Written By Mike Cottmeyer I spend a lot of time talking about the underlying preconditions for Agile. Because of my background in project management, process, and org design. I usually talk about the necessary preconditions from that angle. …

Recorded By Mike Cottmeyer What if, instead of focusing on all the Agile practices, we started applying some of the things we know about systems engineering to help large companies become the kind of organization that can leverage those practices? Instead of blindly performing the ceremonies of Scrum, what it…

Recorded By Mike Cottmeyer The Agile industry seems insistent that practices, methodologies, and frameworks will be how large organizations achieve Business Agility. But, the clients and companies we talk to seem to have a different opinion. Many of them are saying, “yeah, we tried Agile. It didn’t work.” And they’re…

Recorded By Dave Prior When organizations set out to adopt Agile, they always have a business reason. It’s never just because they really love Scrum, or SAFe, or LeSS. But when the teams start doing all the Agile things, and they’re met with resistance from the organization around them, it’s…

Written By Mike Cottmeyer LeadingAgile has worked with lots of clients 13 years into our existence. …

Recorded By Dave Prior Today, the market for Transformation is a transition period. We see some companies looking for the next big thing, and others going back to what they know. Is this a sign that Agile is waning? Is it evolving? Or is Agile so deeply engrained in the…

Recorded By Mike Cottmeyer If you could magically create a new world where large organizations had overcome the barriers to Business Agility and Agile came naturally, what would have to be true about that world, the organizations, and the people working there? To make your new world a reality, what…

Recorded By Mike Cottmeyer Agile Transformation, Digital Transformation, DevOps Transformation; they’re all just different ways large organizations attempt to achieve the same results. And they all fail for the same reasons. No plan. No vision. No way to measure success. No alignment. And no results. …

Recorded By Dennis Stevens Empowering your teams isn’t about allowing them to make decisions in a vacuum and giving them free rein to do whatever they want. The days of providing a little guidance here, some methodology there, and letting the teams self-organize their way to success are behind us…