Leading Agile

JULY 7, 2021

In this video, we explore our iterative and incremental Agile Transformation framework and discuss why this approach is valuable to large organizations attempting to adopt sustainable Agile practices. Additionally, we’ll discuss the common failure modes we often see in our clients’ business architecture. Website: [link].

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Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

When working toward becoming an Agile Organization, many companies begin by applying Agile methodologies at the team-level and then call the Transformation done. The problem is that even when you do it perfectly, establishing a team-level Agile Delivery Model is almost always insufficient. Do you see the problem?

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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

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. You’re done.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? And how would we know that this new Agile world was any good? What other conceptual gaps?

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

Mike Cottmeyer explores the key attributes in each of the three systems necessary for making a success out of the otherwise complex tax of large scale Agile Transformation. And what we are is we’re a consultancy that’s focused on doing Agile Transformation specifically. Transcript. Like what are the networks of teams?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 16, 2020

Becoming Agile isn’t simple. But without the right foundational ecosystem and systems in place to enable Agility, achieving it is nearly impossible. The three systems necessary for Agility are a System of Delivery, System of Transformation, and System of Sustainability. Well, this is the business architecture.

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Netmind

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recently, I had a customer ask me for a way to understand how they were doing on their “agile journey”. And I do agree with some of the positions against them – as a business analyst by trade, my answer to a lot of direct questions has always been, “it depends”. They imply a “one-size-fits-all” approach to agility.

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Netmind

JANUARY 13, 2021

Recently, I had a customer ask me for a way to understand how they were doing on their “agile journey”. And I do agree with some of the positions against them – as a business analyst by trade, my answer to a lot of direct questions has always been, “it depends”. They imply a “one-size-fits-all” approach to agility.

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Modern Analyst

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The BABOK® Guide describes five prominent ones that represent common approaches to Business Analysis: Agile, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Architecture, and Business Process Management.

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Analysts Corner

JANUARY 8, 2023

I personally have loads of BA, Agile, product, automation and design certifications and I’ve found the knowledge gained extremely useful in my various projects. However, obtaining a certification can be helpful in demonstrating your knowledge and skills in the field, and may make you more attractive to potential employers.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Remember to subscribe and listen to Agile Unplugged on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean—and watch each and every episode on YouTube , IGTV , and Facebook. . Soundcloud. – Yeah. When did we first meet?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. Welcome to our latest episode of the Agile Unplugged podcast with host Mike Cottmeyer, LeadingAgile’s CEO. I want an encapsulated business problem, an encapsulated technology solution and a dedicated team.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 25, 2024

In this third installment of our value stream mapping series, Mary shows Lance and Dave how to apply the technique of value stream mapping to your business architecture and capabilities so that you can make more informed, intentional, data-driven decisions to improve your business. Want to Listen Instead?

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BizAcuity

JULY 26, 2021

This mobility between cloud environments aides organizations with greater flexibility and agility in the data deployment options. The architecture of every hybrid cloud environment is different depending on the business requirements and organizational goals. . Increased agility and innovation. Business continuity.

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Analysts Corner

JUNE 27, 2023

The BABOK Guide lists 50 techniques and dozens more can be found in additional IIBA publications for specific contexts such as Agile Analysis, Product Ownership Analysis, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, and Business Architecture.

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BA Coach

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What do business value streams and capabilities mean to an agile team? Agile teams help their organizations to implement change more effectively. It means that solutions produced by an agile team deliver more value to organization and their customers. Business Value Streams. Capabilities. Capability Levels.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In this panel clip, Mike Cottmeyer CEO of LeadingAgile poses the question: What is the relationship between business architecture and product extraction? To dive deeper into the discussion about product extraction, click here: How DevOps Enables Business Architecture Alignment.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s kind of agile transformation adjacent. It’s a little bit of maybe an impediment to agile transformation that we’re going to explore. And I’m going to talk a little bit about what leading Agile’s doing about it and what we’re doing in the market. Hey Dennis. How you doing, man?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It’s kind of agile transformation adjacent. It’s a little bit of maybe an impediment to agile transformation that we’re going to explore. And I’m going to talk a little bit about what leading Agile’s doing about it and what we’re doing in the market. Hey Dennis. How you doing, man?

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Business Bullet

MAY 13, 2023

Business Change Managers: Business change managers help organizations navigate change by developing change management strategies and supporting employees through the change process. Business Architecture: Business architects help organizations develop and implement enterprise-wide strategies that align with their business goals.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 22, 2021

And so, the goal of agile transformation is to really create autonomous units that don’t have dependencies between them. And so, oftentimes the starting place for organizational structure is to look at the business architecture using a technique called business capability modeling.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. Implementing Agile, especially in larger, more complex organizations, still seems to be a black art. All the things we consider hallmarks of a small team, Agile methodology. But here we are.

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Capiro

JULY 19, 2017

Levels of business analysis. This article considers 3 levels of business analysis. Strategic : Business transformations; Portfolio management; Business change; Business architecture and Target operating models; Business agility; Benefits realisation.

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Leading Agile

MAY 9, 2023

The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. Is the Agile industry in a rut? Is the Agile industry in a rut? Everyone knows Agile works. It didn’t work.”

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Capiro

JULY 5, 2017

Assisting in managing the realisation of benefits identified in programme and project business cases. Helping to boost business agility. A source for the development of a business architecture. Developing the skills of business analysts in line with the needs of the organisation.

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Business Borderlines

JULY 2, 2021

Change is the only constant in business. Success is greatly reliant on the business ability to accept and manage change; agility. Business analysis is a relatively new discipline adopted currently by global organizations as a tool to achieve this agility and manage change to their benefit.

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BA Coach

AUGUST 31, 2020

To cover this breadth, BABOK ® defines perspectives that explain how business analysis activities look in different environments, for different initiatives. BABOK ® V3 depicts five perspectives: Agile. Business intelligence. Business architecture. Business process management. Information technology.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

Agile Unplugged is your chance to explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that are actually doing the work of leading large-scale Agile Transformation, out in the field. So, I had never, I’d like heard of Agile, but like, I had no experience with Agile.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

This is Mike Cottmeyer's talk from AgileIndy 2021 on The Executive's Guide to Why Agile Transformation Fails. Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from AgileIndy, 2021 on “Why Agile Transformation Fails.” So I got involved with agile back in like 2003 and I was working in this company called CheckFree.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2021

There are well-understood organizational design patterns and business architectures to orchestrate the manner in which work gets done to support a vision. Impacting and empowering others in ways she could never imagine. Curating a vision releases our potential and forces our resolve to do the same.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 14, 2021

Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Apple Podcasts. In this episode of the Agile Unplugged podcast with host LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, our guest is Dennis Stevens, LeadingAgile’s Chief Methodologist. And so I was like really in like scrum Agile analyst.

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Capiro

JUNE 23, 2022

The concepts of the business do not change often, therefore a business data architecture provides a view of the business that is static and stable. This stable base supports business agility. Potential extensions and changes to this data and their inter-relationships can be discussed at a business level.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When asked what an Agile organization is, most people tend to think it’s one that’s built around a certain mindset, or around Agile practices like Scrum or SAFe—or both. But if it were as simple as a mindset or process change, so many Agile Transformations wouldn’t fail. Base Patterns and Tools. Structure. ??Your

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Capiro

AUGUST 20, 2021

Because the essential concepts of the business are long lasting, a business data architecture provides an enduring view of the business. This stable base supports business agility by separating those aspects that change frequently. Data for business agility. Zachman data layers.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The agile release train (ART) is a long-lived team of agile teams that, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops and delivers value. This agile release train cheat sheet breaks down the purpose, principles, events, and members of the ART. This includes the Scrum Master and Product Owner.

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Business Bullet

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

About 15 years ago I decided to pluck up the courage to set up in business on my own and established Scarlett Solutions, a boutique consultancy firm specialising in Business Analysis, Business Architecture and change delivery.

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