Leading Agile

APRIL 11, 2023

Agile begins to break down because these impediments are outside the teams’ span of control. You’re going to need a plan to deal with the things that are getting in the way of Business Agility. One of the biggest things that we see and that we believe, and we think is a huge barrier to adopting Agile.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

If you want to be successful at Agile Transformation —especially at scale—you’ll need more than Agile Coaches teaching your teams the ceremonies of Scrum or how to do SAFe and LeSS. To be successful, your company will need an array of people to take on various Agile roles and responsibilities.

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Simplilearn

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Looking at the looming uncertainties, organizations are increasingly turning to agile project management processes and ways to maintain competitiveness and adaptability. . The significance of company resilience saw a dramatic shift in 2022 due to the impact of Covid-19. Read More.

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Cprime

APRIL 17, 2024

Agile methodologies have reshaped software development with promises of flexibility, speed, and collaboration. The integration of AI into Agile practices presents a compelling opportunity to bridge this gap. At its core, Agile promised enhanced transparency, quicker delivery cycles, adaptability to change, and improved collaboration.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 2, 2023

When people say they have a culture problem that’s preventing them from sustaining change in an Agile Transformation, what they’re really saying is that they have a cognitive dissonance problem. You have an inability to help people see how Agile is going to improve the organization.

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Leading Agile

JULY 11, 2018

By now, virtually everyone has at least heard of agile and read the manifesto. Agile has finally been vetted by the early adopters and is now becoming mainstream. I, like others, talk about the difference between “doing Agile” and “being agile”—differing the big “A” agile and the little “a” agile is intentional[BC1] .

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Vitality Chicago

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The sad reality is that though well-intentioned, most agile transformations fail. To be clear, agile transformation success is different than agile project success. Success rates for agile tend to be significantly higher than those for traditional approaches, and there are plenty of data points to support that.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This one is for all the team members and Scrum Masters, the people on the ground who see why Agile could make a huge difference in their entire organization but just don’t have the title or agency to sign the contracts to make it happen. Want to listen only? Here’s the audio: Contacting Mike Cottmeyer. LinkedIn: [link].

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Including technology in your Agile Transformation Roadmap is essential because you will have dependencies if you only transform people and processes. When technology is not addressed, it will slow down your Transformation because legacy technology doesn’t always fit into new product development or overall goals.

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Leading Agile

MAY 4, 2023

When organizations set out to adopt Agile, they always have a business reason. But when the teams start doing all the Agile things, and they’re met with resistance from the organization around them, it’s hard to point to success because not much changed. It’s never just because they really love Scrum, or SAFe, or LeSS.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2021

Although there is not a written rule on the difference between an Agile or Transformation coach, in my experience there is a distinct difference. . Agile Coaching. Agile coaching is the outcome of successful Transformation coaching. . Transformation Coaching. Transformation Coaching.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 22, 2024

Nobody sets out to adopt agile just to adopt agile. Companies invest in agile because they think it will help them solve a business problem. They hope Agile will help the delivery teams work more efficiently, decrease defects, or provide a more collaborative working environment. So, what do they care about?

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

An Agile Transformation Consultant who wants to lead a successful Transformation is going to need more than a deep understanding of Agile. In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation. Experience.

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Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

Today, Agilists must have a plan for incorporating DevOps practices into the early stages of Agile Transformation. But what if we told you there’s a whole class of DevOps considerations that no one is talking about that’s secretly killing your ability to unleash the potential of Agile? How many of you here are consultants?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Leading large-scale Agile Transformation is extremely complex. That’s why Agile Transformation fails so frequently. In this video, Mike Cottmeyer uncovers some of the biggest reasons organizations aren’t getting the value out of Agile they thought they would.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 23, 2021

We know that Transforming a large, complex organization isn’t easy. Agile processes require a certain context to be effective, so we have to address the structure and alignment of the organization first. Agile Transformation is typically difficult at any scale. Size and Complexity. Dependencies.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2022

Achieving lasting change to an organization through an Agile Transformation or increasing Business Agility is not for the faint of heart. In contrast, Business Agility is intended to be flexible. A goal of Agile Transformations is, in part, to gain the ability to adapt to what can be empirically shown to be true.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Adopting Agile is never about adopting an Agile methodology. Agile process is—at best—a means to an end. Understanding your business goals will align your organization around common outcomes, help you explain your Transformation strategy, and identify necessary tradeoffs. Some of the common goals of going Agile are: .

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. There are six key drivers for Agility that we most commonly see, which include: Predictability: One of the most common goals we see organizations have for Transformation is actually predictability. It’s about creating the business outcomes we want.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 12, 2023

True Business Agility requires a lot more than team-level Agile. It requires an integrated operating model across the entire organization, where all the different parts of the business are plugged into an Agile System of Delivery, and it operates as an integrated whole. What does it take to achieve Enterprise Agility?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 17, 2023

Agile Transformation isn’t about a big-bang rollout of Agile, and then Presto! It’s about meeting the organization where it is today, and iteratively and incrementally rolling out Agile capabilities over time. We are continuing our conversation around common misconceptions around Agile Transformation.

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Cprime

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In an era where agility is not just a buzzword but a necessity, the integration of finance into SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) enterprises represents a crucial yet challenging endeavor. As the business landscape rapidly evolves, aligning financial strategies with Agile methodologies becomes imperative.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So, you’ve recognized the need for your organization to undergo a digital or scaled Agile transformation. In either case, there’s an element that can sometimes be overlooked or underappreciated, but that is truly vital to a successful transformation: training. What is Agile transformation training?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 21, 2022

For the past 20+ years, I have worked with small and large organizations seeking more business agility. I’ve seen firsthand that the Transformation is not as difficult for smaller organizations because there are fewer layers to work through. WHERE TRANSFORMATIONS CAN GO WRONG. For larger businesses, it becomes more challenging.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Agile Transformation is a journey. Expeditions moving through Basecamps are the primary unit of progress of an Agile Transformation. To learn more about the LeadingAgile approach to Transformation, go to: [link]. And it starts exactly where the organization realistically is and works forward from that point.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Agile necessitates that we measure progress a certain way. But before we can measure any progress, the first thing we need to understand is our goals for the Transformation. What do we want out of Agility? This is the goal of the Transformation effort. . This is the goal of the Transformation effort. . Activities.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 10, 2021

I have largely been exposed to Agile transformations in which the completion, more often than not, results in building more stuff faster. What many Agile Transformations fail to address, however, is the question of why are we building what we are building in the first place. The keyword here is relative.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Is an Agile Transformation Coach any different than being an Agile Coach? When most people think about Agile Coaches, they tend to think about a person who comes in and assists the teams with things like: Learning Scrum, SAFe, LeSS. Agile Transformation Coach Leaders. Transformation Lead.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Leading large-scale Agile Transformation is extremely complex. That’s why successful Agile Transformation requires a fundamentally unique approach. Elevate Agile is one-day event on September 29th dedicated to elevating the topics of Agile Transformation and Business Agility beyond the realm of practices.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 14, 2022

Agile Transformation is more than just installing Agile processes or Agile principles. It’s more than simply training your team on Agile methodology. But if that’s the case, then what is the actual path to becoming an Agile organization? . Contacting Mike Cottmeyer. LinkedIn: [link]. Twitter: [link].

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2023

And would you be able to guarantee those actions would lead to greater Business Agility? A lot of people believe that Agile Transformation starts with culture because it feels like a culture problem. It feels like there’s resistance to change, and that command-and-control leaders won’t let the teams be Agile.

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Cprime

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So, you’ve recognized the need for your organization to undergo a digital or scaled Agile transformation. In either case, there’s an element that can sometimes be overlooked or underappreciated, but that is truly vital to a successful transformation: training. What is Agile transformation training?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

How do we translate our Agile Transformation to financial benefits we can measure? Check out this clip where Dennis Stevens explores four areas where financial benefits are created through your Transformation: Value Density. Reducing Head Count Costs. The Total Cost of Ownership. Market and Business Achievements.

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Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In addition to all the picture-taking, I’ve also been thinking about how the process of learning how to swim is similar to Agile transformations and the development of new Agile capabilities. Likewise, transformations take time, especially if organizations are from traditional project management backgrounds. .

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Implementing Agile is about more than adopting a new methodology or working to change your culture. If the systems aren’t present to support those two things, Agile won’t succeed. These are common misconceptions about Agile that can lead more organizations to failure than success. So, what works instead?

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Leading Agile

APRIL 19, 2021

Successful Agile Transformations are a lot like Bigfoot. Many people have never experienced a successful Agile Transformation, but everybody talks about them. For years, one of the ‘agile Bigfoots’ (Bigfeet?) So, are Agile Transformations that work and last as rare as Bigfoot sightings? was Spotify.

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Cprime

JULY 20, 2023

Every decade, a transformational wave happens in the world of software. We’ve seen it with Agile, then with the cloud, and now we are riding the currents of AI-powered capabilities. To stay competitive, businesses must embrace these new waves of transformational approaches.

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