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The Day I Became Unnecessary - Part 2

In the second of two articles Claudio Kerber talks about his experiences in team formation and collaboration and explains the process whereby he "became unnecessary" as the team he was working with built trust and cohesion through trust, shared knowledge and shared experiences. He examines the theoretical underpinnings and discusses ways in which servant leadership emerges.

Claudio Kerber
on Apr 09, 2012
The Day I Became Unnecessary - Part 1

In the first of two articles Claudio Kerber talks about his experiences in team formation and collaboration and how empowerment, refinement and facilitation enable the free flow of knowledge and value across team members and how cohesion emerges in collaborative teams.

Claudio Kerber
on Mar 27, 2012
Agile Development Team Charter

Project Charters have rightfully focused on scope & goals for the project. However, team members can be unclear on their roles, activities, and expectations. This is especially true for people new to Agile. The Agile Development Team Charter addresses this gap by reviewing the Agile Prime Directive, Incremental Innovation Statements, and Team Member User Stories to provide clarity and context.

Terry Bunio
on Feb 27, 2012
10 tips on how to prevent business value risk

One category of risk that project teams need to ensure they address is business value failure – delivering a product that fails to provide value for the business investor. The authors provide insight into the underlying causes of business value risk and provide ten tips on how to avoid them.

Chris Matts Olav Maassen
on Feb 07, 2012
Agile Adoption – Vital Behaviours and Influence Strategies

Steve is interested in uncovering better ways to deliver successful projects regardless of whether or not those ways are ‘agile’. After reading "Influencer, the Power to Change Anything" he found a set of behaviours and influence strategies that are helpful for giving projects the best chance for success and also for helping teams transition to agile.

Steve Rogalsky
on Dec 01, 2011
Test automation and Continuous Delivery

This article shows how automating certain programmable aspects of a test suite can help software delivery. Covered are automated testing, costs per deployment, tests as documentation & manual testing.

Ranjan D Sakalley
on Oct 21, 2011
Agile is at a crossroad: Scale or fail?

Risk management is the hottest topic in IT. Processes for effective risk management and investment decision making will allow Agile techniques to scale beyond projects to the enterprise. Without them, Agile will be confined to the ghetto of development. In this article Chris and Olav present some tools and techniques to identify and manage risks on Agile projects.

Chris Matts Olav Maassen
on Oct 14, 2011
Culture & Methods

Agile Hybridization - Novel Experimentation or "They just don't get it."

Chris Goldsbury discusses the perceived conflict between waterfall and agile processes and identifies a set of context factors that provide guidelines for adopting an appropriate hybrid process between the two.

Christopher Goldsbury
on Oct 05, 2011
Organizational Culture and Agile: Does it fit?

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.

Todd Charron
on Sep 26, 2011
Liz Keogh: 10 years of Agile - the Prophecy of Failure, and the Failure of Prophecy

Liz Keogh, recipient of the Gordon Pask award in 2010, discusses the predictions of Agile as a fad and how the movement has stood the test of time over the last ten years. She warns against complacency and of ignoring the manifesto value of "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" in our examination of Agile principles and practices - Agile itself must evolve to remain relevant.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 13, 2011
Design For Hybrid Agile Adoption

Offshore Development is a critical success factor for many organizations as is adopting Agile methodologies. However, these two techniques have never worked well together. Overcoming this challenge, “Design for Hybrid Agile Adoption (DH2A)”, is a methodology defined to successfully execute Agile projects in a distributed and out-sourced environment. This article provides an overview of DH2A.

Upadrista Venkatesh
on Sep 01, 2011
Elisabeth Hendrickson: Agile - An Inclusive Community

Elisabeth Hendrickson, 2010 winner of the Gordon Pask award, talks about the collaborative nature of the agile community and how it has changed the nature of work in organisations large and small. She reflects on how the community has changed over the years and become more and more inclusive, and invites one and all to join the conversation and contribute to the changes happening in the workplace.

Elisabeth Hendrickson
on Aug 10, 2011

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