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Business Architecture: The Ins and Outs with Whynde Kuehn

Bridging the Gap

Whether you’re learning about business architecture for the first time or dreaming of ways to grow your BA career into a business architecture role, my conversation with Whynde Kuehn will help you discover the value of this role in an organization and what you can do to bridge that gap in your career.

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Seeing Your Vision

Leading Agile

My three-year-old granddaughter has a number of favorite books that she likes me to read to her. When measured against, it forces your business to innovate, continuously improve, and be accountable to progress. One is a story about Helen Keller. Impacting and empowering others in ways she could never imagine.

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

Leading Agile

Like what does it mean to have like that kind of business agility, the ability to redeploy strategic business capabilities into something totally different. But a lot of that value conversation is some around predictability and return on investment and product fit and innovation and such. And so where it kinda went, right?

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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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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. 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. That kind of a thing.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

That’s typically what I’m talking about with the idea of services team Dean talks about in his first safe book, gosh, 10, 12 years ago or something like that, maybe it was a second safe book. He talks about at some level of scale you’re going to have to have some sort of a component architecture.

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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. So that’s the end of the story.

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