Value Transformed is now Better Outcomes Today
Hello clients and friends. It's time to re-imagine, pivot, and evolve. Value Transformed is being "transformed" into something new... Better Outcomes Today where we focus on creating better ...
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Video from Feb 11 session at DevOps North America Summit
For those of you that couldn't come to our session @ "Your DevOps Rollout is Stalling! Why... and now HOW to Course-Correct it!" at the February 11 DevOps North America Summit (originally scheduled for 4:00 PM but later bumped up to 11:30 AM NYT)... shared with permission from GWS1.21 (session questions omitted) https://videopress.com/v/oZ0nkiFE?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata Deck used ...
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Helping nonprofits evolve quickly via Biz Agility Executive Bootcamp
This extraordinary holiday season my business partner and I thought about how fortunate we are. Our business remained strong during COVID. We pondered meaningful ways to give back to nonprofits. We considered just sending donations but wanted something that provides a much greater and longer-term impact. We asked ourselves... How can we best help organizations, ...
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COVID-19 Business Resilience Workshop… have Readiness Plan in just 3 hours
Get your business COVID19 ready and your staff from worried / scared / surreal to focused / energized / confident before lunch, in just three hours. This is a self-help guide on how to run a COVID19 Business Resilience Workshop in your organization. This is the fastest way to decide on your core services, resilience policies, and appropriate communication plan... but also to turn your staff from scared to focused.
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Using Complexity to Answer 5 Tough Agile Questions
Can a single insight answer five tough questions facing Agile today? Let's find out! Here are the topics we'll be wrestling with in this article: Why is it so difficult to predict or provide delivery dates in Agile? Why doubling team size doesn't necessarily increase team productivity? Why Agile requires executive and stakeholders to change? ...
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Agility for Executive Teams
I recently had lunch with a former colleague turned friend. Teina is an executive innovator and disruptor in one of the largest global non-profits in the world. Besides family and work updates, she posed a great question we wrestled with over our lunch… now covered in this article: "How can an Executive Team become more ...
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Five P’s of Office Politics
Office politics are a complex issue, especially when we are the subjects of it. Yes sometimes decisions are made to advance personal executive agendas or business profit at the “expense” of people. Yes the business “morality” is often in conflict with the morality of staff effected. On the surface, especially when we are victims of these ...
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How customer-centricity empowers BDD and story lifecycle @ Agile Testing Summit Toronto
On August 30, come out to Agile Testing Summit in Toronto. We are honoured to be a speaker at this summit. Here are topic details and link to register... Go beyond behaviour-driven development practices in this interactive session. Push the boundaries and explore how BDD mindset can be used to radically involve customers throughout the ...
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Agile Product Development @ Silicon Halton
Product planning and management has evolved over the years from waterfall to Lean Agile. Traditional methods are geared towards an end date and single customer and focus on managing known scope, price and timing. However, products are constantly disrupted through a series of market shifts and ever-changing customers needs. A more fundamental shift towards a ...
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How Digital Transformation is revolutionizing Project Management
As customers are becoming more Digital, our projects become more digital, and we (our roles) become more digital. "The core structure and capabilities of established project management offices (PMOs) are being disrupted and challenged by digitization…" says Joanne Kopcho, Research VP for Gartner. Let's explore how Digital Transformation is impacting project management processes and practices. ...
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We implemented Agile but it’s not bringing expected results… What’s next?
Organizations have been implementing Agile since late 90's. One of the more recent and most reliable stats is from 2017 PMI Pulse on the Profession stating "71 percent of organizations report using agile approaches for their projects". That same publication elaborates that only 21% of projects are done in Agile alone and another 20% in ...
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Digital is in Wild Wild West and IT is stuck in Legacy… Now what?
Digital and Customer Transformations are more difficult for more complex and larger businesses. In earlier stages of their Digital Maturity, as they transition from functional silos to more value-centric and cross-functional organizational structures, it is very common to hear the following the "us vs them" sentiments. IT reflects on borderline negligent adoption of technology (often ...
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99.2% client satisfaction
Results speak for themselves. Clients love our training, our services, our workshops, and our consulting. 99.2% expressed having a great experience with over 60% using the highest rating "Excellent"! * Here is some of their feedback (anonymous): Within about two minutes, it was very clear that [VT] possessed deep expertise in managing change in an ...
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Scaled Agile Training Registrations are Open!
Whether you're on a journey to scale Agile in your organization or just want to understand the difference between Product Owner vs Product Manager... this globally recognized Scaled Agile Framework courses and certifications are a great way to upgrade your skills and open new career prospects. 12th Annual State of Agile Report by Version One ...
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Value Transformed is now Better Outcomes Today
Hello clients and friends. It's time to re-imagine, pivot, and evolve. Value Transformed is being "transformed" into something new... Better Outcomes Today where we focus on creating better outcomes, better leaders, and better organizations. Please head over to BetterOutcomesToday.com for all future business needs.
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Accelerate OKRs – Delegate OKRs both Up and Down
"Shoot for the sun and you will reach the moon..." a common narrative senior executives use when cascading aggressive targets downstream to their leaders and team. Using stretch targets is indeed a great way to shake from stagnation... but only if the level of inspiration matches the aspiration. Unfortunately, ambitious targets are too often NOT ...
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Transformations Explained in 5 Acts
Organizational Transformation explained in 5 Acts: 1 True Approach: Iterative, Non-Invasive, Sustainable, Empowered, Self-Improving Transformation 2 Pre-Conditions: Clear Business-Driven Outcomes & Capable Progressive Leaders (ideally aligned) 3 Common Paths: A Evolve the Product (drive: revenue), Evolve the Approach (driver: productivity), Evolve the Tool / Tech (driver: expenses) 4 Cyclical Stages: 1 Beautiful Bold Vision, 2 ...
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Accelerate OKRs – Coaching Support for faster easier Adoption
General OKR knowledge is readily available via videos, blog posts, and great books. However since OKRs are applied to a messy organization with unaligned leaders in often complex rushed circumstances, you need applied knowledge that only comes from experience. This article is part of a larger series: Ten Most Important OKR Accelerators I acknowledge this is ...
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The Impossible Choice
Should businesses invest in employee wellness and recovery, even at the cost of stakeholder returns? This choice is especially difficult for organizations that are suffering from employee burnout and high turnover, yet have suffered significant revenue declines and are barely surviving. Most of the time, the answer I hear is "No, companies are not responsible ...
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Accelerate OKRs – Courage & Confidence within Ambiguity
Adopting OKRs can sometimes begin with premature sense of clarity. After all, what's more natural to leaders than to boldly shape a new vision of change? And if it just a format or a process the leader is looking to adopt, the perceived ambiguity is minimal. Yet too often these youthful naive expectations meet the ...
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Accelerate OKRs – Go Slow to Go Fast
OKRs may seem easy. After reading the famous John Doerr book "Measure What Matters", many leaders think the adoption is 70% format / 20% application & alignment / 10% mindset change. Reality is often quite the opposite: 10% format / 30% application & alignment / 60% mindset change. This is precisely why adopting OKRs takes ...
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Using OKRs to redefine Leader Roles & Job Descriptions
The topic of using Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) for Personal Performance & Development plans is not new. However, using OKRs to re-defined leader roles and job descriptions is more recent and potentially more powerful. This article tackles the WHY, HOW, and WHAT to avoid of this practice. They WHY is simple: Using objectives rather ...
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Leader’s Hope Deferred
Are you losing hope? Behind all the positive platitudes, all your strategies, all your plans, and all your presentations… are you losing hope? Not just hope in your organization. Not just hope in achieving your targets. Not just hope in your leadership. I mean your personal hope. Are you losing hope in yourself? And before you ...
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Leading a Burned-Out Workforce
Let’s get straight to it, leaders. New research from HBR, Gallup, and others is revealing that about half of us are in denial and telling ourselves lies. We have been distancing ourselves from the real problem… often to protect ourselves, our leadership gaps, and frankly our organizational pressures. What are those lies? (1) We can ...
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