Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future. The post Agile Strategy Enables Significant Growth appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. CASE STUDY.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. They keep customers happier.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid). Jira Jira is a widely used project management software, particularly well-suited for Agile teams in the IT sector. Define the framework your PMO follows or seeks to follow: whether its Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, or other methodology. Audit trails for accountability and transparency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? I wasn't there, but maybe that's why the Snowbird group created the Manifesto. If you read these books, you could understand project-based agility.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

This time, we’ve prepared updates that will prove useful for those who work in an Agile environment, use Jira + Epicflow integration as well as those dealing with manufacturing, machine building, and other complex phased projects. back-end and front-end developers, QA engineers, etc.).

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

Enhanced Organizational Agility If there’s one thing that the pandemic showed us, it’s that adapting to changing market dynamics is essential. Remaining agile, innovative, and competitive in a rapidly changing business landscape can make a world of difference. For some, this can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I discussed the origins of the agile approaches in Part 5. In this post, I'll discuss how you can create an agile approach that fits your context. Why should you create your own agile approach? You deserve an agile approach that helps you achieve the business outcomes you need. What do you need? Start with the Team.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Building on a relationship that dates back to 2004, Zurich Insurance Group is working with DXC to move from traditional data center outsourcing to a Platform as a Service model, taking advantage of next-generation cloud management technologies to lower operating costs and accelerate development. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 19, 2024

This transformation involves not only adjusting to new realities like remote work and digital transformation but also developing key traits such as agility and empathy. Agility: Adapting to Change If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that change is constant and often unpredictable. Or send me an email.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Definition of a Team at Work While many groups are called “teams,” not every working group needs to behave like a team to achieve their objectives. In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 17, 2020

I do not recommend a group chat using your cell phones. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I discussed the two competing theories of communication. Read Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 6: Creating the Agile Organization for a more complete definition of the model or Change is Inevitable on my other blog.).

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 15, 2019

After Mark Kilby and I collaborated on From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we decided to start creating online classes. We have just opened registration for our first geographically distributed agile teams class. See Prepare for Successful Distributed Agile Teams. It's a self-study class. Any questions?

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The backspace represents agility—the ability to pivot, revise, and improve. By focusing on these two often-overlooked keys, we can draw powerful lessons about business agility, the importance of pace, and the willingness to revise for success. Business Lesson : Mistakes are inevitable.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Wiser: Getting beyond groupthink to make groups smarter. In the case of Secure Act 2.0, employers, advisors, platforms, systems providers, investment managers). Sunstein, Cass R.,

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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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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. Sometimes, especially with IT groups, they need to collaborate with their customers. We had a blast. That’s me.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. I recommend a working group of 3-5 people. Educate them.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

To address this: Use control groups: Compare performance between trained and untrained employees or teams. Here are some strategies to overcome common obstacles: Isolating L&D Impact One of the biggest challenges in measuring L&D impact is isolating the effects of training from other factors that might influence performance.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. If we think about agile approaches as a way to: Create small, safe-to-fail experiments.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Without knowing why you want to use agile approaches throughout the organization, you can’t generate reasonable measurements.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. You might work for one of these companies and they want to use an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we differentiated between these types of teams: Collocated, as all the people are within 8-16 m of each other. For the rest of this post, since we're talking about agile teams, let's assume each team has one manager. See the Allen Curve above.).

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Now, these things are crucial to boosting business agility and enabling “citizen developers.” In the future, augmentation will be extended to larger groups, enabling multiple users to access augmented information with the touch of a finger.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2017

What does the team think—do they think they need more brainstorming time in their smaller groups or as a larger team? I often timebox this to 7 minutes. Add up all the features in this feature set. If so, another 7 minutes to brainstorm. (I I prefer smaller teams, but that’s me.) Then do the duplicate removal/split again.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 27, 2016

Stand-up meetings have become a routine part of the workday in many organizations, spread largely by the adoption of agile and other innovative management methods. They can be effective in certain circumstances and research has shown that they can boost group productivity. I’m not advocating eliminating the stand-up meeting.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Yet they are often masks for deeper feelings that we could and should describe in more nuanced and precise ways, so that we develop greater levels of emotional agility , a critical capability that enables us to interact more successfully with ourselves and the world (more on emotional agility in my new book of the same name, available here ).

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

This is confirmed by the recent PMI Pulse of the Profession report — they’ve found that companies that give particular importance to soft skills (or how they call them “power skills”) achieve better project outcomes and have higher levels of project management maturity and organizational agility [3].

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Decision makers at the top of the organization must be aware of these core, underlying cultural differences as the most critical, initial step for building cultural competence and agility at the enterprise level. Do a cultural inventory.

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