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Fit to Role: Aligning Skills and Job Requirements for Optimal Performance

Effective Managers

The concept extends beyond technical skills to include cultural fit and alignment with organizational values. An employee who resonates with the company’s culture and values is more engaged and motivated, further enhancing productivity. This requires robust HR practices and a deep understanding of organizational culture.

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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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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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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.

Agile 139
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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

Agile 138
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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.

Agile 89
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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business

Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. That’s how it is with practices that don’t quite fit another cultural context. Managing Across Cultures. What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures.

Culture 132