Writing a new playbook for Agile2022 in Nashville
A report from the Agile2022 Program Team to the Agile community to provide some background about what was on our minds as we sat down to plan next year’s conference in Nashville.
Supporting The Agile Alliance
I want to encourage everyone to join the Agile Alliance, and help support the only independent group whose focus is maintaining the original intent and spirit of the Agile Manifesto.
A Scrum Flight Checklist
Are you concerned that your team might have strayed from the foundational principles of Scrum or deviated from its core practices? This checklist will help you stay on track.
Empathy interviews for transformational coaching
Empathy interviews are an effective technique for both understanding the people involved in a transformation and going beyond individuals to see where patterns emerge.
Agile Experience Reports: A Fresh Look at Timeless Content
Explore the newly designed Experience Reports section of Agile Alliance, now organized by topic as well as by conference to help you find the content you want more quickly.
Remarks on the Original Scrumban Essay
Corey Ladas explains how Scrumban was intended to be a practical demonstration of achieving a continuous delivery process by means of an iterative improvement process.
Stretch Your Leadership Muscles: Leading Up, Down, and Across!
A range of tools is needed to respond to the situations at hand – tools like awareness. Now that you’re aware of your situation and context, what kind of leadership is needed?
Overcoming One-Size-Fits-All Budgeting
Agile transformations can easily be disrupted by a traditional non-Agile budgeting approach that contradicts the flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness required by Agility.
Be an Inspirational Agile Leader
A look at how writer on inspirational leadership, Simon Sinek’s ideas can be applied to Agile and Scrum and look at how we, as Agile leaders, can become more inspirational.
Messing With the Scrum Recipe
Scrum has been around since the mid-eighties, so why is it that some companies make it work so beautifully while others end up in such chaos that they run back to old methods?
Support for Purpose: Situational Awareness for Change Leaders
We have seen Agile transformations being disrupted by lack of awareness that the transformation is a journey that needs different support in each particular context and situation.
A Little Lean Can Create a Whole Lot of Positive Change
To come back to our original question on the amount of Lean contained in today’s Agile, we find that putting more Lean back into the practice of a team’s (and organization’s) Agile approach helps increase its effectiveness. Part 5 in a series.
