Leading Agile

JULY 22, 2022

We must clearly define and fund for business outcomes at the capability level so that investments are tied to tangible improvements. Antiquated Technology & Business Architecture. To speak candidly, technical and architectural dependencies tend to be the hardest and most expensive impediments to deal with.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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Leading Agile

MARCH 16, 2020

How are we going to govern the flow of value? If you think a lot about what safe is, safe is fundamentally a particular reference implementation of a governance model that is designed to flow work through agile teams. It’s a way of governing. LeSS is a way of governing. Well, this is the business architecture.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 17, 2023

You know, we come in and we take a look at the organizational design, we look at the business architecture, the product model hierarchies. We look at the technology architecture. And you can create an operating model that is team-based with lightweight, flow-based governance at the program and portfolio layer.

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 2, 2023

Many organizations we encounter operate in functional silos, have traditional PMOs, and rigid governance and control structures. Imagine a world where the business architecture, business capability model, domain-driven design, product architecture, and key strategies are in alignment.

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Capiro

JULY 5, 2017

Assisting in managing the realisation of benefits identified in programme and project business cases. Helping to boost business agility. A source for the development of a business architecture. Developing the skills of business analysts in line with the needs of the organisation.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But we were trying to help people figure out how to form teams and how to get backlogs and governance aligned and to be able to just even, conceptually get to the place that you could produce a working test and increment of software. I want an encapsulated business problem, an encapsulated technology solution and a dedicated team.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

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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Leading Agile

MARCH 11, 2020

. – It’s almost like the line of demarcation is almost like, at the business architecture level, because it’s like, you have the business capabilities, business architecture. And then from the business architecture up, it’s more like a line to strategy. – Yeah, right.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 20, 2023

And one of the things that Dennis Stephens, 50 years ago when we first met, was talking a lot about was the idea of business architecture. And we started talking about teaming strategies, and we started talking about where backlogs come from and what enterprise governance looks like and what we measure and what we control.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 14, 2021

What I had been doing was working with business architecture capability models to try to come up with organizational patterns and work breakdown patterns that matched so we could get worked on organizations. And so we kind of had this key insight about the relationship between business architecture and team design and enterprise agile.

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Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? For example, teams may have the spirit of agility but be hampered by a poorly designed technical architecture that is not congruent with Agile principles.

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Clarasys

APRIL 13, 2022

Look at your organisation’s end-to-end value stream (the series of steps an organisation takes in order to provide value to customers) and the business architecture that underpin the CX. , and allow you to target customer segments successfully. Every organisation will have to go on this journey.

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Leading Agile

MAY 9, 2023

We can start managing investment strategies, tying up to OKRs and KPIs, looking at the business architecture of the organization, and understanding where we’re going to have bottlenecks in our system. How do we tie it to business problems, how we deal with governance and corporate issues, and all these different things?

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Business Borderlines

JULY 2, 2021

Within both private industry and government agencies, the business analyst is becoming the central figure in leading major change initiatives (1). It is rather simple but we insist to complicate things sometimes….

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So leading Agile brings this idea of business capability, architecture, teaming strategies, flow-based governance, ultimately starting with business capabilities, but ultimately organizing around value streams, incremental and iterative transformation. Not a lot of people that deeply understand.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So leading Agile brings this idea of business capability, architecture, teaming strategies, flow-based governance, ultimately starting with business capabilities, but ultimately organizing around value streams, incremental and iterative transformation. Not a lot of people that deeply understand.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Business Owners – Are primarily responsible for business, technical governance, and the ROI of the product/solution being developed by the agile teams. These are the individuals that are accountable for the outcomes and weigh in on important tradeoff decisions.

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Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. The Role of Governance Now, this is what I think about when I think about governance.

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MindsMapped

JULY 20, 2020

Business Knowledge. In order to understand the overarching concepts that govern the structure, benefits and value of the situation and how it related to a change or need; it is essential to have the requisite business knowledge; and the competencies underlying it are: Business Acumen. Organization Knowledge.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And I joined it right at the time when the team started to move into Agile and it was done through blood, sweat and tears at the time, but we were building our sort of makeshift agile process and governance model as we did that. How do you create more of a central governance body within your company that will look at cloud DevOps?

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And I joined it right at the time when the team started to move into Agile and it was done through blood, sweat and tears at the time, but we were building our sort of makeshift agile process and governance model as we did that. How do you create more of a central governance body within your company that will look at cloud DevOps?

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IRM Connects

AUGUST 28, 2019

How about if you could easily see the benefits of your process improvement work? Would that help your organisation make better changes? Andrew Sanford, Director, We Are Lean And AgileWe. The post Process Improvement – Its All About The Benefits appeared first on IRM Connects, by IRM UK | IT Blog.

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Clarasys

JANUARY 19, 2022

But also our business architecture approaches and how we shape the right technology and structures behind the business strategies that we’re defining and working with our clients on. Tom Carpenter: Simon? Simon Blosse: Hi everyone. I’m Simon Blosse. I’m a principal consultant here.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2021

Your organizational structures, decision-making frameworks, governance, and metrics will all need to be evaluated to ensure alignment and coherence with the vision. There are well-understood organizational design patterns and business architectures to orchestrate the manner in which work gets done to support a vision.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. And business architecture kind of a nebulous term, but how do you form teams? We have to figure out how to install governance.

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Timo Elliott

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Offering EA as a service positioning architecture as a consultative function that provides value to product and business teams. Shifting from control to collaboration influencing architectural decisions through education, tools, and enablement rather than rigid governance.

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Analysts Corner

APRIL 20, 2025

To build such a miraculous system, you need middleware that connects several headless subsystems via API and provides governance and data consistency. The coincidental rise of Clouds and Microservices created a pretext for raising a Composable business architecture. But those terms are tied together in the currentagenda.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And what systems first means to me is that if we can get the teaming strategies, we can get the governance models, we get the measurement and control, we create the possibility for Agile to do really, really great things in your company. How do we govern for collaboration? That was the stuff that was getting in my way.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And what systems first means to me is that if we can get the teaming strategies, we can get the governance models, we get the measurement and control, we create the possibility for Agile to do really, really great things in your company. How do we govern for collaboration? That was the stuff that was getting in my way.

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Leading Agile

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And if we can really take this first principle of encapsulation over orchestration, if we can take that idea all the way from the top of the organization all the way down and create these strategies across with minimal, lightweight, flow based governance empowered teams at the bottom right, then we’ve got a shot for. Great idea.

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