Category archives: Agile with a Purpose
5 March 2013
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
Write up from Agile Development Practices conference in Berlin The fact that many new to Agile focus a lot of energy in doing Agile right, brings them to end often in situation where many Agile Practices stop to make sense as such, and get adapted... unfortunately in not-really-agile ways. With ...
Write up from the Keynote at the Agile Development Practices conference in Berlin
The fact that many new to Agile focus a lot of energy in doing Agile right, brings them to end often in
situation where many Agile Practices stop to make sense as such, and get adapted... unfortunately in not-really-agile ways.
With the keynote today, I tried to pass across that "doing" Agile, requires at least a bit of understanding about why most of the Agile practices are made the way they are made. Starting out by trying something without having understood why it has been created in ...
22 February 2013
Author:
Ralf Kruse
As agile coaches, we regularly want to create a learning environment for people. We use concepts like Training from the Back of the Room to step aside and let them learn. We facilitate and regularly use games. Playing is an integral and very effective part of learning, as it opens people's minds and hearts and creates the emotional connections that makes experiences stick.
As agile coaches, we regularly want to create a learning environment for people. We use concepts like Training from the Back of the Room to step aside and let them learn. We facilitate and regularly use games. Playing is an integral and very effective part of learning, as it opens people's minds and hearts and creates the emotional connections that makes experiences stick.
What makes learning agile challenging?
We want participants to understand concepts that in our experience increase their chance to be successful in agile transitions, and to learn practical methods that may help their teams as well ...
14 February 2013
Author:
Olaf Lewitz
My first pecha kucha talk: Learn how Trust can you help to reach The Heart of Transformation.
Olaf Lewitz
agile42 Coach.
Visiting Business Influencer and Linchpin.
My motto is that of NannyMcPhee: "When you need me, but do not want me, I must stay. When you want me, but no longer need me, then I have to go."
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Agile with a Purpose,
Transition,
Lean Management
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bottleneck,
leadership,
management,
transformation,
trust
At the OOP conference in Munich in January, Martin Heider invited me to give my first pecha kucha talk. Aligned with recent experiences at clients, conversations with Steve Holyer, Andrea Tomasini and Michael Sahota I decided to go for a scary topic: The Heart of Transformation.
Here are the slides:
The talk is available on video here, including an animated version of the slides (video and slides don't work side by side on a mobile device).
I'm interested in your feedback!
21 November 2012
Author:
Olaf Lewitz
Meetings as we commonly organize and execute them are dreadful. Use Meet protocol to create the meetings we want.
Meetings as we commonly organize and execute them are dreadful. They don’t make us feel productive. They encourage alienation by coercing us into a situation where we are not sure how we can contribute. No wonder we want to spend our time elsewhere to be more effective.
A few colleagues and me are currently exploring the Core Protocols, a set of communication practices known to be helpful to create great teams. I recently started to experiment with the Meet Protocol. Meet is one of the additional protocols, combining Check In and Alignment. It let’s us establish a clean ...
16 November 2012
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
It seems that even if more than a century passed by since the invention of the Corporate structure and the ...
It seems that even if more than a century passed by since the invention of the Corporate structure and the hierarchical management, they are still the most adopted form of structure used today. How can this be? Are Corporate and Management outlasting any other technology and organisational evolution happened over the last 100 years? Or are we just having to deal with very resilient structures, which are hard to dismantle? Or did we ever even thought about challenging them? This presentation is focusing in particular on those aspects which are related to transforming a corporate into an agile company, and ...
4 October 2012
Author:
Marion Eickmann
The survival of corporations in today’s competitive environment depends on new management thinking.
“Skills shortage” is an awkward phrase, but the issue it describes is relevant for many companies. Finding the employees you need is hard. Next, you want to keep them. Money alone doesn’t make them happy. Knowledge workers expect more from a job than "just" being paid well. Attractive work environments allow their employees to work autonomously. The required responsibility needs to be encouraged by managers who change their own ways first. They have to go from classic "managing" to "agile leading".
The introduction of agile thinking and practice is a proven way to align autonomous work with your company ...
26 September 2012
Author:
Olaf Lewitz
Effect Mapping is a facilitation technique popularised in the agile and lean community by Gojko Adzic. Use it to save lots of money, by deliberately discovering the scope you need. It helps you finding out which features you really want, and eases your decisions to drop features (projects, systems) you don’t really want.
Effect Mapping (or Impact Mapping) is a facilitation technique popularised in the agile and lean community by Gojko Adzic. Use it to save lots of money, by deliberately discovering the scope you need. It helps you finding out which features you really want, and eases your decisions to drop features (projects, systems) you don’t really want.
In June, I had the pleasure to be invited to the Nordstrom Innovation Lab in Seattle to introduce a team to Effect Mapping and Feature Injection.
While I tell you the story of my session, I’ll highlight the impact you can achieve ...
16 August 2012
Author:
Andrea Tomasini
At the Agile2012 Conference in Dallas, Hendrik Esser of Ericsson and Andrea Tomasini of agile42 yesterday presented “Down The Pub—How did that transition you were working on go?”
While we're waiting for the video to be edited, we publish the slides and some information here.
At the Agile2012 Conference in Dallas, Hendrik Esser of Ericsson and Andrea Tomasini of agile42 yesterday presented “Down The Pub—How did that transition you were working on go?”
Slides
The session has been recorded, and while we're waiting for the video to be edited, download the slides:
Download pdf
Booklet
To learn more about this story, enjoy this PDF booklet called “Tales of Agile Change”:
2 February 2012
Author:
Olaf Lewitz
We currently witness the beginning of a new era. It has been given various names, as nobody is yet able to predict its nature. It’s been called the conceptual age, information is not enough anymore. Relationships become more important, where “knowledge stacks are replaced by knowledge flows”. Abundance, connections and choice change the game: “Mass is dead. Here comes weird.”
26 January 2012
Author:
Olaf Lewitz
It is quite interesting to note how little most software developers know about hardware development. Many of us take it for granted that hardware development cannot match the pace of software. While this might be true for the case of the best software teams, able to update a software system every few minutes using continuous integration, for the common pace of biweekly software delivery this is nothing more than a false assumption.
At today’s ScrumTisch, the first chosen topic by the crowd was how to do Agile with non-software teams. We started the discussion with a short list of questions:
- What to show at the end of the timebox?
- How to set the length of the timebox?
Interestingly, these questions, although raised by the audience, apparently were not hot enough to actually get discussed... (the topic Agile Beyond Software is much broader than this post, I’m just covering what was discussed tonight—a touch on the surface...)
Hardware
It turned out, that the person suggesting the topic actually had a ...
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