Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet
Listen to the Agile Unplugged Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to Agile Unplugged on: Welcome to our latest episode of the Agile Unplugged podcast with host Mike Cottmeyer, LeadingAgile’s CEO. In each episode of Unplugged, Mike and a special guest explore LeadingAgile’s freshest ideas, mental models, frameworks, and solutions with the people that […]
UCD and Enterprise Business Agility
Earlier this week, working with clients in a large global organization, I received a question from some folks responsible for design in another area of the organization. They are experts in design but had not yet been exposed to Agile practices at an enterprise level. This was “first contact” with the Transformation for them. Here […]
Creating the Right Conditions for Stable Teams
Transcript So here’s the interesting thing. There’s always going to be a tension, and this is where we got into in pretty good depth in the encapsulation versus orchestration thing. So you have a team, right? And I can do one or two things, right? I can put a person on a team and leave […]
Governance, the Investment Tier, and Business Agility
Reading: Governance, the Investment Tier, and Business Agility Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: In this week’s episode of SoundNotes, Ross Beurmann is back to talk about how to create a funding mechanism that’s as adaptable as the governance model. Or, to put it more simply, how […]
Building An Agile Operating Model That Accelerates ROI
Transcript So early ROI, this often gets expressed differently. What it often gets expressed as is I want to be able to do things faster. They will say things like, “I’m a hint Jeff Sutherland wrote a book.” There was something like twice the work and half the time, right? That kind of a thing. […]
Using Agile To Get Early ROI
So early ROI, this often gets expressed differently. What it often gets expressed as is I want to be able to do things faster. They will say things like, “I’ma a hint Jeff Sutherland wrote a book.” There was something like twice the work and half the time, right? That kind of a thing. So […]
The Physics of Agility: Quality
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: You have to deeply understand how what you’re doing at all levels of the organization is going to drive quality. In this week’s podcast, LeadingAgile CEO Mike Cottmeyer joins us to dig into why increased quality should matter to you, and […]
Forming Teams in an Agile Organization
Agile Transformation Reading: Forming Teams in an Agile Organization When teams aren’t formed in the right way in your organization such that they’re encapsulated to create working tested increment of product in a given time frame, they become a dependency. Without encapsulated teams, you’ll find yourself with many dependencies. And dependencies kill Agility. To watch […]
The Three Things You Need For Agile Transformation
Agile Transformation Reading: The Three Things You Need For Agile Transformation Agile Transformation is fundamentally about Three Things: forming teams, building backlogs, and having the ability to produce working, tested software. If we don’t these Three Things then Transformation fails. To uncover everything you need to know about The Three Things, check out LeadingAgile CEO […]
The Physics of Agility: Predictability
Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: When large organizations set out to take on Agile Transformation, it’s never for Agile’s sake. They’re usually after one or more of these 6 things, Predictability, Quality, Cost Savings, Early ROI, Product Fit, or Innovation. In this week’s episode of LeadingAgile’s […]