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18th State of Agile Report (2025): 10 Key Insights Shaping Modern Agile Organizations

Agile, Business Transformation, Leadership, Other

I have just finished reading the 18th State of Agile Report (2025). This year’s edition feels different. For almost 20 years, Digital.ai has been collecting insights from Agile practitioners. The new report shows clear patterns and important signals that are hard to ignore. What stood out to me is how organisations are changing their approach […]

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How Delivery Managers plan in uncertainty: Five pieces of advice.

Agile, Business Transformation, Leadership, Other

Mind map illustration of five pieces of advice on planning for delivery managers in uncertainty, including incremental value delivery, flow optimization, and probabilistic forecasting, by Pawel Rola, pawelrola.com

Delivery managers face unprecedented complexity in today’s enterprise environment. C-suite executives demand predictable outcomes while navigating market disruption, technological acceleration, and shifting customer expectations. Traditional planning methods collapse under this pressure, leaving organisations and delivery managers vulnerable. For delivery managers, relying on traditional ‘predict-and-plan’ methods feels like building castles on sand. The answer isn’t more

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Can You Move Cards Backwards on a Kanban Board? Insights from Toyota for Knowledge Work

Agile, Business Transformation, Kanban, Other, Scrum

Visual showing six benefits of not moving cards backwards in Kanban: promotes problem-solving, increases transparency, keeps WIP limits, reduces cognitive load, focuses on flow efficiency, and keeps graphs relevant.

Can you move cards backwards on a Kanban board? This is one of the most common questions and concerns of people learning about Kanban. In the following article, I share a few thoughts on this question. This article will be relevant if you are: In the following paragraphs, I will elucidate what moving cards backwards

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Why Your Team Resists Change – And How to Inspire Change

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A visual representation of the change formula: D × V × F > R, where D stands for dissatisfaction, V for vision, F for the first step, and R for resistance. The formula illustrates the key factors needed to overcome resistance to change.

Implementing change in the workplace is one of the most crucial skills in your professional career. Regardless of your current position and industry, with high probability, your next big step in professional growth will be related to change. It is because change is crucial for organisations to foster business growth. This article is for you

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Generative AI as a tool for enhancing competitive agility

Agile, Business Transformation, Leadership, Other

Business inherently involves competition, without any judgment on whether that is good or bad. Competition motivates companies to innovate and provide better products, services, and customer experiences, while also enabling them to respond more quickly and accurately to changing market conditions. Competitive agility is a key factor that can help a business outperform its rivals.

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Leaders role in fostering business innovation

Agile, Business Transformation, Leadership, Other

The relationship between imagination creativity and innovation is presented .

How to Start Innovation In Business; How Leaders Can Encourage Business Innovation This article has been written for you if you’re into business innovation or if you’re dealing with challenges such as: If any of this triggers a reaction, in this text, I will share a few practical tips for boosting innovation in your business

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Starting after a 4-year publishing hiatus

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I mean, four years… that’s like a university degree, or two pandemics ago. They say every journey begins with a single step, right? So, I figured four years was long enough—not to write anything publicly open to audience. My last published piece was a thrilling academic adventure 😉 publish in Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica

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