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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.

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So, what is organizational agility? 2022 UPDATE

Scrum.org

Lean and Kanban expert Klaus Leopold says, “Agility is not a team sport; it is a company sport.” work-sustainability. . Organizational agility looks like a pattern of constructive collaboration between people with diverse perspectives. fixing-problems-beyond-influence-of-teams, ?enabling Old fashioned micro-management.

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What is a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and Why is it Needed in Agile?

Agilemania

The CD pipeline is an agile and sustainable technique to produce software, similar to how a minimum viable product lowers risks and helps teams create something that better suits the demands of consumers. In test or behavior-driven development, the ideal method to construct automated tests is to do so as we write new code.

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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

You either change the tool to accommodate the organization or you change the organization and unfortunately, most of the companies that we were dealing with, didn’t have agency or influence to change the organization. But I started writing a lot about what I would do and I started doing talks about what I do. Speaker: Miljan Bajic 32:59.

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Increasing the Value of Your OKRs and KPIs

Leading Agile

We want to create that optionality within the construct of the project where a lot of project prefixed time scope requirements just don’t allow for that. If the whole organization doesn’t have access to it, the sustaining stuff’s hard. Here’s what we have to influence. We want organizational KPIs.

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Agile Unplugged: EP01 | Mike Cottmeyer and Brian Sondergaard

Leading Agile

Poppendieck was an influence for me, no doubt, and several others in those days. But sure, it was heavily influenced by Mary Poppendieck. Okay, so one thing I wanna just give a nod to, it’s like somebody who’s heavily influenced our thinking on this was David Anderson’s stuff around the pre-Kanban stuff.

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Retrospectives and Intraspectives for Agile Practitioners

MPUG

They provide a better understanding and also help us to work sustainably over a long period. Retrospectives are also applicable in flow based Lean-Agile frameworks, e.g., Kanban , where you can have retrospectives on-demand. Retrospectives and intraspectives in Agile development do exactly that. Retrospectives. Types of Retrospectives.

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