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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

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Relatively new, the balance scorecard was introduced in 1992 by David Norton and Robert Kaplan, by taking existing metric performance measures and adapting them to include nonfinancial information. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth.

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Think top-down and bottom-up for agile transformations

Kiron Bondale

A common approach for major organizational changes is to start at the top with executive leadership, creating a coalition of commitment and support towards a shared vision for the future. Without changing existing portfolio intake practices and performance measures (e.g.

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How to Create a Strategy Map for Your Organization

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If you’re a for-profit organization, then the value proposition can be one of the following: product leadership, customer intimacy or operational excellence. By linking objectives to performance measures, your strategy map helps you have specific, measurable and actionable objectives.

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Lost in Communication and Collaboration — Scrum Anti-Patterns Taxonomy (2)

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Lack of leadership support hinders collaboration. Misaligned Metrics and Reporting The “Misaligned Metrics and Reporting” anti-patterns category refers to the inconsistencies, errors, and misalignments in metrics, performance measures, planning, and reporting when applying Scrum. Lack of research tasks.

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Are your project team members “quiet quitting”?

Kiron Bondale

When we are considering operational work, quiet quitting is putting in the least effort to perform the standard responsibilities of one’s role such that required performance measurements are met. But what does this look like for team members working on projects?

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Helping functional managers through an agile transformation

Kiron Bondale

As Tony Robbins would say, “ Where focus goes, energy flows “ If we haven’t updated performance measures for functional managers and their staff, it will be much harder to encourage them to change. Metrics aren’t the sole driver of behavior but they do draw a lot of focus.

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Understanding the Organizational Governance System as Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Leadership, psychological safety, and project governance define how structure, mentality, and culture impact achieving success through projects and organizational objectives. In the broader context of business and leadership, organizational governance systems emerge as a pillar of importance.