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

The IIL Blog

Issues like discrimination were prevalent and the knowledge or desire for inclusive strategies was absent or ignored. Holistic Success Metrics: Expand success metrics beyond finance and output. Hierarchy and traditional leadership stereotypes often from more military inspired, command and control structures, were strictly adhered to.

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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager. It is possible to plan finances for the year while being crystal clear on strategic objectives and achieving them. One definition of strategy is the alignment of necessarily finite resources against potentially unlimited aspirations. Everything after that is chaos.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It is made up of people who have an interest in the project: representatives from each of the key stakeholder communities, who meet on a regular basis to provide direction, authority to proceed and to decide on the strategy for the project. It’s fine to have a different cadence at different points in the project lifecycle.

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

Lean Portfolio Management: Achieving business agility requires a modernized approach to portfolio management that aligns strategy, financing and operations by applying lean agile principles. This requires collaboration and alignment of processes.

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Project242: Build Strength in Multiple Areas, Not Just a Few

Bridge the Gap Consulting

These workouts include heavy tension and faster cadence at lower resistance. Here are some of the key things I’ve learned in addition to project management, building those other “professional muscles”: Strategy : This was a HUGE eye opener. Those strategies turned into projects. Sweat will be drippin’!!

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12 Incredible Reasons You Should Get a SAFe® Agile Certification

Agilemania

They are prepared to align strategy and execution for the entire organization. Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning. A SAFe Agile certification teaches you the skills of Lean Portfolio Management and Lean finance to make decisions based on economics and estimation. Decentralize decision making.

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Shift from Annual to Continuous Planning to Enable Agility [Webinar]

Planview

See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. Yet, as soon as you begin to figure out exactly how the plan is to be executed, change happens.