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Aligning Your People, Processes, and Technology to Customers

Leading Agile

And one of the things that Dennis Stephens, 50 years ago when we first met, was talking a lot about was the idea of business architecture. The Challenges of Change Management And I think part of the challenge is that as practitioners, even if we recognize it, we don’t know quite what to do about it.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

So as you guys know, Leading Agile, we are exclusively in the change management business. Typically, we’re doing Agile transformation and all the change management is associated with that. Implementing solid practices is key to changing hearts and minds over time. How are we keeping everybody informed?

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

What we had to flip them into first was a business capability aligned organization organized around their business architecture. And then what you start to see is that there’s clusters of dependencies across that business architecture. He came from a business architecture background.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

So, that was kind of cool, the thing that I was doing like right before we met was I had been brought into Microsoft as a contractor, building out a business architecture practice, I think they called motion. So, I was helping Microsoft build a business architecture practice, on the tail of that. – Hmm.

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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. . And then from the business architecture up, it’s more like a line to strategy.

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Underlying Competencies for a BA as per BABOK – Behavioral Characteristics and Business Knowledge

MindsMapped

Business Analysis – Underlying Competencies. In this article we cover the 2 nd and 3 rd aspects of the underlying competencies for a Business Analyst as per BABOK namely Behavioral Characteristics and Business Knowledge. These characteristics are not unique to the role of a Business Analyst.

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