The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

The events of 2020 have undoubtedly shaken things up in the world of consulting firm content production. From our unique position looking across the whole thought leadership landscape, we believe there are some key trends that will help to shape 2021. Here are our top three: A more agile mindset. A more collaborative approach.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. In an environment of sustained, systemic disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, V12 is thriving. Andy points to agile strategy as the backbone of the company’s success. Agile Strategy. Agile strategy is fast, flexible, and time competitive.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

Those people suffered from several problems—most of which was based on the system of rewards in the organization (part of the context): Because of their power, they were “on the hook” to deliver something we could not deliver. Mostly because of their positional power and the reward system.). I would have disagreed.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. I want it now. How fast can I get it?”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2019

Most of my clients struggle with their agile transformation. The teams love agile approaches because they can work on their release frequency and technical excellence. The senior managers love the agile promise because they can see how agile approaches help the teams release a more constant flow of value.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

Leadership is a lot like a ropes course – you are confronted with challenge after challenge, each one testing your skills and giving you an opportunity for personal development and team growth. In this series, we are looking at elements of “The Leadership Ropes Course” that all leaders need to face – and master!

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. When I work with leaders, I hear reasons like this: I was the original architect or product manager or developer, so I know the most about the system (or product). See Insubordination vs Caring About the System. This is a part of the series of leadership tips.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. 5 Key strategic thinking leadership competencies A leader's ability to question and make connections between ideas and evaluate options improves strategic thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I delivered the first version of my Free Your Agile Team talk at Agile New England. I spoke about the problem of a framework-first approach to transforming to an agile culture. I based the talk on Create Your Successful Agile Project , but I didn’t stop there.). (I Yes, there are 8 parts!).

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you use these delegation ideas, you will find you have time to have one-on-ones every week or two, depending on how agile your team is. And now we get to the sticky part—what the leadership thinks they pay you for. Do you want to do more technical work or leadership work? You will also have time to think.

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

I’m tired of hearing about how much business and leadership is going to change in the “World 2.0.” Not to be left out of the rush to platitudes, the Darden business school at the University of Virginia enjoins us to “get back to BASICS,” their acronym for Bonding, Agility, Safety, Inclusion, Compassion, and Strategic Alignment.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When you're starting off as a consultant, you might take the first one or two engagements a client offers. A potential client wanted to engage many coaches with “deep” agile and lean experience. Each team was supposed to use a “standard” agile approach. It's wrong for the client. It's wrong for you.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop. Agile Transformation is a Journey, Part 6.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for an action learning program entitled Leading Leaders for Senior Executives.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. Working with the technology organization leadership, Brimstone designed a comprehensive, integrated approach to create context-specific solutions for the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can apply lean and agile thinking to management actions—especially decisions. We discussed many ideas about agile management in the podcast: You can count “done” things (as opposed to estimating from the requirements up), both to understand a team's capacity and for the project portfolio.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. At this stage, we upload the client’s existing data from your current systems or spreadsheets into the Epicflow system and adjust it depending on the company’s needs and requirements.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To navigate these challenges successfully, many medium-sized companies are turning to business consulting services. In this article, we will explore the manifold benefits of working with business consultants and the various areas in which they provide invaluable assistance.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recommends that leaders take regular Clarity Breaks. My leadership team? a normal part of our leadership activities. As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

I explained in Leadership Tip #8 that measuring happiness was a lost cause because happiness is a function of more than just work. ” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. The build system takes too long. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a leadership action learning program called Action Learning for Leading Leaders.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

But Weber also warned that, unfettered, bureaucracy could create a soulless “iron cage,” trapping people inside dehumanizing systems and limiting their potential. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®) recommends that leaders take regular Clarity Breaks. My leadership team? a normal part of our leadership activities. As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. The teams focus on their work.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. And, great agile teams often have HR support near the team, if not part of the team. See Part 2.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. Measurements Helped Everyone See the System. However, he only created happy-path functional tests to see how his code worked with the rest of the system.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. Determining if your system is truly “unified” starts with looking at your core processes to determine if they’re working. This leads to poor visibility, inefficient processes, and, worst of all, inaccurate data.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As we coach businesses using the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®), we help our clients consider each component in turn. For example, Mary Kay’s purpose is “to give unlimited opportunity to women,” and EOS Worldwide has defined their niche as “helping entrepreneurial leadership teams gain traction.”. It gets you excited.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 23, 2020

Acme has been working towards agility for the last couple of years. and in Create Your Successful Agile Project. What problems does this system solve? What problems could this system create? They don't have a program manager (as in Agile and Lean Program Management ). What if you're like this organization, Acme?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Managers remove systemic impediments. That means we have to change the reward system for managers early enough in an agile transformation to make it easy for the managers to succeed.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2021

We talk a lot about self-organizing teams when we talk about agility. Because especially agile teams might want to experiment with these practices on a regular basis. Instead, when we are responsible “to,” we create a system of work that more people tend to enjoy. I haven't met too many self-organizing teams.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Component teams are a system problem. This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product. My objective is to help the organization increase the flow of work through the system. Often, lower finished feature flow.).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products. Hmm, I might need to write a post about supposedly agile teams and their costs to fix defects.). Developers and testers do their best work inside the system.

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