A key to improving the impact of your IT portfolio operations is identifying the things you need to stop doing!
In this video, Transformation Coaches Randy Hale and Sally Tait discuss how to:
Companies needing to compete and win with less time, fewer resources, and more pressure to deliver can find massive benefits by implementing and running a lean portfolio. Organizations are often overloaded with competing priorities and more demand than capacity, so how do you decide what to focus on, when?
During this webinar Agile Transformation Coaches David Gipp and Colleen Johnson discussed:
A product organization can rapidly innovate and iterate because they are focused on customer experience, evolving requirements, and strategic differentiation.
This is one of the reasons why organizations are shifting from project to product thinking. In this video, you’ll learn how shifting from a project to a product organization enables people to create products with greater quality and improve employee engagement.
Transformation Coaches Randy Hale and Marc Story discuss…
Improve value delivery, higher quality, and collective ownership.
If you are interested in learning more about project to product transformations, please contact us.
According to Airlines for America, U.S. passenger airlines incurred $35B in net losses in 2020 because of the pandemic. During a pandemic filled with uncertainty with more changes ahead, organizations need the ability to be nimble and pivot as needed.
For the past few years, Southwest Airlines has been building Agile capabilities within their organization to adapt to any challenge thrown their way. Their agility was put to the test when air travel halted in 2020 and continues to be challenged as the pandemic evolves. In this webinar recording, Southwest Airlines IT leaders, Katie Morris and Marty Garza, sat down with David Hawks to discuss how their Agile transformation helped Southwest prepare for the biggest pivot yet and the lessons they learned along the way.
In this video we cover:
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Is there such a thing as a perfect time to do an Agile transformation? What should you be thinking about and considering? What needs to go in your Agile transformation plan?
In this recording from Agile Denver @ Scale Enterprise Agile meetup, David Hawks and Eric Cussen discuss:
Agile transformations are either never-ending, constantly restarting, or “finished” before they have started to impact business results. This has created transformation fatigue for many individuals and organizations. In this video, David Hawks shares 6 keys to a successful Agile transformation.
He explores how leaders can guide their organizations past common Agile transformation challenges and accelerate momentum towards true organizational agility and lasting business results.
Key takeaways include:
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In this SAFe® Agile transformation webinar recording, Mapping Business Outcomes to SAFe, Mike Hall, Senior Agile Coach and SPC5, discusses how to ensure your SAFe transformation achieves desired business outcomes. Watch the video to discover the missing “connective tissue” that ties your business objectives to the underlying framework.
View the full slide deck, here.
If you are interested in the Path to Agility cards, learn about our certification process, here.
Learn more about our approach to SAFe Agile transformations, here.
Business leaders have seen enough to believe that agility is the path to better business results. An empirical model that builds in continual improvement and consistent measures? That’s a powerful promise and explains why Agile is attractive. So attractive, in fact, that it’s hard to find a company today that doesn’t claim it’s agile or going agile.
Our experience and research have shown that the vast majority of organizations who take on an Agile transformation will either experience “superficial agility” which usually results in failure and reverting back to old, ineffective behaviors, or “pocket agility,” where some things may improve, but falls short of the true organizational improvements needed to be more resilient. Companies are stuck in transformation with no way out.
This is why we created the Path to Agility — a proven framework designed to help guide organizations through their Agile transformation journey. It helps by providing a clear approach for identifying the capabilities necessary to move forward and the visibility needed to resolve obstacles along the way.
The Path to Agility is designed for change agents and leaders who need to improve transformation consistency, quality, and results. For example:
Using business outcomes as a “north star,” the Path to Agility helps both teams and organizations evaluate where they are on the journey to business agility and map out what they should focus on next. It equips organizations with a simple yet powerful roadmap to profoundly better business outcomes.
What, if anything, about the way people are leading today needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment where we’re faced with seemingly intractable challenges and an insatiable demand for innovation? from Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts
Agile Velocity hosted a series of online conversations exploring the most crucial leadership questions of the day.
Each session included a panel of distinguished guests who provided their honest and hard-won perspectives.
Related podcasts include:
Recorded webinar available via the Agile Uprising Podcast
Bill is a sought-after international thought leader and author of Leadership Agility. He focuses on the new mindsets and skillsets that leaders need for a new business environment that is complex, uncertain, and very fast-paced.
Recorded webinar available via the Agile Uprising Podcast
Dave Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy and decision making. He has pioneered a science-based approach to organizations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience, and complex adaptive systems theory. He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on a range of subjects and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style.
Andrea Tomasini is one of the founders of agile42. His background includes experience in product development, system architecture, business, and strategic analysis, lean coaching, organizational change, and agile leadership. Andrea has trained and coached a diverse range of teams and helped many companies in various industries in implementing agile methods like Scrum. These days, Andrea works primarily as a Strategic Coach, supporting Agile Leaders in the process of transforming their organization, strategy, and culture to achieve greater agility and resilience. Being an international expert in the area of Agile Leadership, he is currently pioneering data capture and analysis methods in complex organizational structures and working on a book on ORGANIC agility.
Listen to the recorded webinar via the Agile Uprising Podcast
Lyssa Adkins is an internationally-acclaimed, inspiring coach and teacher. Her current focus is on improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching.
Carolyn Dragon is an engaging and highly talented coach, facilitator, and presenter. Visionary, enthusiastic, and grounded in results, Carolyn is a leader in learning, growing, and inspiring women’s personal and professional leadership development.
Lyssa and Carolyn co-lead TENWOMENSTRONG – a group that brings together circles of dynamic and inspiring women leaders to live their life on purpose.
Listen to the recorded webinar via the Agile Uprising Podcast
Expert on adaptive leadership, former submarine commander, and author of Amazon #1 Best Seller: Turn the Ship Around!, Captain David Marquet imagines a workplace where everyone engages and contributes their full intellectual capacity, where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work, and where everyone is a leader.
Andy Worshek is a keynote speaker, guest contributor, and Intent-Based Leadership expert. He served with Captain Marquet on the USS Sante Fe as Combat Systems Department Chief, later advancing to Chief of Boat on the USS Cheyenne.
Planning and executing an Agile scaling strategy is difficult. During my time as an Agile Coach, I’ve guided enterprises through successful Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) implementation–but it wasn’t all daffodils and roses.
In this webinar recording, Mike Hall shares some of the hard lessons he’s learned in guiding organizations through planning and executing a SAFe implementation. Mike includes real-world examples of when and how teams and organizations struggled and how we worked together to reach successful outcomes.
View the full slide deck here: