a director of the Scrum Alliance, an Amazon Affiliate and a fellow of the Lean Software Society. You can follow me on Twitter at @stevedenning. My website is at www.stevedenning.com.

How to use #Kanban for #UX ?

How to do UI Design and Agile Devlopment?

As more organizations adopt Agile development practices, usability practitioners want to ensure that the resulting products are still designed with users in min, needs to change as well. How?

Why Is It Time for Agile Marketing? - Reading List

Marketing has become increasingly challenging today. In today’s fast-paced world, marketers no longer have the luxury of spending months on crafting large projects. "Gone are the days of old school marketing, as traditional, fixed “annual marketing plans” are quickly dying out and replaced by more flexible, adaptable approaches that reflect today’s rapidly evolving marketing landscape." Agile marketing drives long-term marketing strategies with customer-focused, short term iterative projects which improve both relevance and responsiveness. It enables faster and better results with smarter impr...

If you're not getting what you want from Agile, these signs might explain why.

Agility is the ability for development teams to respond quickly, deliver value sooner, and change your product along with changing customer needs and market opportunities. But, it is not always easy; in fact it’s hard to get out of agile what you want. Successful Agile implementation requires many different things coming together at the same time. If you're not getting what you want from Agile, these signs might explain why.

Storyboarding - Would you be willing to be this collaborative when creating your backlog?

A storyboard is a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents. Storyboard provides an ideal platform to create user stories and spark conversation in a format that is much less taxing than a wall of text. Use it when creating your backlog.

What Should I Use? Scrum Or kanban?

Which agile software development methodology is better suited for my own situation?
It is import to assess your current context, decide what outcomes you are trying to achieve, and make an informed decision of how you are going to design your initial Agile Operating Model (AOM).

MVP is not a BETA - MVP vs BETA

A lot of people misuse the term “MVP” or Minimum Viable Product. To be clear an MVP is not a beta. 

Experience shows that early product releases can be a smart move when doing innovation. What used to be called betas or even alphas is nowadays often referred to as an MVP (Minimum Viable Product).A lot of people are however substituting the word “beta” with “MVP” these days, although there are some significant differences.