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How to Avoid the Churn That Comes with Agility

Harvard Business

Leaders today know that they need to be agile — to change direction quickly in the face of changing or uncertain conditions. But a byproduct of agility is churn: The confusion and demotivation that comes from many such pivots. This can cause inefficiency that bogs down innovative projects and strategies.

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An Agile Approach to Change Management

Harvard Business

Six lessons on moving quickly under pressure.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. For these reasons, modern crisis teams are turning from command-and-control systems to more adaptive, agile approaches.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 1, Serial Lifecycles

Johanna Rothman

Are you trying to make an agile framework or approach work? Maybe you've received a mandate to “go agile.” Or, maybe you're trying to fit an agile framework into your current processes—and you've got a mess. I've seen plenty of problems when people try to adopt “agile” wholesale.

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Top 15 PMO tools for your business in 2025

Epicflow

Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid). Jira Jira is a widely used project management software, particularly well-suited for Agile teams in the IT sector. While Jira excels at bug tracking, its usability for broader project management tasks or non-development use cases may present challenges.

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How to Do Agile Change Management

LSA Global

Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. That is good news from a change management consulting perspective.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

The missing link between great intentions and great results is often a little talked-about leadership trait - emotional agility and courage. The fact is that businesses are not generally safe places for people--even when there is great leadership.

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