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The Benefits of Power Skills for IT Leaders, and How to Build Yours!

The IIL Blog

Successful IT leaders need to develop and lean into a set of power skills. Lacking essential power skills such as emotional intelligence, empathy, communication, influence and directiveness can harm both reputation of the IT leadership team and the stability of IT departments. It’s not the 90’s anymore. Effective Communication.

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Top 25 Project Management Influencers of 2025

NimbleWork

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Continual Improvement in IT Processes – The Key to Sustainable Success

The IIL Blog

Building a culture of continuous improvement enhances service delivery and empowers your teams to innovate and excel. Ultimately, the lack of continual improvement hinders the organisation’s ability to adapt, innovate, and maintain a competitive. Adopt a Lean Mindset. So, standing still is not an option.

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Why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete. You can’t bully your way into innovation.

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A story of why psychological safety enhances the abilities of the Scrum Team

Scrum.org

This article is based on the talk/mini-workshop I held with an enthusiastic group of participants at Agile with Ukraine. I would translate fittest in the case as organizations that are able to achieve a maximum outcome with minimal output: the corporate equivalent of a very fit, lean athlete. You can’t bully your way into innovation.

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Escaping the Feature Factory

Scrum.org

It’s too bad that this shift undermines Agile principles and hampers long-term success and innovation. This approach stifles agility and innovation, leading to a feature factory mindset that focuses on executing predefined plans rather than adapting to change. Share successes widely to build a case for further lean initiatives.

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Where does Scrum Master END and Agile Leader BEGIN? Differences/similarities

Scrum.org

They should be well versed on product management, design, other agile and lean agile approaches. Scrum.org offers a scrum with Kanban workshop and scrum with UX workshop as well. If you are doing some other kind of Lean Agile, you might be using Kaizen, where you agree to continually improve or continuously improve.

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