Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences?

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

Now, you can further specify that you say, okay, the product owner is the one that creates the backlog, and the team is made up of these roles and not these other roles. And you know, this is what it means to get to a definition of done. Is there a product owner? How do we continuously reevaluate the business architecture?

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I don’t care if you use Scrum to do that, but it wasn’t giving us the business benefits that we want. We want to manage those dependencies until we can break them. The teams definitely have a culture. Was it leadership? Most non-trivial kinds of companies and applications we work in have external providers.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

So I don’t care if you use Scrum to do that, but it wasn’t giving us the business benefits that we want. We want to manage those dependencies until we can break them. The teams definitely have a culture. Was it leadership? Most non-trivial kinds of companies and applications we work in have external providers.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

And so, we were definitely in a position where we were having to put together constructs that allowed us to connect, legitimately connect, from, “here’s the strategic imperative” to, “here’s the hundreds of people “that are gonna be involved; how do we marry those up? – Yep, yep.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And business architecture kind of a nebulous term, but how do you form teams? we’re agile, we don’t plan agile or we’re agile, so all we’re gonna do is build a backlog and then run off the backlog. They have the ability to produce work infested increments software, and they do sprint planning.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so we ended up with a lot of folks doing standups and sprint planning and story cards and sticky notes and burndown charts and reviews and retrospectives. We want a culture that values responding to change over, following a plan that want to manifest the lines. We want a culture where people take ownership.

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