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Do We Need ‘Agile’ Leadership?

Agile Coach

Does anyone remember when Agile Readiness Assessments were all the rage in 2008/2009? Then we realized change readiness assessments have existed for decades and we moved on. Oh, plus change management is boring as hell so we lost our enthusiasm for it. As we complete more, we drive up the need for innovation.

Agile 101
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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

So we first worked together, I guess it was probably back in like late 2009, 2010. – Well, when you’re trying to build software and the software we were building was, was very innovative and kind of leading edge for organizations. So— – We reconnected, yeah. I had joined Pillar for a little bit.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

– So, it took what we had understood about architecture and enterprise architecture and good design principles, and applied it to good program management disciplines that folks like you also brought to the table. – I would say 2009-ish, early 2009 maybe. – [Brian] 2009, 2010? – [Mike] Yeah.

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