Selling Value and Creating Safety
I did a post last week called ‘Are People Really Afraid To Change’. If you have a minute, go check it out before you read on… we’ll wait… I’ve never been skydiving. Almost went in my early 20’s, but when the time came to go, I didn’t have any money so I had to stay […]
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Accidental Agility
Thought Exercise One Let’s say for the moment that I am the CIO of a mid-sized company. I have a team of 100 or so people building software. Let’s also say that those 100 people are largely dedicated to 10-15 smaller products, there are few dependencies between those products, and we are currently using traditional […]
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Dependencies Are Evil
It seems inarguable to me that dependencies limit agility. If I am able to make a decision on my own that only involves me, I have full freedom of movement. If I want to go to the local pub for dinner, and on my way, decide that I want to go to a steakhouse, I […]
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The First Critical Steps Toward Scaling Your Software Organization
I’ve noticed a pattern I want to share with you guys. When a company is small, still probably led by it’s founder, likely around 20-40 people… there is a great sense of camaraderie. You’ve got folks that all know each other, all working toward a common goal, all trying to solve the same problems. To a large […]
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Three Things You Need to Know to Transform Any Sized Organization Into an Agile Enterprise #agile2015
Here is my talk from this AM at the #Agile2015 conference. Enjoy!
The Three Things You Need to Know to Transform Any Size Organization Into an Agile Enterprise from Mike Cottmeyer
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3 Thinking Tools for Minimizing Dependencies Between Products
In my post about how to form teams, I talk about products… not in their monolithic, holistic state… but as a subsystem within a larger integrated solutions architecture. In other words, big products are just series of small products that work together in an integrated fashion. Each of these smaller products have a backlog, a […]
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Bend the Spoon
Bend the spoon is a phrase we use quite a bit here at LeadingAgile. I don’t want to hear what’s happening, I want to hear what we need to make happen… and what we are doing to make it happen. I don’t want to hear why we can’t do something, I want to talk about what […]
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Can You Mandate Your Agile Transformation?
Well… it depends. If you view agile as a system of beliefs, or a way of looking at the world, or as a culture your company is expected to adopt…I’d suggest that it’s impossible to mandate an agile transformation. There is no way to force people to believe in something they don’t believe in or to […]
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What It Takes to Develop an Agile Transformation Strategy
Okay… this is going to be a precursor to a more fully developed whitepaper, but I want to see if I can tightly articulate the LeadingAgile approach to designing and executing an enterprise agile transformation. This post is going to focus on the ‘what’ and leave out the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ for the time […]
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Some Thoughts on Agile Transformation in Big Companies
As usual… I’ve gotten a little sidetracked on my Agile 101, 102… series of posts. I’ve got the 201 post half finished, but haven’t been able to spend the time getting over the hump. That said, I want to divert just a little and talk about agile in general, explore some of what it is, […]
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