Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). Several events, such as “Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective” (quoted from the Scrum Guide). Not documents.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. If you want people to work remotely for weather or health event, they need high bandwidth access in their homes. The developers were in New York, the testers in Vietnam.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. Can you run fast and go deep at the same time?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. Cultural agility is vital because, with over 60 global society cultures identified and numerous variations in regions within the national cultures, it is virtually impossible to be experienced in every situation. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Tell Stories.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2021

The strong agility for workforce changes that most businesses developed during the pandemic will help them respond to similar future crisis if crisis-led learnings and practices are preserved in their organisations. Redefining role of certain business areas such as HR for successful realignment to new requirement for people and talent.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 17, 2024

THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL In a study involving students at a university in Singapore, researchers identified five factors that helped to develop resilience in the face of challenging situations: Approach to coping in adversity – actively seeking ways to solve a problem, rather than avoid it. What impact has it had? Current Psychology, 42, 519-528.

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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. They don't have a program manager (as in Agile and Lean Program Management ). And, because there was a specific marketing event, the managers wanted the teams to complete the work in about six months.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. The faster we learn, the more often we can link the decision to the actual events and decisions that might have created those events. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. For example, IoT and real-time data streaming can help companies optimize their supply chains – enabling them to act in the event disaster strikes or there’s a bottleneck that could cause delays. Intelligent automation. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

1 CoEs are often created to address a lack of cloud skills and capabilities, through development of new approaches and tools, pooling of key resources, and prioritization of resource allocation across different cloud projects. The CoE is then expected to drive common practices and ways of working across the organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 23, 2023

See Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take.) If you talk about how forecasters hone in on a hurricane's location much closer to the event, your manager will probably understand. (See How Long Are Your Iterations, Part 2 ) for these two images and the entire explanation.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Building formal networks of global and local capability and resources with agile guidance from the center. Identifying, selecting, and developing leaders to work in a complex matrix. Engaging both global and local leadership in highly integrated strategic and operating planning processes.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Conduct a retrospective with a timeline of events and how people felt at the time those events occurred. The events are on the top. Those lines are how people experienced the exact same events. This image is a timeline from a real retrospective I facilitated many years ago. The customers loved the product.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for how to use cycle time to reduce the time you spend on estimation.). Some projects —even when people can plan for an entire quarter's worth of product—require frequent kaizen or retrospective events. Note, this is Research and Delivery, not Research and Development!).

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Analogously, the business environment is composed of firms and individuals who compete for limited customer dollars and investment capital and endure a continuously changing landscape resulting from economic, social and political events occurring in the background. Don’t aspire to be perfect – No organism is the perfect creation.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“When Dr. Goldratt came to me and asked, ‘Eli, how long will it take you to develop a new feature’, I hesitated. This accounts for potential traffic delays, long security lines, or other unforeseen events. It helps us begin somewhere rather than getting paralyzed by what we don’t know.

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Cheryl Cran

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The more flexible and agile your mind the more quickly you can adapt to a new change or situation. You and I can’t control world events such as hurricanes or mergers. Part of developing higher disruption tolerance is the ability to discern and stay focused on what you can control. you get the picture.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 25, 2014

Recently I worked with 6300 leaders of AT&T in a series of events and as any organization working towards a 2020 vision of enhanced customer service, increased agility and competitive advantage the one common solution is through the people. How do we shift our mindset?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

While nimble startups chasing the next trend are exciting, the truth is that companies rarely succeed by adapting to market events. That can’t be done through agility alone, but takes years of preparation to achieve. One company that’s become famous for its agility is Google. Agility is overrated.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes were small — the famed “pivot.” Startups now had tools that sped up the search for customers, reduced time to market, and slashed the cost of development.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. A comprehensive internal data platform was developed to help Dr. Reddy’s employees be proactive with their customer requests and solve any problems in an agile way. He was proudly stating that! ” Create safe havens.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Spending on corporate learning, particularly leadership development, continues to increase at a staggering pace. According to one piece of research , spending on frontline leadership development alone increased by over 310% in a three-year period. Pat Canova/Getty Images. Learning departments are frequently part of the problem.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2016

The goal of these conversations should be to develop a common language to help frame examples of how people live out the organization’s values or classical virtues. When has trust made us faster and more agile? Hope: a positive, optimistic expectation of future events. How might character development benefit our company?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Assess candidates against industry benchmarks, valid indicators of executive potential, and the CEO profiles you’ve developed. CEO succession is an ongoing process designed to develop the talent pipeline — not an isolated event. Does he or she possess the agility and courage required to make difficult choices?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow.

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Cheryl Cran

JUNE 28, 2016

They had a dinner and a ‘learn to dance’ event the night before I was to speak and they asked me to join them. I had the opportunity to follow up with Launi post event to interview her on leadership, change leadership and more. We need to be agile and ready to adapt to the ongoing disruptions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

When viability is threatened by demand, supply shocks, regulatory change or competitive developments, they need to decisively transform their business models. They buffer against unexpected events. Modularity also facilitates innovation through recombination and promotes greater agility because of the reduced scale of each unit.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

At Treehouse, an online school that helps companies hire developers and designers, we’re seeing the same problem. But without a real passion for tech, they wouldn’t successfully convert from apprentice to salaried developer. When I took a look at my workforce two years ago, I saw that I hadn’t created a diverse team.

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Cheryl Cran

APRIL 25, 2018

On one hand we have major challenges with world and local events (politics, traumatic events) – on the other we have major progress being made with movements led by change makers (diversity, equality, protection laws). As the entrepreneur economy expands the people with the most developed ‘people skills’ will be the most successful.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 30, 2013

Have you developed a roadmap to follow that contains the action steps you need to execute to implement your business and Internet strategy? Have you positioned yourself for global reach through agility that enables you to eliminate borders and operate globally? I nternational. C onstructive. E xpert.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2017

First, recognize that conflicts at work are usually not one-off events. ” If you’re more attuned to the conflicts that arise in you and around you, you can be more emotional agile. Telling your counterpart that fairness is important to you, for example, is the first step in developing a shared set of values.

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