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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. And I want to go to a topic, I haven’t discussed this with anybody on the podcast, I’ve done business architecture. Listen now. Agile to Agility Website.

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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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What Is An Agile Organization?

Leading Agile

Product Mismanagement. Most organizations fall in one of two buckets regarding their Product Management: Sales-driven, order-taking, and building whatever the customer wants without considering which projects will actually move the needle. Product owners building by directive. Inadequate Strategy Articulation.

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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? For example, teams may have the spirit of agility but be hampered by a poorly designed technical architecture that is not congruent with Agile principles.

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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. The Role of Governance Now, this is what I think about when I think about governance.

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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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