Agile Best-Practices

Great article on the architecture of a positioning statement using Harley Davidson as an example: Positioning statements and taglines: Crafting the foundation of your brand strategy. Template What: The only [category] How: that [differentiation characteristic] Who: for [customer] Where: in [geographic location] Why: who [need state] When: during [underlying trend] Example – Harley Davidson used this to determine their positioning ... Read More »

Rob Brown presented to our networking group this week an update on Digital Transformation, the Cloud and the resulting Enterprise Agility which can be achieved.  But, often not that cost effectively, with an awful lot of waste. Rob specializes on helping enterprises lean out their cloud strategies to achieve the same levels of agility at much lower costs, creating ROI ... Read More »

Back in 2001 Dan Pink popularized the term, “Free Agent Nation” when he published his book of the same name, “Free Agent Nation:  The Future of Working For Yourself”.  I read this book as I was taking the leap from the corporate world in the spring of 2002, aged 39, becoming a free agent myself to pursue a portfolio career. ... Read More »

Love doing “Traction Planning” with teams.  Had 50 people in this session and it went GREAT! “Traction Planning” is an AGILE approach to Strategy and Execution and translating everything into Traction with the AGILITY required to be avoiding Wheel-Spin.  Its about triaging the path of least resistance and highest reward in traction on your desired trajectory of profitable growth. In ... Read More »

Absolute delight to be working again with my good friend Marvin DeJean.  We bring together a magical blend of Design-Thinking, Agile-Thinking and Systems-Thinking, helping teams coalesce and brew up breakthroughs to a new future.  1 Team with 1 Mission!  Hence the T-Shirts Marvin brought for everyone and the team photograph.  Marvin is a master at what he does and we ... Read More »

One of my Vistage members, Jamie Prevost, has gone big with the concepts of AGILE in his business.  See his Mission/Vision/Values page.  Below are their Core-Values with AGILITY at the top of the list, which they have institutionalized and operationalized in all kinds of ways in their business and project management. Read More »

Great article:  Barclays banks on agile and DevOps to tackle competitive threats in fintech Read More »

Great article:  How DBS Bank Became The Best Digital Bank In The World By Becoming Invisible Read More »

Great videos about ING’s transformation to AGILE, plus some associated articles. Agile Ways of Working at ING Agile @ Scale:  Large-Scale Agile Transformation Five Secrets to Scaling Up Agile       Read More »

Below are a couple of great videos describing IBM’s transformation to AGILE.  Plus a great article: How IBM saved $300 million by going agile. Plus here are IBMs Links for: DevOps:  Continuous delivery of software-driven innovation Case Studies:  Showcasing IBM client stories Lean and agile development:  Scalable agile solutions for more effective outcomes. Read More »