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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. It’s not the 90’s anymore. Effective Communication.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. This approach stifles agility and innovation, leading to a feature factory mindset that focuses on executing predefined plans rather than adapting to change. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives.

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Why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete. You can’t bully your way into innovation.

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A story of why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete. You can’t bully your way into innovation.

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Where does Scrum Master END and Agile Leader BEGIN? Differences/similarities

Scrum.org

They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. Scrum.org offers a scrum with Kanban workshop and scrum with UX workshop as well. If you are doing some other kind of Lean Agile, you might be using Kaizen, where you agree to continually improve or continuously improve.

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5 Ways to Advocate the Scrum Values for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Courage Courage in Scrum embodies the agile team's strength to tackle challenging tasks, voice concerns, and innovate despite uncertainty. Lean focuses on delivering value to the customer through optimizing resources, eliminating unnecessary tasks, and improving the development process.

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The Agile Transformation Coach: Understanding the Roles and Responsibilities

Leading Agile

This team of e Agile Transformation Coaches will consist of people focused on executive-level understanding and leadership, people that teach team-level technical practices, and everything in between. The TL partners with and works alongside the C-Suite to create innovative and customized solutions to meet the business’ needs.