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Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth

Brimstone Consulting

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. The CEO of a family-owned construction company recognized that an outside, objective perspective would be valuable to the future and growth of the company. Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. CASE STUDY.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 4: What Does “Agile” Mean?

Johanna Rothman

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

He thought agile approaches would work to “meet” and “enforce” deadlines. In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Why do you have deadlines? And remotely!)

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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility. I've been part of several construction projects, and they all used an iterative lifecycle.

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1 Leadership Assessment Tool You Need to Try

Organizational Talent Consulting

Development is essential for leaders to thrive in today's turbulent marketplace. However, a stark reality is that employees receive significantly less constructive feedback the higher they move up in an organization. You're either growing or falling behind. If you haven't already, you will want to try a 360-degree assessment.

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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?

LSA Global

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.