Katie Mullin, Farm Credit Services of America

At the EBA Summit, Katie shared her organization’s lessons on fueling performance. She shared that companies are now operating as a network of teams, aligning goals, providing real-time, continuous and multi-directional feedback. The industry is actually moving ahead of HR. Don’t wait for HR to get this, bring them with you and they will make the connections. 

Dawn Thiem, AgilityHealth

I had the pleasure of attending the OPEX World Summit this past week. It’s been more than 7 years since I’ve engaged with OPEX/PEX & I was so pleasantly surprised with how they have stepped up their game! Found myself wanting MORE time (very rare for me) & I am sincerely looking forward to attending more of these events in the future. 

For those of you that attended, the video recordings & presentations will be coming soon! 

Lessons from the EBA Trenches

The Good News: Innovation and New Ways of Working are rapidly evolving the way organizations deliver value for their customers.  With integrated Digital strategies, Machine Learning & AI, Cloud Computing, Agile Enterprises, Rapid Prototyping, etc. “The Art of the Possible” is changing at an astounding pace.

Marketing teams have been discussing this for years, what metrics really matter? When you want results, ROI and impact over effort, the need to look at how a team functions in alignment with business goals, best practices, market trends and more, requires an understanding of where the gaps exist so you can deploy focused efforts to improve. When you know what you’re trying to change, putting growth plans in place to achieve your objectives becomes a lot less challenging.

Movement is coming for those of us that are changing the world! Based on our experiences, change agent programs need to be designed with the intent to build T-Shaped leaders – change agents who specialize in specific pillars/areas and enable the organization to achieve outcomes by improving the maturity within their specific areas of need. Here’s a quick video overview.

A holistic program to transform the critical roles that enable high-performing teams.

Accelerating Talent Development

Agile and new ways of working are impacting many roles across all levels. We’ve identified 5 key ones to target for 2020 in addition to specialized roles. Scrum Master, Product Owners/Product Managers, Agile Managers,  RTE/Program Managers, Coaches. Invest in these key roles so they can sustain and mature the teams they lead towards your agility journey. 

Curious about what people were reading, downloading and sharing in 2019? We’ve gathered a list of the most popular content, along with exciting new events and workshops to help you measure what matters and create a culture of continuous improvement at every level.

Welcome back! In the first part of this post, we saw how influential Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Tech Leads are when it comes to a team’s health. In this post, we’ll look further at the functional manager as well as whether various people’s confidence in the team is a good predictor of its health.

Conventional wisdom suggests that leadership is important in business, so naturally the various types of leaders in and around Agile teams are important in making the teams healthy and productive. Or are they? After all, Agile organizations are often far from conventional.At AgilityHealth, we are all about understanding Agile teams and what makes them healthy, which is what our SaaS product, AgilityHealth®, was created around. Since launching our platform, we have amassed thousands of Team Health surveys from tens of thousands of participants, which gives us a unique data set to really look deeply into what makes teams successful and healthy.