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Fun Discussion with Luke Pivac About Agility and Employment

Johanna Rothman

Luke Pivac, a colleague from New Zealand, interviewed me last week. That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Here's the video: We discussed several topics: My recent Unemployed Agilists posts. I hope you enjoy this one.

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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Organizational Talent Consulting

Census data confirms cultural diversity is growing faster than predicted, especially among Gen Z. A competitive talent landscape, technological advances, and global population shifts are rapidly increasing cultural diversity in the workplace. Cross-cultural differences require leaders with cultural agility.

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Agilent Technologies, separating from Hewlett Packard, turned to Deloitte to help facilitate the transaction and Deloitte in turn asked Steve Pratt to act as project lead. Soon, Pratt and Joshi talked and Agilent became the first client Deloitte served using a global delivery model (GDM). Agile Enterprise. Digital Marketing.

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Agile Practice Guide Interview with Mike Griffiths

Johanna Rothman

Last year, I was part of a geographically distributed team who wrote the Agile Practice Guide. Shane Hastie interviewed us during Agile 2017. His interview (which was a ton of fun!) is here: Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths on the Agile Alliance/PMI Agile Practice Guide.

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How Interview Questions Reveal the True Organizational Assumptions & Culture, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Note: This is a terrible interview question because it's hypothetical. Agility requires a collaborative cross-functional team. Not one person.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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173: Anthony Willoughby—How to Lead Your Organization With Trust And Courage

On the Brink Podcast

I was introduced to Anthony Willoughby by Diana Wu David after our podcast interview. As you will hear, Anthony grew up in Africa, wandered the world, and much like an anthropologist , learned how to observe, listen and learn from different cultures, particularly nomadic tribe s. She said, “You just must meet Anthony.

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