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Get unstuck & empower leaders through LEADERSHIP Hackathon
Running a Hackathon is not just for software companies. Spotify HR (yes HR!) has been using hackathons as early as 2015. Their first hackathon successfully increased diversity and gender-parity of at that time male-dominated organization. But their most recent hackathon did not have developers or engineers, but rather middle-managers and organizational leaders. As recently shared in their HR ...
Spotify Model courses coming to Canada & USA
We are excited to announce a brand new partnership with Jimmy Janlén to deliver the new "Spotify Model" courses in Canada and USA. “The Spotify Model” has been getting a surprising amount of attention in the Agile community since it was first widely shared in 2012. The Spotify Engineering Culture videos have more than 500,000 ...
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?preloadContent=metadata Deck used ...
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, ...
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.
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? Why can't ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The big WHY
Our constant challenge: Creating customer value in a highly disruptive world! VT empowers organizations to elevate customer value through Lean Agile practices We do this through our E4 Exploration, Empowerment, Enablement, and Enrichment: Exploration – Identify where you are in your Lean Agile journey (Research & Audits)Empowerment – Building skills and practices (Training & Workshops)Enablement – Guiding and growing Lean ...