Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
4 Reasons Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Impact the Bottom Line
If you're a leader, chances are good you've been reading and hearing about emotional intelligence more often than normal lately. Emotional intelligence goes beyond empathy and listening to others.
What Does It Mean to Be Psychologically Safe in the Workplace?
Experts have identified one key factor that enables people to feel secure, happy, and challenged in the workplace, over and above everything else: psychological safety, or the knowledge that one won’t be punished, rejected, or iced out for speaking up or admitting a mistake.
Reclaiming Leadership In The Age Of Agile
In a world with too many disengaged, dissatisfied, and disaffected employees, as well as bumbling governments unable to deal with destabilizing change, and too many people putting misplaced trust in populist leaders, it’s sad to note that even leadership experts concede that the multi-billion-dollar leadership industry has been of little help.
The Latest from Retrium
🔥🔥The Retrospective Hot Seat🔥🔥
With new bonus episodes! Ten of today's leading retrospective experts share their answers on how to facilitate great retrospectives every time!
Technical Agility
Agencies modernizing for a low-code, agile environment
Jack Galvin, associate deputy assistant secretary of Office of Information and Technology at the VA, said the new electronic health record is days away from going live in Spokane, Washington, through a partnership with the Defense Department and Cerner.
Tips & Tricks
How to Give a Great Sprint Demo
Exciting. Entertaining. Do these words describe your sprint review meetings? Or are boring and unfocused more accurate? I can’t believe how many times I’ve come in to coach a team and they’ve been surprised when I actually expected to see a software demo in the sprint review meeting. As the agile principle says, “Working software is the primary measure of progress.” Let’s see some software!
Business Agility
For Agile Success Flexibility Matters Most: Here’s How To Achieve It
You know agile is a journey and not a destination. You also know it’s easy to learn and difficult to master. But beyond these pithy truisms, you wonder which priorities should receive the greatest focus and how to accelerate your agile success.
Agile at Scale
10 Companies Killing It at Scaling Agile
By its very nature, agility is a challenge for large organizations. Its requirements of flexibility, experimentation, and the ability to pivot quickly in a dynamic environment seem inconsistent with the rigid structure of the enterprise. But agility at scale can be achieved with the right framework and cultural mindset. These 10 innovative companies are proof, illuminating how others can reap the benefits of agile across the organization.
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6 Challenges of Agile at Scale for ERP
Agile has been around for a long time by IT standards and has proven to be successful for many companies. As companies have evolved and progressed through the pioneering stage of agile, there has been a tendency to take on larger and larger efforts. There have even been inroads made in the application of agile to support the deployment of ERP (projects that are notoriously complex with a significant amount of integration). But the benefits of agile that were derived from smaller-scale efforts have not naturally transferred to agile projects at scale.