Diana Larsen discusses how Agile can help to overcome 3 management traps – magical thinking, illusion of control, individual blame – by relying on data and evidence, accepting uncertainty and unpredictability, and maintaining a whole systems view.
Diana Larsen, a member of the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, leads a lot of retrospectives... So, it's not surprising that, when she asked herself "Where is Agile going now?" her response was to run a retrospective of her own. She circulated a survey to the other Agile Alliance board members, and has compiled a picture of the trends they're seeing in the Agile world.
In this interview Diana Larsen speaks with Patrick Copeland on the concept of Pretotyping and how and when it should be used. They discuss the Lean movement, focusing on customer discovery and how Google fosters an intrapreneurial spirit within its workforce.
In this interview, Diana Larsen gives her perspective on the value of trust in an Agile development environment. Larsen talks of trust, authenticity and forgiveness as being key to teaming efforts. Trust is the glue that holds teams together. Authenticity is showing one’s true self to the team. And forgiveness is critical in rebuilding trust on a team if it is somehow broken.
