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This article covers everything you need to know about OKRs and outlines the five key steps to successful OKR planning.

Consider trying out the fun retrospective questions we have listed in this article, or use them as inspiration to develop your own. 

This article explores the four stages of the product management lifecycle so you can begin applying the knowledge within your team and organization.

This article breaks down the primary responsibilities outlined in a typical product owner job description.

This article provides tips on how to become a scrum master and three career alternatives to consider.

What is agile leadership? Experts in our network provide first-hand insights into the core principles of agile leadership.

This article covers everything you need to know about acceptance criteria: what it is, how to write it, and examples. 

This article explores the pros and cons of AI in project management and seven helpful AI tools.

This article provides compelling reasons to change your perspective on the state of agile, setting the stage for a discussion on whether agile is dead.

In this article, we compare six popular personal project management tools to help you save time and find options that may meet your unique needs. 

What is a user story in agile methodology? If you find yourself pondering this question, along with who writes user stories, how, and what you need to know to get started, this article is for you.

Imagine overseeing 45 different innovation projects, each with its own set of challenges.

This article provides five job boards you can integrate into your job search strategy for in-person & remote agile jobs.

This article provides ICAgile’s top three recommendations for how to implement sprints for effective agile project management.

When Anne Engholm joined BESTSELLER Tech as the people and organizational development lead, the department had recently adopted an agile framework. 

This article provides five recommendations for agile leaders to create a work environment that supports and seeks to improve employee morale. 

Learn how to conduct a productive meeting with these 5 tips: set clear goals, emphasize facilitation, design ahead, engage your team, and cater to diverse learning styles.

Learn about how to choose between Miro and Mural and our five tips for improving engagement using these tools.

This article explores the purpose of agile metrics, common tracking challenges, and a few popular agile metrics to get you started.

Despite being well-versed in advanced agile practices and holding several certifications, Tim Pratt, a Senior Agile Delivery Manager at 360insights, felt the need to revisit the foundational aspects of agile methodologies.

This article offers a comprehensive look at workplace psychological safety and four tips for organizational leaders to begin fostering psychological safety within their teams. 

This article explores the five foundational AI concepts that product managers need to know to lead their product teams effectively and ten tools that help streamline the development process.

Whether you are starting your personal brand from scratch or want to incorporate more strategy into your marketing efforts, this article has something for you. 

This article explores ICAgile’s perspective on return-to-office mandates and our tips to lead more effective remote teams for those continuing to work in a remote or hybrid model.

This article shares five tried-and-true strategies used within ICAgile to energize employees and promote team productivity.

This article draws directly from Shannon Ewan’s experience as an agile leader and practitioner as we explore the four most critical steps leaders must take to spearhead a successful agile transformation within their teams and organizations.

Learn how agile organizations can build an intentional recruitment strategy that results in the right hiring decisions and a flourishing team culture. 

This article covers the foundational knowledge you need to understand kanban, how it works, its benefits, and the core principles of the visual project management method.

We combed through our course offerings and hand-picked five learning tracks across various technology specialties–from product management to development operations–that will enhance your knowledge of the tech industry and build a shared understanding that enhances cross-collaboration. 

We sat down with Li Bickerich to learn more about how the idea for an ICAgile VR course was born, the development process, the experiment's results, and the future of learning at Roche.

To sustain the high demands of a product owner role, you need a few skills to supersede expectations, and we interviewed an expert on the ICAgile team to gain a high-level perspective on the topic.

In this article, we provide readers with four points to consider when choosing an agile project management tool and examples of popular tools currently on the market. 

It’s been five months since Jed Gorka took the Enterprise Agility Deep Dive with Systemic Agility, “and I keep going back to the slides every week for something new,” he says.

Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. On an individual and organizational level, growth and success will hinge on who can effectively approach and manage AI strategies.

In today’s tech-savvy world, an openness to adaptation and continuous learning is critical to improving metrics and value delivery. That’s why agile is an obvious choice for marketing teams that want to stay ahead of the curve. 

LawGecko is an AI-powered platform that provides users with confidential and empathetic chat support, local services, legal guidance, and access to a community of fellow users who share similar experiences.

In this article, we discuss the responsibilities of a product manager, the standard career progression, and how to break into the field. Whether you’re a recent graduate or ready to make a career switch, this quick read will prepare you to arrive and thrive in the industry. 

Change management is the process of preparing, supporting, and helping organizations adopt and embrace changes. An organizational change can be technological, procedural, cultural, or structural. 

A leadership style is a leader's approach to motivating, organizing, and communicating with their team. It encompasses their attitude, behavior, and decision-making process, which heavily influences organizational culture and employee performance.

A minimum viable product, or MVP, is an early version of a product that includes the essential features to be marketable and functional. An MVP helps teams create customer-centric products and ideas.

Value stream mapping zooms out to examine an entire value stream from start to finish while process mapping provides a detailed visual representation of any organizational process within a given value stream.

What does a customer-centric mindset look like? Learn about a customer-centric mindset, three benefits of customer-centricity, and six business that are putting the concept into action.

The Competing Values Framework, also known as CVF, was created in 1983 by Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron to provide a tool for leaders to assess and transform their workplace culture.

The Agile Manifesto is a set of principles and values that emphasizes adaptability, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement in order to deliver valuable products.

Organizational culture refers to the values, beliefs, and behaviors that shape a company's unique work environment. These characteristics heavily influence how a business operates, impacting employee satisfaction, productivity, communication, retention rates, and profitability.

Managing a portfolio of products can seem overwhelming. With so many variables across different products, where do you begin? Successful product managers start with a clear understanding of their entire portfolio and its strategic position in the market.

Amidst the whirlwind of AI excitement, some of it is mere hype or the latest dazzling trend. In the ever-evolving realm of organizational development, coaching has emerged as a key catalyst for enhancing collaboration, adaptability, and purposeful growth. When the only constant is change, adopting an agile mindset and coaching towards collaboration, learning and flexibility is pivotal in steering teams towards sustainable success.

While a methodology is not essential for being agile, it can serve as a useful tool. Let’s look at some of the most popular frameworks and methodologies. They all share the common goal of fostering agility within a project team or organization.

Product backlog refinement is the process of reviewing and updating items in the backlog on a regular basis. This includes breaking down larger items into smaller slices, adding new items, removing unnecessary ones, and ensuring the existing items have clear acceptance criteria.

As professionals, we're constantly navigating the ever-evolving landscape of education and career development. For many of us, it’s challenging to know whether investing time and money in certified learning is worth it, or if real-world experience is enough.

For agile teams, a Definition of Done identifies the criteria that a task, feature, or user story must meet to be considered complete. It serves as a guide, clarifying the work the team needs to complete and creating a shared understanding among the team and stakeholders.

Curious about the difference between a product owner and a product manager? Many organizations use the terms interchangeably, but there are key differences. As more companies embrace a product-centric approach, it's important to have an understanding of both roles. Here’s how these two roles differ, how they compliment each other, and how to decide which role might be the best fit for you.

Ethical questions have always been part of the agile coaching profession, but there hasn’t always been clear guidance or governance around ethics in agile coaching. Learn more about why ethics matter, a draft code of ethics for agile coaches, and ICAgile's commitment to ethical agile coaching.

In today's fast-paced business world, organizations are constantly seeking ways to become more adaptable and innovative, and many are turning to agile ways of working to achieve these goals. Agile coaching helps organizations and teams to navigate the complexities of agile ways of working and realize the benefits that come with them.

In tech, agility is about streamlining, finding the right product, and building it in the most nimble and flexible way possible. When we talk about business agility outside of tech, in the back office departments, we're mainly talking about risk and human dynamics. We’re asking ourselves, “How agile can we be given the constraints that we have?” At Riot Games, we decided to find out.

Ahmed Sidky, the Head of Business Agility at Riot Games and President of ICAgile, shares how leaders created training that fueled product innovation at Riot Games.

My boss called me into his office one morning to tell me about a new project I would be working on with a team of contractors. After giving me an overview, he said, “They use agile for software development. You’re going to be the Product Owner. You need to figure out what that means and come back and tell the rest of us.” Here's how investing in continuous learning helped Christina Hartikainen grow as a product owner.

Today’s fast-changing market requires organizations to be in tune with their customer's shifting needs. This requires organizations to stay grounded in customer-centricity and have a deep understanding of how their products serve their customers.

Often, organizations pursuing business agility know they need coaching, but there’s confusion around why coaching is so valuable, what good coaching looks like, and what type of coaching is needed. Here are five things organizations need to know in order to engage with coaches in the most effective and enduring way possible.

Along with the original Four Ps of Marketing, the Four Ps of Agile Marketing capture the key elements that are necessary for organizations to inspect and adapt to shifting markets and customer needs.

Too many leaders struggle with micromanagement. Here's how to apply principles of behavior change from James Clear's book Atomic Habits to become a more agile leader.

Agile team coaching vs. enterprise agile coaching: what's the difference and which type of coaching is right for you?

Achieving organizational agility requires significant mindset and cultural shifts that are fundamentally a process of human change. Understanding organizations as human systems and working with them as such is essential for today’s agile coaches and leaders.

In this post, we explain how agility in leadership and agile coaching enables business agility and discuss how organizations can develop capability in both.

Use these six tips to develop and deliver top-quality remote learning.

Tips for leaders to unlock the potential in people and teams and enable high levels of organizational success.

Brit Murray was inspired by the agile coaching experts in her local community. Now, she's one of them.

This white paper identifies a foundational set of principles that underlie the various approaches to adaptive Lean Portfolio Management.