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Recharge to Reach the Finish Line: A Leader’s End-of-Year Strategy

The IIL Blog

This rhythm of exertion and recovery resonates deeply with the cadence of leadership in business. Just as the runner needs to rest to prevent injuries, we, as leaders, need to champion moments of respite to sustain our teams and ourselves.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

The three systems include a System of Delivery, a System of Transformation, and a System of Sustainability. – [Announcer] This is Mike Cottmeyer’s talk from Agile Arizona, The Executive’s Guide to Large-Scale Agile Transformation and Sustaining an Adaptive Enterprise. Transcript. Transcript.

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Cultivating the Kind of Culture Employees Crave

Leading Agile

We take pride in being fearless, adaptive, sustainable, and egalitarian, and we admire attributes like integrity, respect, teamwork, and passion for continued learning. . The Pods meet on an agreed-upon cadence, and everyone in each Pod knows that they can reach out to other Pod members for questions, help, and a friendly voice.

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Agency utilization rate: 9 steps to increasing billable time

Resource Guru

If your utilization rate shows that project owners responsible for the account are consistently overbooked, it might be why projects are lagging, missing deadlines, or double booking appointments. A rising, sustainable rate might signal it’s time to outsource work, hire more staff, or expand services.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

What do you do with planning cadences? And so, I built a relationship with this dev director that I was working with and he and I would collaborate and I was reading books and you know, reading all the Kent Beck stuff, [unsure 03:48]. How do you go up into Portfolio Management? What do you do with audit and compliance?

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. There was almost no discussion of the importance of teaming strategies to the methodology. It is possible to do Scrum by the book and not create the results. Same for XP.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And so like in some of the early I think it was maybe it was Merrifield book rework or maybe it came from your HBR article I can’t remember. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – It’s not a capability.

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