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A Q&A with Employee #8: Scaling a Start-Up Into a Sustainable Business

LiquidPlanner

When I was approached by our blog team to contribute an article for Women in Tech Week, I knew immediately what my contribution would be. Well, with my double major in Business and Art History, I never thought I’d be building technology products! Let’s go back in time 10 years, what were the early days of LiquidPlanner like?

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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

Giving up one's capacity for innovation to third parties (subcontractors) whose interests are divergent has consequences: interdependence, technical debt, lack of innovation, suboptimal delivery frequency, quality issues, and loss of sovereignty over key skills. Sovereignty over the value chain is a competitive advantage.

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21st Century Leadership - Prologue

Scrum.org

A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. 21st-century executive leadership, what to stop doing . Discussions were mostly bilateral, most were online, some were face to face. And we have so many models, so what should we stop doing? .

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You Can Make a Difference at Work: 7 Steps for The Climate

The IIL Blog

THE 7 PLLANET TENETS The tenets spell “pllanet” with two l’s: Purpose Language Less Ask Net Zero Equity Time We’ll review each tenet by sharing how Molly, the IT professional introduced at the beginning of this article, applied each step to her IT team’s transformation. For example, “sustainable” can mean “ongoing, consistent.”

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

Inloox

Large corporations in particular, which are in urgent need of more agility due to entrenched structures, usually have the hardest time implementing an agile transformation. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. But it’s not that easy.

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Measuring the value of business agility - your questions answered

Scrum.org

Question: During an Enterprise Agility Transformation, there is often a tendency to strive for quick, short term financial gains, or other performance improvements; can you provide examples on how to find that balance to achieve longer-term sustainable growth? DW - That is true at the enterprise, department, product, and team level.

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

From the top down, the entire organization must be committed to sustaining quality improvements for them to be achieved. Leadership is critical. Control: In order to make sure that these improvements are sustainable, monitor them by creating a control plan. For one, it doesn’t incorporate information technology.

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