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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. 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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What Is An Agile Organization?

Leading Agile

It’s not enough to have a ration of Sprint Planning and a slice of Jira and then call ourselves Agile. However, most impediments are knowable, predictable, and can be approached in a planful way. Product Mismanagement. Product owners building by directive. Antiquated Technology & Business Architecture.

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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? Is there a product owner? Are we doing story point estimating or are we using planning poker? There’s just a lot of stuff to unwind.

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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

I wasn’t actually trying to help anybody get better at software development per se, or product management per se. 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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Agile Unplugged EP05 | Projects to Products | Mike Cottmeyer & Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

What I had been doing was working with business architecture capability models to try to come up with organizational patterns and work breakdown patterns that matched so we could get worked on organizations. And so we kind of had this key insight about the relationship between business architecture and team design and enterprise agile.

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Why Agile Transformation Fails | AgileIndy 2021

Leading Agile

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And business architecture kind of a nebulous term, but how do you form teams? We have to figure out how to install governance.

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