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#LearningIsHorrible, and Other Harsh Realities
Jeffrey Fredrick talks about how human psychology works against successful Agile adoption and that seeking excellence in Agile development requires difficult emotional work.
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Why Only Agile Organizations Will Survive
Chris Kruppa covers the reason for adopting Agile, why it is necessary and how organizations can inspire their teams to embrace Agile values without imposing it.
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Applying the Agile Mindset to Tough Business Challenges
Shane Hastie examines the underlying drivers and motivation for adopting Agile, explores what an Agile mindset actually means and shows how to apply the ideas embodied in the Agile Manifesto.
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The Project Manager as a Positive Agent for Agile
Graham Dick takes a look at the role of the PM, challenging PMs to become active advocates for Agile by further developing facilitation skills and leading a revolution in their organization.
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Putting People First – Building and Sustaining Awesome Distributed Teams at Scale
Mike Breeze and Ma Qiang share the story of a distributed team and its Agile transformation, placing individuals and interactions over processes and tools and avoiding the dark side of Agile.
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Agile Projects to Agile Organizations: The Journey
Margaret Morgan discusses adopting an Agile mindset which is not only about IT delivery but also to maximize productivity, quality and responsiveness to changing markets and priorities.
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Drive: How We Used Daniel Pink's Work to Create a Happier, More Motivated Workplace
David Mole discusses what happens to an organization when focusing on happiness and motivation as your key measures and all the other KPI’s take a backseat.
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Transforming a Public Sector Company: Journey to Agile
Ardita Karaj and Jason Little present their company’s journey to Agile using Lean Startup, contractor/internal coaches, culture hacking, ADKAR, Kanban, Innovation Games, and others.
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Overcoming Resistance to Change
Rachel Davies tells stories of successful changes that she has introduced with XP product development teams at Unruly, sharing tips for overcoming resistance and adopting new working practices.
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Agile Means Business, so Learn to Think like the CxO
Lee Cunningham discusses the primary concerns of different executive-level roles and explores ways to relate Agile principles and practices to the concerns of the executives in the organization.
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Open Agile Adoption - Reaching Escape Velocity
Stuart Turner explains how to achieve both rapid and sustained transformation with Open Agile Adoption which combines games, rites-of-passage and other techniques into a framework.
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Designing an Impediment Removal Process for Your Organization
Ken Power looks at how to enable work to flow through an organization by designing an impediment removal process, and how to foster such a culture from teams to executives.