Leading Agile

APRIL 20, 2021

For this email, it is assumed that the organization’s technical strategy has been defined and a governance model has been implemented. If neither is true, this email will still be valuable, it will just illustrate that strategy and governance are missing. Solve those problems with your leadership, let me know if I can help.

Cadence 117

Cadence Governance Government Leadership 117

Henny Portman

JULY 26, 2020

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. The classic formulation of agile in the Agile Manifesto has no role for leadership. As stated, the facilitative leadership model contains the triangle rigor, efficiency and alignment (REA).

Software Review 93

Software Review Process Lean Leadership 93

Bridge the Gap Consulting

APRIL 11, 2023

When doing an assessment, ensure this is a CROSS-FUNCTIONAL exercise. Is there any governance in place and if so, how effective is it? Do people feel strategy and supporting governance is effective? Also, look at communication cadence and means by which to share this information. The more input, the better.

PMO 52

PMO Cadence Governance Government 52

Planview

JULY 19, 2023

Most change in organizations is slow and requires careful guidance and thoughtful, consistent leadership to stick. This exercise was not originally planned as a change technique, but it became a real win! From there, the implementation team was ready to tackle the challenges of driving the change across the organization.

Cadence 60

Cadence Executing Initiating Leadership 60

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. Is it the leadership’s responsibility for being agile, right? Is it the teams?

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And all that stuff’s like really super important, but we have this debate internally quite a bit with my leadership team.

2021 62

2021 Agile Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 62