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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. What do you do with planning cadences? What do you do with Enterprise Architecture like, the whole thing, right? Listen now. Agile to Agility Website.

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Overcoming Resistance to Change in Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

So, you’re going to need a better plan of attack. I read a lot of the books and I mean, I think there are definitive definitions, but as individuals, a lot of times we’re using that word pretty loosely. To address this, we can create a plan for incremental and iterative changes. And all these kinds of different things.

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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. Pragmatically, we expect the plan, the roadmap to get there, to adapt to emerging environments and opportunities. One is a story about Helen Keller. Although we want to hold to a high-level vision and define what success means.

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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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What Is Business Analysis | Who Is a Business Analyst

Passionate BA

Daily business analysis We engage in analysis every day, not even realizing it. It happens every time you buy groceries, decide on the best route for your morning commute, or even plan your next vacation. Or, let’s say you are in charge of planning a group vacation. When you book a vacation – that is a process.

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

Leading Agile

But it requires a level of thoughtfulness, planfulness intentionality, and really making the changes in the organization that actually prove the business benefits that you’re looking for. Here’s how you do sprint planning. And I guess, Dean Leffingwell came out with the first book on scaled agile.

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A Change Model for Moving Legacy Systems Into the Cloud

Leading Agile

So I think a lot about the intersection, maybe business architecture, organizational design, domain design, product type organizations, product driven organizations and such. There are things that we might not know and we move a lot of planning up into the left. We put a heavy amount of orchestration on top of anticipating.

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