N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Entrepreneur coaching can be a transformative experience for both emerging and seasoned business leaders. This is where the true value of entrepreneurial coaching shines. A skilled coach tailors guidance to align with each entrepreneur’s goals, creating a roadmap for achieving their full potential.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

“It wasn’t easy — there was cultural resistance, outdated processes, and limited resources.” To become an innovative or transformational CIO, O’Neill says you need to develop a forward-looking vision that aligns with business strategy and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and experimentation within IT.

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CIO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Implementing AI tools isnt enough; we must invest in training, coaching, and support for our teams so they can fully integrate these capabilities into their work. The disparity in adoption levels revealed a very real change management curve that required enhanced support and coaching to help teams integrate these solutions, Downing explains.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Executive coaching, a synergistic alliance between a professional coach and an executive or a team, is designed to tap into the inherent potential of the coachee to enhance performance, learning, and development. The realm of executive coaching extends beyond mere skill enhancement.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of Board Advisor Coaching in Shaping Success Board advisor coaching plays a critical role in shaping the success of organizations and their leaders. By partnering with experienced board advisor coaches , executives gain access to invaluable insights, strategic thinking, and unbiased perspectives.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year, the conference took place virtually on the vFairs conference platform, attracting over 350 registrations from Agile enthusiasts, speakers, and volunteers from around the world. The primary purpose of AgileNCR is to foster a culture of knowledge-sharing and learning within the community.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Investing in Agility. One of the recurring themes in this book is that, in order to be Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. They’re the secret to Agile success.

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TechBeacon

MAY 15, 2019

When I first joined Spotify as an agile coach at the beginning of 2017, one of the challenges we faced was how to understand whether our teams were high-performing. How should we measure that, understand it, and analyze it?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

By integrating measurable metrics with qualitative insights, these evaluations become a key driver of organizational transformationone that identifies pivotal leadership qualities, including agility, resilience, and adaptability. These efforts not only strengthen leadership pipelines but also reinforce sustainable competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Power of Culturally Diverse Perspectives: Exploring the Benefits of International Coaching in Global Leadership Mastery In today’s global business landscape, the ability to navigate and effectively lead across cultures is becoming increasingly vital for success.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Agile for hybrid teams optimizing low-code experiences The agile manifesto is now 22 years old and was written when IT departments struggled with waterfall project plans that often failed to complete, let alone deliver business outcomes. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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Evolution4all

AUGUST 5, 2018

Spotify’s document about tribes and guilds became extremely popular in the Agile community. This approach is extremely common nowadays when companies start to implement Agile. Agile asks for cross-functional teams, and therefore companies start to build teams around different people with different skills within the organisation.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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Agile42

APRIL 30, 2018

Following the announcement of the public launch of agile42 in Sweden , we bring our series "Meet the Coach" to Stockholm to meet Giuseppe De Simone. Born in Italy, Giuseppe is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Team Coach and his relationship with agile42 goes way back. What are the plans for the new Swedish market?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

AUGUST 23, 2022

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 10, 2020

Change is our work as agile coaches and leaders. As online collaboration technologies improve and we begin to understand how flexibility and choice become critical in distributed work, modeling and teaching experimentation is important for agile coaches all leaders. By Mark Kilby.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Understanding the Transformation of Executive Coaching Once steeped in traditional, face-to-face interactions, executive coaching is undergoing a radical transformation. Unlike other sectors, the coaching industry is tapping into the infinite possibilities of the digital revolution.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2022

Businesses must end any blame culture that can exist between departments and among teams. A Lean Agile mindset is essential, continually eliminating wastage and raising efficiency. They can nurture that culture of trust and transparency, accepting conflict and finding solutions. All of us make mistakes.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2023

Here’s how I spot derailments: Ask initiative leaders to share access to their roadmaps, agile backlogs, collaboration tools, stakeholder communications, and internal documentation. The practices that worked when digital transformations started small with one initiative must evolve into a digital culture and a transformation operating model.

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scruminc

APRIL 24, 2020

Agile transformations are complicated. As a Scrum coach and trainer, I have worked with a variety of clients over the years from finance to farming, from media to manufacturing, and have found consistently that 6 key elements can get your transformation started on the right path. . . by McCaul Baggett | April 24, 2020 | Blog.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

APRIL 29, 2020

Introducing business-oriented automated testing can involve a huge cultural change. For this we really need a Test Coach role, just like we have agile coaches and scrum masters.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 29, 2021

This article explores probable sources of mental breakdowns and lack of motivation and confidence along with types of burnout and describes the role agile coaches and organizational leaders can therefore play in addressing burnout. Burnout is not only an individual issue, it happens in teams and organizations. By Anna Lavrova.

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James Shore

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Invest in Agility. As we saw in the previous chapter, in order for your teams to get the benefits of Agile, your organization has to buy in to the underlying Agile philosophy. Second Edition cover.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Culture will eat any structure. When the original paper was written, they had guilds for Web Technology and Agile Coaches Guild. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Is this just another matrix model, the sort of thing that Agile coaches have been undoing for years?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

You may have heard about coaching and wondered what it entails and how you might incorporate it into your role. Do you need to have “coach” as part of your job description in order to use coaching skills? This article defines coaching and shows how anybody can use it in their role.

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Modus Create

JULY 21, 2020

Agile at Scale, or Scaled Agile, is all the rage! When and who should implement Scaled Agile? Scaled Agile is a way for organizations with many teams to plan, coordinate, and track work on large initiatives. In this blog post, we’ll review why, when, and how organizations should consider adopting Scaled Agile.

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James Shore

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. How to Be Agile. What does it mean to “be Agile?”. As we’ve seen in the previous chapters, Agile is a philosophy: a way of thinking about software development. Practicing Agile. Second Edition cover.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Moreover, it helps sustain the company culture and largely benefits the organisation, particularly employee productivity and performance. Company/Organisation Culture Benefits. This makes a cultural shift from output to outcomes. Why use OKRs ? Because it’s easy and simple and it does not take up so much resources to ramp up.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 24, 2022

Coaching is primarily client-driven, the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JUNE 15, 2021

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 4, 2021

Niall McShane has written a book Responsive Agile Coaching, aimed at people who are coaching individuals, teams and organisations in new ways of working to help guide others in adapting to changing circumstances and responding to new demands.

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Agile Alliance

AUGUST 26, 2019

Agile started off from an interest in how to develop valuable software better in a small team, but has since evolved to encompass a specific culture of working in an organization. Our organization has a specific working culture that has evolved over time influenced by the local cultural background.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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