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1. More Strategic Management Focus

The Agile development process using empowered, self-organizing teams has enabled a major shift in the Valpak management approach: “Conversations are fundamentally changing at the Sr. executive team level focusing less on tactical implementation issues and more on strategic growth initiatives”

• Do these things less
• No longer have to justify and/or explain extremely large project plans (the Executive Sponsor and Product Owner decide the sprint schedules and backlog priorities and own it)
• No longer have to talk about why IT missed a date or did not set expectations correctly between project team and Executive Sponsor (ES and PO own the priorities and expectations)
• Rarely have to play the “peacemaker” role between various groups now that the business firmly owns the work product
• Started doing more of
• Strategic planning and execution to grow the business
• More involved in business development, partnership and acquisition executions
• Partnering with other Sr. team members to help them think through growing their business lines versus fixing IT”6