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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

You know, in that same period of time, not on that same program, but in that same period of time, we also had teams interfacing directly with really large banks. I’m sitting there as this relatively young project manager, teaching all these folks at the bank about Agile, right, and risk management and things. – [Mike] Yeah.

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

We were doing like large online banking bill payment kinds of things. And business architecture kind of a nebulous term, but how do you form teams? I talk about things like predictability quality, early return on investment, cost savings, innovation, product fit. Now, how do we get them to go out and be more innovative?

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

And I was talking to this business advisor I have and I was telling him about this idea and he goes, this guy’s like 65. He ran a company of about 1400 people, does private equity and investment banking and all this really interesting stuff. And he’s like, that’s super insightful. And I went, oh, okay.

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Balancing Company Culture: Why Results Come First

Leading Agile

The idea again, was that if we could do those things, we could build the right products, we could get faster feedback cycles, we could get better attention to quality, we could get early delivery, we could get predictability, we could get efficiency, we could get lower costs, we could get innovation. I want our family to be successful.

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Balancing Company Culture: Why Results Come First

Leading Agile

The idea again, was that if we could do those things, we could build the right products, we could get faster feedback cycles, we could get better attention to quality, we could get early delivery, we could get predictability, we could get efficiency, we could get lower costs, we could get innovation. I want our family to be successful.

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