BA Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Reflecting on my journey from a Junior Business Analyst to a seasoned Business Analyst and eventually evolving into a role where Business Analysis and Product Management intersect, I’ve had the privilege to contribute to organizations as diverse as Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and EPAM, alongside navigating the unique challenges of smaller entities.

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Cprime

AUGUST 9, 2023

Enter Jira Service Management (JSM), a powerful tool for enabling ITSM change management. Change management is crucial in any organization. This article is based on the webinar, How to Enable Change Management With Jira Service Management.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 17, 2023

The core of change management is helping an organization prepare, support, and apply changes to an organization. In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. How Change Management is Typically Implemented.

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Cprime

JULY 9, 2021

Recently, I have been studying how people, teams, and organizations respond to change. This may seem surprising, but I have found the human side of Agile to be the one aspect that is most often ignored or de-emphasized by organizations that attempt to adopt a new way of working. Tip #1 – Consider both skill and will.

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Watermark Learning

JUNE 2, 2021

What is Organizational Change Management (OCM)? Bringing an Agile Perspective to OCM Eight Tips to Create a more Agile OCM Effort. What is Organizational Change Management (OCM)? Organizational Change Management (OCM) focuses on the people side of change. Table of Contents.

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Cprime

JULY 9, 2021

I recently realized something that I probably have always known in the back of my mind years ago – implementing new ways of working is primarily about how we manage change. Given that Agile teams rely heavily on collaboration, absence of trust will most likely disrupt any changes of a successful transition to Agile methods.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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Netmind

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Organizational Change Management is the practice of enabling people to adopt change. A change agent is anyone who: acts intentionally, albeit without formal authority, to facilitate change in an organization. Change Agents. Responsibilities: Help the teams in the change. Change Ambassadors.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

How does a product-centric model enhance organizational agility? – A product-centric model enhances organizational agility by allowing teams to respond quickly to customer feedback, adapt to changes, and deliver value incrementally, ensuring that products are continuously refined and aligned with user needs.

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Cprime

APRIL 21, 2022

During this period of time, I had the opportunity to reflect on my job and realized something that I probably should have paid more attention to earlier in my career – nearly every job that I have had focused on change – implementing or managing change or some sort for an 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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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the face of change, many people inside large organizations are often left with more questions than answers. A good change management strategy accounts for these questions and tries to reduce the angst surrounding the change by deploying solid stakeholder management practices. Do I possess the necessary skills?

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, embracing agility – the ability to turn on a dime for a dime – has become a key to ongoing success for many organizations. However, when companies launch Agile Transformations in hybrid environments, it can introduce a new set of challenges.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2022

PSTIR is an acronym for a change management model we use at LeadingAgile to explain our approach to creating lasting change. What is PSTIR?

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Agile Coach

APRIL 19, 2018

Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. peaked at #6444 out of 8,000,000 books on Amazon, #198 in Leadership and Management. How this Post is Constructed.

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Growing Agile

JUNE 19, 2020

Much is said and written about the Agile Manifesto that if I were to write about it, I’m sure it wouldn’t be anything that hasn’t been said before. Over the next few blog posts I’m going to break down the agile principles in batches of 3 at a time. This is part one, the first three agile principles.

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Cprime

JUNE 28, 2022

The market is now demanding that companies prioritize agility and the ability to quickly adapt to change. And this goes well beyond supporting and growing agile software development teams. That’s Enterprise Agility. What is Enterprise Agility? What challenges stand in the way of Enterprise Agility?

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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. Agile Transformation Consultant: Team Attributes.

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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

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. If that’s your definition of an Agile Transformation Coach, you’d be right—but only partially.

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Cprime

MARCH 16, 2022

Recently, one of my colleagues asked me an interesting question that I have not heard in a long time: “Why is it that some teams are able to adopt Agile and achieve success and some teams struggle so much?”. If your organization struggles with change, exploring formal change management methodologies may be helpful.

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Netmind

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

One of the most common questions I hear in organizations that I work with is: “When will we finish our agile transformation?” ” This question is based on a traditional way of understanding change management and organizational change in which the paradigm is stability. Gracias, Alfred.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies that adopt Agile never do it just for the sake of adopting Agile. They do know that Waterfall wasn’t working, so Agile will fix those problems, right? They think if they do the “Agile stuff,” they will make quicker progress to achieve their goals.

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Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2018

This means a move away from the predominate way of organizing, managing, and funding work. For small companies, Agile Transformation can be straightforward—since getting alignment can be accomplished by getting everyone in a room and creating shared understanding. The Meaning of Agile Transformation. Agile vs Business Agility.

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Agilemania

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Agile is in the news yet again. In the 15th State of Agile Report, 94% of the respondents reported that their company is using Agile while 65% report that their organization has significant experience with Agile. The percentages must surely have piqued your interest, so let’s understand today’s topic, Agile.

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Watermark Learning

MARCH 31, 2021

Organizations move to “Agile” ways of approaching initiatives to enable them to respond quickly and easily to new opportunities in the marketplace and new customer demands. Consequently, Agile has not only introduced change to the organization in its overall adoption, but it has also quickened the pace of most change initiatives (projects).

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The BAWorld

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Agile is one such discipline that keeps evolving at a reasonable pace and hence agile practitioners must always be on their toes to be relevant and perform their role effectively. Agile blogs act as a valuable source of the latest and most up-to-date information on various subject areas from experienced professionals.

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Cprime

JULY 8, 2022

The terms “Agile” and “DevOps” have become so commonplace in software development, they’ve lost the impact they had at first. While most practitioners have at least a surface understanding of DevOps vs. Agile, the nuances can be lost with familiarity. What is Agile? Agile methods or Agile processes generally promote: .

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Common Anti-patterns for Metrics in Agile.

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Leading Agile

JULY 19, 2021

We are at the midway point in our Agile Transformation-focused exploration of Stephen R. I’m sure we’ve all said it in business and even relationships, but how does Covey intend it towards being highly effective and what does it mean to an Agile Transformation? With that, let’s now consider Habit 4 – Think Win/Win.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 30, 2019

There are all sorts of Agile coaches, consultants, and practitioners out there. In this clip, Mike Cottmeyer discusses what type of leader should be at the forefront of your Transformation and why it’s so important to the success of your next Agile initiative. I’m talking about business Agility. Video Transcript.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Successful Programs for Metrics in Agile. Common Anti-patterns for Metrics in Agile.

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Agile Coach

JUNE 4, 2016

This year at Agile and Beyond was the first Agile event I attended since I presented with Declan Whelan at Agile 2015. Then this year at Agile and Beyond, I had a conversation with someone who self-admittedly is new to the Agile world, more or less. What’s Happened to Agile?

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Training ByteSize

MAY 24, 2021

A little under a year ago, Training Bytesize launched the new virtual and classroom course centered around Agile change management: the Agile Change Agent. From the feedback we have received from past students, the consensus has been that the Agile Change Agent course has been both accessible and friendly.

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Cprime

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Over the past few years, I have gained unique insights from the State of Agile Report regarding industry trends. The 15 th State of Agile Report has some very intriguing tidbits of information that I would like to share with you in case you haven’t found the opportunity to review this report yourself. Scrum remains “king”.

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Agile Coach

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Yesterday Adriana Girdler and I presented Timeless Leadership at the Toronto Agile Tour. Our intent was to show that everything we need to know about leadership has already been invented, we just need to stop and look around once in a while instead of jumping on the next agile fad. Remember the ‘being vs doing’ debates?

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Managed Agile

MARCH 16, 2020

Many people are aware of my Agile Project Management training which has been primarily designed for project managers. Many people are aware of my Agile Project Management training which has been primarily designed for project managers. Agile BM 101 – Hybrid Agile Project Management.

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