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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

Mike Cottmeyer was recently a guest on the Agile to Agility podcast with Miljan Bajic where he discussed Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling. And I want to go to a topic, I haven’t discussed this with anybody on the podcast, I’ve done business architecture. Listen now. Agile to Agility Website.

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Business Architecture: The Ins and Outs with Whynde Kuehn

Bridging the Gap

Whether you’re learning about business architecture for the first time or dreaming of ways to grow your BA career into a business architecture role, my conversation with Whynde Kuehn will help you discover the value of this role in an organization and what you can do to bridge that gap in your career.

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Seeing Your Vision

Leading Agile

My three-year-old granddaughter has a number of favorite books that she likes me to read to her. Your organizational structures, decision-making frameworks, governance, and metrics will all need to be evaluated to ensure alignment and coherence with the vision. One is a story about Helen Keller.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

It is possible to do Scrum by the book and not create the results. The technology architecture? The governance model? Complex business rules. Governance and control. Dependencies and governance. Dependencies and governance are a reality. Even if you are doing Scrum well. Same for XP. Same for SAFe.

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 Executive’s Guide To Large-Scale Agile Transformation & Sustaining An Adaptive Enterprise w/ Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

What does it look like when we’re trying to figure out how to do agile governance? Not only at the team level, but at the program level at the portfolio level, at the strategy level, like at the macro level of governance and that was kind of the problem that we really set off to solve. But a lot of times, and you guys know this.

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Overcoming Resistance to Change in Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

Many organizations we encounter operate in functional silos, have traditional PMOs, and rigid governance and control structures. I read a lot of the books and I mean, I think there are definitive definitions, but as individuals, a lot of times we’re using that word pretty loosely. And we want people to think in small batches.

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Agile Unplugged: EP 02 | Mike Cottmeyer and Dennis Stevens

Leading Agile

So, that was kind of cool, the thing that I was doing like right before we met was I had been brought into Microsoft as a contractor, building out a business architecture practice, I think they called motion. So, I was helping Microsoft build a business architecture practice, on the tail of that. – Hmm.

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