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Seeing Your Vision

Leading Agile

Helen Keller never let her physical constraints define her vision. She is referenced as saying, “The only thing that is worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” For Helen Keller, having a vision was much more important than the physical ability to see. Sight vs. Vision. Vision and Potential.

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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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Overcoming Resistance to Change in Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Many organizations we encounter operate in functional silos, have traditional PMOs, and rigid governance and control structures. Imagine a world where the business architecture, business capability model, domain-driven design, product architecture, and key strategies are in alignment.

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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? And so, to some degree, you have to cast a vision for what is possible to change, of course, the vision.

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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. But a lot of times, and you guys know this.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

My observation over the past 20 years of doing Agile and transforming organizations, is that if you address the underlying technical and organizational concerns, you put forth a credible strategy for dealing with dependencies, and governance, and audit and compliance, you can often get people to run an experiment. The technology architecture?

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A Wake-Up Call

Business Borderlines

Neither success nor failure are coincidental , they are the results of your vision, wrong or correct decisions. I guess this is where vision comes in handy! Within both private industry and government agencies, the business analyst is becoming the central figure in leading major change initiatives (1).