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George Schlitz

George Schlitz
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George Schlitz is co-founder of BigVisible Solutions, a consultancy that focuses on large-scale agile adoptions in diverse industries. Bringing knowledge of agile, lean, systems thinking, and theory of constraints to his clients. His passion is helping clients overcome the challenges of enterprise change using a wide array of techniques. George's leadership experience in business and as a military officer help him excel at coaching and mentoring of leaders and teams. George is a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). If you have questions, or would like help with large scale agile endeavors of any kind, George can be reached at [email protected].

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Consulting
Industry
Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit
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Business Analysis
Configuration Management
Process Improvement
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Software Testing
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United States
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George Schlitz

George Schlitz is co-founder of BigVisible Solutions, a consultancy that focuses on large-scale agile adoptions in diverse industries. Bringing knowledge of agile, lean, systems thinking, and theory of constraints to his clients. His passion is helping clients overcome the challenges of enterprise change using a wide array of techniques. George's leadership experience in business and as a military officer help him excel at coaching and mentoring of leaders and teams. George is a Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). If you have questions, or would like help with large scale agile endeavors of any kind, George can be reached at [email protected].

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Is Your Agile Audit and Compliance Process Really Agile?In a previous column, George Schlitz proposed that process improvements, such as agile, require organizations to change process rules. Now George continues his review of agile in regards to compliance and auditing practices. What he's found is that changes to compliance and auditing rules may appear compatible, but the implementation process usually remains unchanged and conflicts with agile practices.
Agile Removes Limitations—You Must Now Change the RulesIf you're practicing agile methods but continue to reach back to the rules and structures your organization used before adopting agile, you might be asking for more trouble than you know. In this article, George Schlitz discusses the mingling of old and new rules in organizations in different phases of agile adoption and offers a four-step method to help sort out the confusion.
Empowering Self-Organization and Energizing Project Planning with the Commander's IntentThings change, and when they do, it's best to be ready to change with them. The best plans are doomed to fail if they aren't malleable. In this column, George Schlitz and Giora Morein take a look at the military concept of "Commander's Intent" and how it can apply to non-military project planning.