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How to Change the World

Topics
Change,
Agile

Jurgen Appelo discusses introducing change inside organizations by viewing them as adaptive systems and social networks and using the Change Management 3.0 model.

News about Change

Working with Difficult People and Resistance in Scrum

Topics
Change,
Agile,
Coaching,
Adopting Agile

How do you work with difficult and uncooperative people? People who are combative or unprofessional? People who seem actively opposed to the agenda?

Selling Scrum to Your Manager?

Topics
Change,
Adopting Agile,
Agile

Trying to Sell Scrum to Management? Failing and wondering why? This often happens in the days after someone returns from a CSM course ready to help change the world.

Articles about Change

Social + Lean = Agile

Topics
Change,
Adaptive Leadership

In today’s increasingly dynamic business environment, organizations must continuously adapt to survive. Change management has become a major bottleneck. Organizations’ need a practical mechanism for managing controlled variance and change in-flight to break the logjam. This paper provides a foundation for applying lean and agile principles to achieve Enterprise Agility through social collaboration

Organizational Culture and Agile: Does it fit?

Topics
Change,
Coaching,
Agile Techniques,
Agile,
Adopting Agile

Recently, Agile Coach Michael Sahota has been exploring the impacts of organizational culture on Agile transformations. We caught up with Michael and asked him to answer a few questions for our readers.

Presentations about Change

SimpleGeo: Staying Agile at Scale

Topics
Change,
Operations,
Architecture

Mike Malone discusses principles of good and bad (software) architecture determining SimpleGeo’s architecture: deal with change, embrace failure, phased adoption, balanced security, and others.

"Post-PC Computing" Is Not a Vision

Topics
Change,
Cloud Computing,
Methodologies,
Mobile

Allen Wirfs-Brock discusses the various computing eras and the change we are currently going through, leaving the PC era and entering a new one characterized by mobility, clouds, HTML and content.

Interviews about Change

Linda Cook Discusses the Agile Coaching Profession

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Change,
Communication,
Leadership,
Agile,
Adopting Agile,
Collaboration

Linda Cook, a well-known agilist, and board member of both the Agile Alliance and the Agile Leadership Network, discusses the agile coaching profession. Among other things, she covers servant leadership, being as a role model, types of individuals appropriate for the profession, and the differences between being an external coach versus being an internal employee in the coach role.

Craig Larman on the Challenges of Scaling Scrum to Large Organizations

Topics
Change,
Agile,
Adopting Agile,
learning,
Removing Waste

In this interview, Craig Larman discusses the many challenges you face when scaling scrum to large organizations. These challenges stem from decisions to use component teams over feature teams; adopting out sourcing without careful consideration for the impact of that decision; and over specialization of skills and limited learning which leads to waste, bottlenecks, and poor performance.