{"id":6276,"date":"2018-07-31T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2018-07-29T12:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T06:53:16","slug":"comparative-agility-assessments-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/comparative-agility-assessments-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Agility Assessments | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Definition:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clients, Management other stakeholders need to know \u201cHow are they doing?\u201d. A business does not need to be perfect, it needs to be better than its competitor, stay ahead of them.\u00a0 Organisations are not striving for perfection against some idealised list of agile principles and practices, they are trying to be more agile than their competitors. Becoming agile itself is not a goal, producing better products than the competition remains the goal.\u00a0 Being more agile than one\u2019s competitors indicates organisations ability to deliver better products more quickly and cheaply.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Rubin and Mike created the Comparative Agility assessment, where\u00a0 assessment can be based on individual responses to survey questions. Survey responses for the organisation are aggregated and compared against entire database of assessments. This approach assesses on seven dimensions: teamwork, requirements, planning, technical practices, quality, culture and knowledge creation. A comparative nature of the assessment was intended to be its biggest strength, seeing how your organisation compares with other other organisation improvement efforts can be focused on the most promising areas.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Further Reading:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition:\u00a0 Clients, Management other stakeholders need to know \u201cHow are they doing?\u201d. A business does not need to be perfect, it needs to be better than its competitor, stay ahead of them.\u00a0 Organisations are not striving for perfection against some idealised list of agile principles and practices, they are trying to be more agile than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[17,154,246,1007,3,116,2,29,293,362,58],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-agile","tag-agile-coaching","tag-collaboration","tag-comparity-agility-assessments","tag-kanban","tag-leadership","tag-lean","tag-management","tag-product","tag-project","tag-scrum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018-07-24.png?fit=512%2C280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-1De","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}