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Leadership Futures from the Next Generation: Adapting, Empowering, Thriving

The IIL Blog

Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to personally coach leaders and executives across a range of industries. The executives and leaders I collaborate with acknowledge that, in their contexts, large-scale transformation events are becoming less common. They just want to have the ‘ladder held for them’, while they try.

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How We Reduced Cycle Time from 164 Days to 8 Days in 6 Months

Scrum.org

EXECUTIVE REPORTING: How was the progress reported to executive management that is used to Gantt Charts type reporting? We also built on-demand dashboards that include trends in the indicators Executives cared about the most…. CADENCE & RELIABILITY. CADENCE: What was the sprint cadence you folks started off with?

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How effective are your agile ceremonies?

Kiron Bondale

The Scrum Guide calls sprints the heart of Scrum as these time boxes set the cadence for all other events. To gauge whether this ceremony is more than just a frequent “lessons learned” session, we could track the ratio of improvement ideas generated compared with how many were actually executed and provided expected benefits.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

The challenge of integrating an intricate methodology into your project execution might be intimidating, yet it is essential to optimize project delivery and align with business and stakeholder values while avoiding unnecessary complexity in your workflow. It also supports cadence synchronization for the creation of project deliverables.

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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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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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Maintain a sense of change urgency through agility

Kiron Bondale

According to John Kotter’s model for leading change, the first step to overcoming inertia requires us to instill a sense of true urgency in those we need to support, implement and sustain the change. The specific cadence varies based on the complexity and duration of a transformation.

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