Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Developing High-Performance Agile Coaches

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:02:08 -0500

This program developed by Cutter Senior Consultant Jon Ward employs an apprenticeship style of blended learning that includes theory and practice to provide a clear, pragmatic understanding of the art of agile coaching over the course of fourteen weeks. Participants will gain a deep understanding of core agile conventions and benefit from the practical application of observation, analysis of team behavior and performance, and the implementation of a range of interventions based upon agile wisdom.

Boost the Performance of Your Distributed Software Teams

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:03:12 -0400

Companies around the globe are quickly moving to a fully distributed model, many without the training and preparation needed to ensure their teams achieve and sustain success. Led by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant John Heintz, these four virtual workshops will help your organization boost its distributed software team performance, enabling your software teams to survive and thrive in dispersed environments.

Created for Virtual Delivery

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How to Do It Right: Become a High Performance Organization

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 06:09:00 -0400

Shed light on a critical aspect of the quality-performance connection that is too often overlooked.

Would your organization benefit from business executives who foster overall operational stability, while at the same time use a wide array of options for handli

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence, Leadership

Consulting

Unpeeling the Onion Doesn’t Have to Make You Cry

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:08:01 -0400

Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Hillel Glazer believes that to answer the question, “How do we know we’re performing well?” organizations can work backwards — unpeeling the onion — to add the most visible and readily accessible attributes that would lead them from their center (the core of the

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Industrial Agile Framework

Hubert Smits — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:02:02 -0500

Twice the product in half the time.

Agile development is best known in the software world, where projects are easily understood as iterative. But until now, it hasn't been leveraged in developing industrial products.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Technical Due Diligence for Acquisitions

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:07:39 -0400

Cutter Consortium’s Technical Due Diligence for Acquisitions ensures an unbiased assessment of the software, software architecture, technology, security, and technology skills of your potential acquisition. Discover the value and SWOTs of your target company’s current-state systems.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence, Leadership

Consulting

Making Processes Lean Isn’t Lean Enough

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 01:06:20 -0400

Copycats abound for the Toyota Production System (TPS), which for years has been held out as the benchmark for Lean processes. There’s a widely-held belief that practicing Lean means eliminating waste in a process or in an organization, as the TPS does.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Call for Papers: Architecture + Agile: The Yin & Yang of Organizational Agility

Christine Generali — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:06:10 -0400

The ability of an organization to continually identify, assess and react to change quickly and effectively in response to major forces such as globalization and technology, is moving from the realm of competitive advantage to necessary for survival.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Want to Change Your Organizational Culture? Get Started Yesterday.

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 10:01:42 -0500

Digitally-driven change is messy and unpredictable and unsettles everyone. Embracing the mess, and fundamentally changing organizational culture is critical for successful digital transformation.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Agile Leadership Training

Don MacIntyre — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 10:01:27 -0500

Don MacIntyre has led large and small organizations through successful transformations. And now you can benefit from his on-the-job experience. Don MacIntyre’s Agile Leadership training is designed to help leaders make Agility a priority, enabling their organizations to transition quickly to new ways of doing business.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Who is Performing Well? Get the Facts.

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:09:40 -0400

Knowing who is performing well in your organization — and why — are important factors in knowing what to do to improve. Traditionally, organizations have relied on subjective measures to answer questions of what is working and why it works.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Stop the Slowdown in Customer Responsiveness

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:07:59 -0400

Time has a significant impact on projects. You need to get to market. You need to respond to change quickly, but also remain responsive over time, which makes it critical to build maintainable systems.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Give Design Thinking a Thought

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:07:07 -0400

Design thinking is gaining popularity among managers as a means to spurring creativity in innovation and problem solving. With design thinking, multidisciplinary teams work visually to see through the complexity of their project.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Software Risk is Business Risk. Who’s Responsible for Mitigating It?

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:07:48 -0400

Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Pete Kaminski has been looking at the business risks posed by software, and how to mitigate them. He gives context to the issue this way: “Driving business risk down is just smart business.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Some Advice for Middle Managers

Anne Mullaney, Anne Mullaney — Tue, 16 May 2017 08:05:17 -0400

From time to time Cutter Senior Consultant Jens Coldewey talks with middle managers who started their Agile journey some years ago and are unhappy with the results. Here’s his advice: If you start changing an organization toward an Agile mindset, there’s no real end.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Maximize Your Return on Big Data Investments with Lean Thinking

Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:12:43 -0500

Optimize your Big Data investments, decision making, and performance.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence, Technology

Agility and Stability

Murray Cantor, Murray Cantor — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:06:36 -0400

The world is in a time of rapid change resulting from the usual culprits: The integrated economies and labor market have created a “flat world.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Attention Agile Organizations: Alignment = Better Decision Making

Jens Coldewey — Tue, 31 May 2016 11:05:58 -0400

A frequent complaint we hear from Agile teams is that their self-organization is not respected and their manager routinely overrules their decisions.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Agile Management

Murray Cantor — Tue, 17 May 2016 09:05:10 -0400

Cutter’s Senior Consultants are experts in training management teams how to both meet the needs of the Agile development organization and pursue the strategic goals of the business. At the end of this two-day Agile Management session, your executives and managers will know how to balance empowerment with governance, align goals and metrics up and down the organization, and determine the exact amount of agility (or stability!) your organization needs to support its business objectives.

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence

Six Ways to Reduce Tech Debt

John Heintz — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:04:57 -0400

What strategies do you apply to modernizing a product code base? What results do you get with those strategies?

Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence