Digital transformations need all teams to work together in order to impact the business. But in order to make an impact, you have to build trust and communicate with people across the business. Here are some tips on how to run a successful agile campaign working from the bottom up.

1. Influencing
Executives
Go rogue and win
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2. Goals
● Work together as a matrixed team
● Get more accomplished with less effort
● Reduce time spent in meetings
● Decisions based on fact

3. Prereqs
This guide is written for folks who have a basic understanding or interest in agile
product development.
I make several assumptions that you understand some things I refer to.
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4. Context
Today’s landscape of enterprise technology has changed significantly over the past
10 years.
Companies need to have agile baked into all teams across the organization
Cloud solutions, coupled with digital content strategies is new and business leaders
need help understanding what to do and how to do it.

5. Introduce a new project that is not tied to current processes
Use a centralized repository (e.g. wiki) to communicate
● Business Objective
● Context
● Assumptions
● List of requirements for any users of the system
Start new

6. Defining Goals
Things to consider:
● How does this tie to the business strategy
● How will the feature generate revenue or solve a costly problem
● If you can’t define it, do you need it?

7. Be Brief
Turn text into visuals
● Diagrams - Process Flow, SIPOC
● Infographics
● Screen shots
Start the conversation
Get feedback and iterate

8. ● Work towards constant improvement
● Be encouraging, not critical
● Empathize with users to demonstrate your point of view
● Accept feedback from people and users when given
● Show that you care so that you can deliver
Encourage Feedback

9. Tools of the Trade
● Jira
● Confluence
● taiga.io
● Basecamp
● Google Docs
● Gitlab
● waffle.io