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agile (21)

What Does an Agile Coach Want for Christmas?

Dear Santa, I am an agile coach. My work-life is quite a challenge. Please give me something that will help with these problems.

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Individuals and Interactions Thanks to Processes and Tools

Humans are toolmakers. Tools are, among some other things, what sets us apart from other animals.

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Consultants, Certificates and Conferences: Let’s Try Something Else

Few people are incentivized to speed up change, continuous learning is rarely validated, and the feedback cycles between authors and user...

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Fake Agile

Many attempts at achieving business agility are misguided and fake. But I consider the glass half full, not half empty. Fake Agile is a s...

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I Will Be Destroying Frameworks at Agile2017 – What About You?

I am looking forward to discussing my new project with innovative content creators, experienced agile coaches, and data-driven agile busi...

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The Failure Shirt: Agile Diplomats at the EU

“We made a mistake. They are going to hate me tomorrow,” he said. Imagine a room with 28 EU diplomats, twice that many specia...

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Agile Is Not Dead

Agile Is Not Dead (But Some Organizations Might Be Soon)

The concept of agility is fine. Agile is not dead. But organizations misapplying good agile practices might be very soon.

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Agility versus Discipline

Really, Can You Be Agile and Not Disciplined?

Last week, it happened again. On Facebook I posted a screenshot of the huge checklist that I use as a quality assurance gate for my book ...

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Agile HR – 15 Minutes on Air

This week I invited Pia-Maria Thorén for a couple of questions about Agile HR: What did you learn from the Agile HR conference? Is HR di...

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Why Write a Book? (15 Minutes on Air)

In this (experimental) hangout I discuss with Ángel Medinilla what he learned from writing his book Agile Management.

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Complexity versus Lean versus Agile versus Me

While the experts are battling over each others’ ideas, I remind myself that all models are useful (though some fail faster than others...

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8 Reasons NOT to do an Agile Management Course

You are already running a perfect business. Why should you need an Agile Management course? So, you do software development “the Agile ...

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