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In Organizational Agile Change Management , Culture Comes Last
courtesy @opensourceway Here at LeadingAgile, we have a specific cycle for achieving organizational Agile change management. In short, to make real substantive organizational change, you need to attack...
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Bottom-Up Implementation and Top-Down Intent in Agile Transformations
When dealing with complex agile transformations in large enterprises, use bottom-up implementation and top-down intent. Mike introduced this “bottom-up implementation and top-down intent” concept in a...
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Going Agile
I coach for a living. I coach companies through the journey of their agile transformation. I love what I do, and I love seeing the joy people experience when their transformation journey yields...
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Agile Transformation … Learning What Doesn’t Work Is The Key To Success
I was teaching a private class a few weeks ago and a student in the class mentioned that his company had “already failed at Agile three different times.” The way the statement was phrased really struck...
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The Emperor Has No Clothes: A Theory of Transformation
From Wikipedia: “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their...
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The Flying Trapeze
I’ve never attempted to try the trapeze. I have friends that do it and love it, but I’m not so sure it’s for me. I’m pretty adventurous about many things, but flying around at what seems like 100ft...
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Thinking Differently About Agile Transformation: The “LeadingAgile Way”
Since coming onboard with LeadingAgile, I am continuously learning more about Agile Transformation and the market for our services. Each day, I learn something new about why companies choose to work...
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Should the PMO go away?
When I go in to do large scale transformations I’m invariably asked the question, “should the PMO go away?’ The reasoning is that going agile should get rid of all of the oversight, the Gantt Charts,...
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Why not just define the solution in advance?
If you’re familiar with our model of organizational transformation, then you know we’re fond of the metaphor of taking a journey in a specific direction, possibly (but not necessarily) ending up at the...
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Agile 2017 – Esther Derby
Esther Derby led two sessions at Agile 2017 – Creating an Environment for Successful Agile Teams and Change Artist Super Powers: Leading Change in an Agile Manner. In this interview Esther and Dave...
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Agile 2017 – Adam Weisbart – Surviving Backdraft
Adam Weisbart led a session at Agile 2017 called “Surviving Backdraft (or How to Not Die in a Hellish Explosion of Dysfunction)”. During his session, Adam shared some personal experiences with...
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Agile Transformations Explained with Mike Cottmeyer
LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer led two sessions at Agile 2017: “Agile Transformations Explained” and “Faster Food and a Better Place to Sleep: Applying Agile Outside of Software“. In this...
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Hacking Agile for Digital Agencies 2017 Digital PM Summit
This is a short video explaining the new tool I introduced at the 2017 Digital PM Summit. The session I led was called Hacking Agile for Digital Agencies and the canvas tool I built for the session is...
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Student Q&A: Agile In a Few Weeks & Correcting Developer Behavior w/ Tom...
In this week’s SoundNotes, LeadingAgile’s Tom Churchwell and Matt Fischer join Dave to respond to two questions submitted by students of our Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner...
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Student Q&A: How PBIs get into the Product Backlog & Tips for Moving from...
In this week’s podcast, LeadingAgile’s Jim Hayden and Tim Wise join Dave to respond to questions submitted by students from our CSM and CSPO classes: Question 1: How PBIs Get Into The Product Backlog...
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Transforming a Long-Standing Traditional Organization to Agile with Derek...
In this week’s episode of SoundNotes, Derek Huether and Dave Prior respond to a question from a student who works in a long-standing supply chain organization that wants to move to Agile, but has...
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The Evolving Role of an Agile Coach with Mike Cottmeyer
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Soundcloud RSS As organizations continue to grow and evolve in their practice of...
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The Importance of Empathy in Agile w/ Tim Wise
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts Google Play Spotify Soundcloud RSS After co-teaching a CSM class in Atlanta earlier this week, Tim Wise...
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Is Culture Really the Problem? w/ Mike Cottmeyer
“Culture is just the boogeyman people use when they don’t know how to articulate an organizational change management strategy that executives will buy into.” ~ Mike Cottmeyer In this episode of...
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Agile 2017 – Adam Weisbart – Surviving Backdraft
Adam Weisbart led a session at Agile 2017 called “Surviving Backdraft (or How to Not Die in a Hellish Explosion of Dysfunction)”. During his session, Adam shared some personal experiences with...
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