Leading a large-scale agile transformation isn’t about adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level… it’s about helping your company deliver faster to market, and developing the ability to respond to a rapidly-changing competitive landscape. First and foremost, it’s about achieving business agility. Business agility comes from people having clarity of purpose, a willingness to be held accountable, and the ability to achieve measurable outcomes. Unfortunately, almost everything in modern organizations gets in the way of teams acting with any sort of autonomy. In most companies, achieving business agility requires significant organizational change. Agile transformation…

This year, Tricia was the Agile2017 conference Chair and in this video, she discusses how the conference has grown and changed over the years. Also, she speaks about how the speakers are chosen and how the organizers try to provide a variety of things to do for attendees to self-care and stay fresh. Midway through the clip, Tricia switches gears and talks about her personal ascension to the role of an Agile leader and how she tries to pay it forward to the Agile community.

In this – all LeadingAgile – edition of SoundNotes, Rick Austin and Paul Argiry discuss each of their talks. The talks focus on portfolio management and capitalizing software in an Agile world. In the video the guys discuss the new definition of portfolio management, road mapping, and capacity management as well as how to avoid common accounting pitfalls when trying to fund your Agile initiative.

What is Process Cycle Efficiency? Process Cycle Efficiency, also known as “Flow Efficiency” or “Value Add Ratio,” is a measurement of the amount of value-add time in any process, relative to lead time (the time between the initiation and completion of a production process). The higher the ratio, the more efficient your process. This metric quantifies waste throughout a system of delivery. One form of waste I want to bring attention to is waiting. Why is this important? Particularly in application development in large organizations, we often spend more than 95 percent of our time waiting. First, let’s start by…

Some of us at LeadingAgile have been talking about how best to introduce technical practices and tooling in client environments that aren’t entirely up to date in that area. We’ve been working through how to align technical improvement with the improvements in structure, governance, and metrics that our model has focused on. One point of discussion has been the appropriate time to introduce continuous integration (CI). Some feel it’s an advanced practice that would overwhelm novice teams that are trying to get a handle on lightweight methods based on the agile and lean schools of thought. They feel it would…