As a leader, you must guide your organization through the turmoils of the transformation and promote the right behaviors and practices
Several organizations have embarked on their Agile Transformation Journey. Majority of the global organizations have outsourced some parts of their work to one or more vendors and service providers. As organizations focus on increasing Enterprise Agility and Agile methods becomes mainstream, organizations are struggling with the problem of integrating the vendor teams into their Agile way of working.
Agile project management methodologies have provided a proven framework that has empowered countless software development companies to deliver releases rapidly, that cater their and their customer's needs.
What is Scaling Agile?Scrum & XP were developed for small team environment where there was freedom to explore and innovate and most of the problems could be managed at team level. However, when we want to scale Agile to Enterprise level, Scrum and XP falls short, as usually teams are distributed, we need a bit of architecture, need more levels of planning, execution, demo, and retrospect, co-ordination across teams, more people (servant leaders) to solve enterprise level impediments, big room planning to accommodate all people across teams, frequent integration across teams, more product management as we need to deal with more requirements and need ‘Systems thinking’ kind for holistic approach.
Early days of her career, Susan Gibson had roles as a developer and as a project manager. Now Susan is an enthusiastic and caring presenter, consultant, facilitator and coach, and CEO. I am pleased to have her as the speaker for this evening and I would like to turn over the presentation to see them now.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Eternal glories to the Hellenistic stoicism! The philosophers who overcame the trials of time, making their literature the cornerstone expression of the world & its dwellers. One of them is Marcus Aurelius, a king of the land far, far away, a capable warrior, and a stoic thinker. The aforesaid quote (originally written by the Heraclitus, a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher) is the context of Aurelius' magnificent creation “Meditations”.
Coaching is all about “series of conversation”.
Coach help clients solve their problems by asking series of powerful questions and encourage client to formulate answers. Coach challenge their basic assumption, with a view what more is possible. Coach assume that what people think makes a difference. Coaching is a form of learning, but coach is not a teacher. Coach use various coaching technique like Listening, Observing, Reflecting, asking powerful questions, Emotional Intelligence and Systems thinking. Coach help client to become self-generating and self-correcting.
Coaching is about facilitating positive change by improving thinking, creating awareness by showing blind spots. Coaching is 'showing mirror'.
Ambiguity is a Challenge!
Dealing with ambiguity is like a bunch of cars trying to cross an intersection point at once. They never get to pass and more cars pile up over time.
Ever since Lean UX has appeared on the big picture of SAFe, everyone is curious to know what is Lean UX and how does it fit into SAFe framework ?
Definition of Lean UX (as defined by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden)
I suppose you could say I “grew up” in business as a “conventional” leader. The ideas of leadership I was exposed to during my business education and the early years of my career focused on the skills and aptitudes of the leader as individualist. The leader was supposed to be visionary, wise and insightful. He or she was supposed to set the course, motivate the followers and achieve the goal by leading a disciplined process of execution.
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