Pretty Agile blog posts about Leading Change

12 Lean Habits of the 21st-Century Technology Leader

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 21, 2017

Lean is the term the Western world has come to use for the Toyota Production System (TPS).1 Created by Taiichi Ohno, TPS aims to reduce the time between a customer order and payment for the delivery of a vehicle by “reducing the non-value Read more...

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Cutter Articles

Tags: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, Leading Change, Lean, Learning, Middle Management, One Team Culture, Respect for People, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Visualisation

The Magic Carpet Ride- A Business Perspective on DevOps

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 19, 2016

Having problems convincing your stakeholders to try DevOps? Confused about how DevOps can work at scale? Or even just wondering where to start with DevOps? Don’t worry you aren’t the only one! Imagine being the business owner of an Read more...

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Videos

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Automated Deployment, CI/CD, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change, Lean, LKCE15, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Switch

Passing the Baton: The Role of Leadership in Sustainable Agile Transformations

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 21, 2014

Five years ago, before I had ever heard of an Agile Release Train, I was given a copy of Jim Collins’ book Good to Great by my line manager. Over the years I have read and re-read this book and it continues to be one of my favourites. I even Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Leadership, Agile Release Train, Agile Transformation, Culture, EDW Release Train, Enterprise Agility, Leadership, Leading Change, Scaling Culture

Scaling Agile Data Warehousing

Em Campbell-Pretty - February 08, 2014

Two years ago, I found myself with five Agile feature teams developing in parallel on an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) with a single integrated code base. While the introduction of Agile was showing promise, we would need to find a way to make Read more...

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Cutter Articles

Tags: Agile, Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Communication, Continuous Improvement, EDW Release Train, Leadership, Leading Change, NPS, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scrum, Visualisation

Switch in Action: Business Change Management Applied to Software Engineering

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 26, 2013

As regular readers of this blog would know, I recently read Chip & Dan Heath's Switch (which I blogged about here). One Saturday evening in July, whilst only a short way though the book, I found myself thinking of the challenges we had rolling out Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Automated Deployment, Change, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath

Em Campbell-Pretty - September 15, 2013

Having read and really enjoyed Chip & Dan Heath's first book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, I bought Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard when it was first released, however it sat on my bookshelf gathering Read more...

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Book Reviews

Tags: Agile Coaching, Agile Transformation, Change, Leading Change

My Agile 2013 Experience - Day 5 of 6

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 23, 2013

Thursday De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces Al Shalloway Al provided a very thorough and complete explanation of the various flavours of Kanban. He covered: Kanban as a signal Kanban as a Team Development Read more...

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Conferences

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Teams, Agile Transformation, Agile2013, Change, Culture, Empathy, Identity, Kanban, Leading Change, Lean, Scaling Agile, Scrum, Trust

Leading Through Vulnerability

Em Campbell-Pretty - July 24, 2013

When Jean Tabaka ran her Scaling Collaboration workshop with my team in June, she commented on how open the team was to the experience and asked us how we went about creating an environment where traditionally introverted software engineers Read more...

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Tribal Unity