With Derek Poppink & David Nack Maximizing the value of product roadmaps requires more than just deeply understanding customers and muscling through a bunch of features. It requires that we bring together Product Managers and Enterprise Architects to collaboratively align the business and technology roadmaps. It requires that the…

Jobs to be Done is a Framework designed to enable more innovation and disruption. It’s used as a tool to see products through the eyes of customers and the goals they’re trying to accomplish. In this video, you’ll get a quick introduction and overview of Jobs to Be Done that includes examples of Jobs, plus an overview of how our LeadingAgile Studios team uses JTBD to solve problems for our clients.

Recorded by Dave Prior There’s a layer to communication that is most important for understanding: intention. It’s the most often overlooked aspect because it’s hard to decipher if people are saying what they mean or if you actually understand what they’re saying. By hunting for a shared understanding of intention…

The core of change management is helping an organization prepare, support, and apply changes to an organization. In execution during an Agile Transformation, it looks different depending on how the organization is going about this change. The most significant aspect of change management is that it should include the people…

12 Agile principles were included in the Agile Manifesto when it was written 21 years ago. Some of the original Agile principles still hold up today, but some were written in a business context that isn’t the same today. Even looking at Agile 10 years ago compared to today…

Over the last decade, automation has become the norm for most organizations. And if they aren’t fully automated, they are going toward becoming fully automated. DevOps automates the process that connects development to operations, and now that DevOps tools are easy to get your hands on, most people want to…

When the Agile Manifesto was created 21 years ago, software development, technology, and the world, in general, were different. Agile was first created in response to the frustrations around the traditional software development processes of the 1990s-years from idea to development to deployment-and the explosion of personal computing, meaning that…

Organizational change management in Agile is used as a systematic approach to managing the Transformation process to support the people and the organization to adapt to the changes required. …

Written by Derek Poppink & David Nack Imagine you were building library databases for schools. The librarians are your economic buyers, and they value advanced search pages-Boolean searches for just the right keywords or publication dates. But the librarians aren’t buying these databases only for themselves. Instead, they’re buying them…