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Seeing Your Vision

Leading Agile

When measured against, it forces your business to innovate, continuously improve, and be accountable to progress. Pragmatically, we expect the plan, the roadmap to get there, to adapt to emerging environments and opportunities. A well-constructed vision sets a standard of excellence and expectations for performance.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Business Agility

Leading Agile

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? Innovation, are we able to get feedback from customers and invent products that they want to use, product fit? Is there a product owner?

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

Leading Agile

What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. Here’s how you do sprint planning.

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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 EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

– Well, when you’re trying to build software and the software we were building was, was very innovative and kind of leading edge for organizations. And we’re looking for alignment between what I might say, like the business architecture or the technology architecture and the organizational architecture.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. We want a culture that values responding to change over, following a plan that want to manifest the lines.

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Descaling Your Organization for Faster, Smarter Results with Agile

Leading Agile

Over the last 20-some-odd years, we’ve had a progression of Agile methodologies and a lot of innovation in the Agile methodology space as of late. And when you start to set up your release trains and you start to do your planning, Dean Leffingwell makes an assumption that we’re at about 150 people. Functional silos?

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