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Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1

Johanna Rothman

I see many teams and team members who say, “Agile stinks. ” When I ask people what's happening, they say: We're doing an agile death march because someone else already told us what we have to do and the date it's due. And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.)

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A Contrarian’s Perspective on Agile Mindset, Behaviors, Culture

Johanna Rothman

We often hear that agile is a mindset. That we need to change our thinking to use agility. Our culture defines our environment. Define Mindset, Behaviors, Culture. We need behaviors if we want an agile culture. The culture is a combination of: How people treat each other. Is that correct?

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Governance: Transforming Organizational Culture

Tom Spencer

Effective governance can serve as the bedrock of organizational culture, which shapes perceptions, attitudes, and interactions throughout the organisational hierarchy, between departments, and within project teams. This article aims to shed light on the power of governance and how to create a transformative governance structure.

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Agile Transformation: See Your System and Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

If you read my scaling agile series , you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. If you don’t also address the cultural problems of rewards, you won’t continue with your agile transformation. See Your Organization as a System.

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How to See Business Agility: Adaptable and Resilient Management Actions

Johanna Rothman

More of my clients say they want business agility. Yet, we don't share a common definition of business agility. Actions matter when it comes to business agility. However, everyone works as part of a system. That system doesn't allow just any action. The system rewards and punishes specific actions.

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Define Agile Behaviors We Want to Reinforce in an Agile Career Ladder, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

I said that when we focus on individual achievements and deliverables, we ignore the agile system of work. Worse, when we reward individual achievements we prevent an agile culture. That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. Agile Behaviors for Learning and Working Together.

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Enjoy an Agile Coffee About Modern Management

Johanna Rothman

I had a great time on the Agile Coffee podcast, 75. We spoke about a variety of issues that managers, teams, and people encounter, such as: Culture and how that plays out at all levels. How the reward system might offer perverse incentives. Managing with Coffee. We had a great time and a wide-ranging conversation.

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