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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

Johanna Rothman

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Creating Agile HR, Part 8: Summary

Johanna Rothman

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. If we think about agile approaches as a way to: Create small, safe-to-fail experiments.

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A Common Tool Trap: the Tool Will Help Your Delivery and Planning Problems

Johanna Rothman

And, they want metrics. See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). Worse, they want to start with a tool. That's never worked. I have nothing against tools.

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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. For example, a leadership competency we measure is the ability to Formulate a Concrete Strategic Vision.

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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Effective Agility: Three Ways to Change Your Team’s Project Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? This is not an agile approach. All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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