Working with Leadership

Scrum improves transparency in an organization and is more effective for important discussions than a Steering Committee.

Scrum framework is more effective in an organization for important discussions, teamwork, and transparency than a Steering Committee. Sarah, a team leader in the organization, intends to hold a Sprint Review with all the C-levels present including the CEO, to talk about the team's progress and what they plan to do next. However, Sarah's Manager Fred is strictly against the idea and plans to keep things in the dark for the C-level through a Steering Committee.

30 controversial innovation tricks from 6 peculiar industries used to move organizations from comfort to the growth zone.

Getting companies (specially large ones) to innovate is no easy task. In this slideshow, the Board of Innovation shows us techniques they have used to spark creativity in their brainstorming sessions. They confronted corporates with unconventional markets to help them innovate like startups, and share examples to look for innovation inspiration in fields such as gaming, toys, fashion, criminals, dating, and sports.

Measuring global progress towards agility, and the relationship between agile maturity and the level of leadership.

A very insightful article exploring how C-Suite got into business agility and how Agile progress and Agility are correlated with other factors analytically like leadership. It also delves into why big firms are making slower progress towards agility. It details that organizational Agility can be defined as the ability to quickly reconfigure strategy, structure, processes, people, and technology toward value-creating and value-protecting opportunities.

Several facts about Agile that leaders should understand for effective Agile transformations.

Based on research conducted by Deloitte in 2017, about only 6% of the organizations in the Agile space, transition and become fully Agile. So what prevents the 94% from becoming Agile? Heidi Araya in this article explains that the process of transitioning a company from its current culture to an agile setting is a crucial stage and determines whether the company will achieve its agile goal. She highlights a number of important facts that executives/ leaders should leverage during an agile transformation.