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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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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

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“Agile Coaching” Is Not the Goal

Johanna Rothman

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. These questions have nothing to do with a “better agile” or “better Scrum.”

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Accelerate to recovery with senior leadership team alignment

Brimstone Consulting

Aligning your senior leadership team will help drive the results needed to move your organization forward through recovery. The alignment of the senior leadership team impacts growth, performance, profitability, and the ability of an organization to navigate change and disruption. Ownership ensures accountability and execution.

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Accelerate results in your first 90 days

Brimstone Consulting

The board, leadership team, employees, shareholders – they all are at once excited and anxious about the impact a new leader will have on the organization, the bottom line, and what the change in leadership means for them as individuals. The pressure on leaders to execute and deliver results has arguably never been greater.

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

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

The metrics also changed. More than 20% of employees took the training online or in workshops in the first few months of the program, and employee submissions to its sales lead and job candidate referral programs were up 43% and 19% respectively. The results?