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We have learned from a wide range of projects that in agile transformations the question always arises as to the state of an organisation’s agile efforts. In order to be able to answer this and many other questions concerning the topic of agility in a company together with our customers, a working group from adesso’s ‘Agile’ Community of Practice has developed an interactive format for tracking agile teams and organisations – adesso’s Agile Assessment. In my blog post, I will highlight this format’s added value and the approach it takes as well as provide an outlook on how the agile transformation can be supported in organised way.

As soon as ‘agility’ becomes a topic within companies, the Scrum framework also enters the conversation. This framework is easy to understand and quick to implement, but difficult to put into practice. For success, we need a specific inner attitude. Behaving in a way that adds value and exemplifies the Scrum values builds trust. Our attitude of trust in the cause and people gives us the ability to shape our success.

In the IT space, sustainability sometimes has negative connotations. It is associated with higher costs and lower performance without any immediate returns. However, sustainable digital solutions have the potential to set your company apart from its competitors on the marketplace, open up new fields of business and help preserve the foundation of life and business for us all. You will find out why every company should look into green tech in my blog post.

Data strategy is different for every company, but usually challenges we face are similar. To better illustrate these challenges and data strategy as a solution let’s use a container logistics analogue.

In previous blog posts (see below), we provided the essential facts about agile software development. Agility can help us solve complex problems, especially when operationalisation is not done in a dogmatic way. Today, we will be looking at the interplay between agility and ambidexterity.

In my last blog post, I summarised why a company should have a mission statement, my understanding of it and how you can use key questions to develop such a mission statement. Now it is a matter of operationalising the mission – in other words, taking specific action without losing focus. This is where the objectives and key results (OKRs) come into play. I will describe what all this is about in my blog post.

Low-code is an intuitive, visual approach to modern software development that minimises the amount of effort needed for programming and speeds up the development process. But how can the potential of low-code be fully exploited and what role do citizen developers play in this context? We will answer these questions in our blog post.

Do you remember when we did not have navigation devices? We would chart the route on a map or an atlas, but did not always end up where we wanted to go. Thankfully we now have services such as Google Maps. In most cases, we are shown many different route options, since there are many ways to reach your destination. This is the same case with websites. In this blog post, I would like to show you what different types of site navigation there are and what things you need to consider to ensure that your customers do not end up on another site.

In previous blog posts in this series, we found out about agility in software development. Empirical knowledge also plays a key role here, too. I will explain why in my blog post.