Business Agility

Agile methodologies have gradually emerged over the past 30 years but really became a thing with the signing of the Agile Manifesto back in 2001. When the Manifesto was signed, most Agilist were talking about small teams, embedded…

The other consultant and I stared in amazement. We were coaching a small group on how to bridge the company’s strategic intent into a list of items that would be in this group’s work backlog. After talking through the general concept, one…

Once we get started on the journey toward becoming Agile—whether we’re at the start or further along in the process—we often notice there’s conflict between different parts of the organization. This is usually because we start with…

“We forgot … we forgot to request… we forgot to request the subdomain level domain, and that lead time for DNS propagation is at least 48 hours, can someone tell marketing we can’t launch this tomorrow?” It’s a simple oversight, forgetting…

This program is to help inform and connect people to corporate job-related neurodiversity programs. In addition, to strive to promote the creation of equitable, inclusive, and accessible work environments. A collective impact program is a…

Why traditional budgeting is the antithesis of Agile – and what to do about it Most organizations are born small and born agile. They are nimble, trusting, collaborative, non-bureaucratic and purpose-driven. But few want to remain small.…

Your company values are defined by the worst behaviors permitted within your business. I always thought that was a rather negative world view. But it helped me to think of defining business performance in terms of our habituations. In…

Maica began by saying that systems exist within each other, so people could be seen as systems that interact within larger systems that are companies. Therefore, a systemic vision is something that should not be lacking in the daily life of…

Continuing our series of interviews with Latam Agile Luminaries, this time I had the pleasure to interview David Canteros from Buenos Aires, Argentina. David’s background includes a Master’s in Organizational Change and a Certified…

The rate of Agile adoption across Africa and the Middle East has generally trailed behind the rest of the world. Perhaps there is no better reflection of this than the fact that respondents from Africa made up just 2% of the respondents…