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The Benefits of Power Skills for IT Leaders, and How to Build Yours!

The IIL Blog

Successful IT leaders need to develop and lean into a set of power skills. Lacking essential power skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, influence and directiveness can harm both reputation of the IT leadership team and the stability of IT departments. It’s not the 90’s anymore. Effective Communication.

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Lean Change Management – 4 Years Later

Agile Coach

A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. It’s also important to understand what influenced thinking about org change differently. First, How Lean Change Agent Came to Be. on Amazon.ca

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

Justify investing in technical excellence to the leadership by demonstrating the long-term cost savings and increased speed of future feature development due to a more robust and flexible codebase. Apply Lean Thinking : Map the team’s value stream to identify non-value-adding activities.

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The Agile Transformation Coach: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities

Leading Agile

This team of e Agile Transformation Coaches will consist of people focused on executive-level understanding and leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. This role is, in effect, a high-influence peer to the executives who act as a trusted advisor. Lean/Agile Leader.

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Exploring the controversy around SAFe's approach to Product Ownership

Scrum.org

SAFe takes the perspective of learning from experience in the trenches and what patterns organizations are using and applying lean/agile principles as needed to help organizations evolve. Doing this requires figuring out the product architecture and moving towards an empowering leadership style. Why did SAFe make this choice?

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Der NPS ®-Wert von SAFe ® ist -56 — Die Umfrageergebnisse ????

Scrum.org

While there may be valuable concepts to consider within SAFe, my observation of companies trying to adopt it focuses mostly on certification and compliance rather than deepening the understanding of agile principles and values, specifically on the leadership level. Lean UX is neither Lean nor UX; don’t be fooled by the name.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT

Scrum.org

Addressing gold-plating as an organizational issue requires a holistic approach that involves aligning incentives with the delivery of customer value, clarifying prioritization and decision-making processes, fostering a culture that values customer feedback and lean development, and ensuring regular and meaningful engagement with stakeholders.

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