Agile at Scale
Functional safety vs. Agile: Calling a truce
Has the time come to call a truce between functional safety and Agile software development?
Moving from Agile Teams towards an Agile Organization
Even though agile is now mainstream, companies still struggle to change at the organizational level. The existing agile frameworks and those used for scaling them haven’t been useful in a company-wide adoption. At this moment, there is a strong focus on soft- and language- skills to help managers in becoming leaders. Yet, this is not enough.
Business Agility
Agile Divide Between IT and Business Is Narrowing
A global survey of 1,350 business and IT executives conducted by Jigsaw Research on behalf of NTT Ltd., a provider of IT services, suggests organizations are a lot more agile in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s still a significant gap in terms of prioritizing agility.
Agile Grows With the Times
Even setting aside the whole global pandemic thing, things have changed dramatically. As one single example, far more professions have gone digital. Professions like marketing that once focused exclusively on glossy magazine ads, enormous billboards and flashy TV commercials have become focused on intangible deliverables like sales qualified leads, brand awareness and share of wallet.
Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
How to Create Psychological Safety for Your Small Business Staff
Organizations and workplaces that provide psychological safety will listen to and embrace views that may differ from their own. Psychological safety is important for a company’s success. What is psychological safety? It’s the ability of an employee or group of employees to speak up in the workplace about issues that concern them without fear of payback or stigma. This includes disagreeing with leaders, asking for clarification on areas employees don’t understand. It also means getting involved in implementing new policies.
Predictable Flexibility: The Key To Making Post-Pandemic Workplaces Work For Women
Proactive measures are incredibly important, especially if organizations are to truly foster their female talent. When discussing how to make post-pandemic workplaces work for women, we often hear the term “flexibility” bandied about. Flexibility is key, but it can come with a catch. To delve deeper into this, I reached out to Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling Author of Fair Play.
The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching
Given a choice between working one-on-one with an executive coach or working with a group of peers in a facilitated coaching process, most executives would choose the former. Surely, the thinking goes, it’s better to have an experienced coach’s focused attention instead of relying on dialogue with your peers to support your development.
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The Journey To an Agile Organization
Agility is catching fire, and there is growing recognition of its transformational benefits. But moving to an agile operating model is tough, especially for established companies. There are several paths to agility and many different starting points, yet successful agile transformations all share the common elements described in this paper.