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Mapping the Market for Agile Coaches

In July, 2018 five agilists, including the two authors of this article, met in San Francisco to map the market for agile coaches. We met because the market appears to be very strong over the short-term but weak over the long-term. This article is the result of that investigation, it discusses how much agile coaches make, where they work, and what the future holds for the agile coaching market.

Michael de la Maza Alexander Frumkin Elaine Bulloch
on Oct 09, 2018
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A - A Guide to Distributed Agile Framework

InfoQ contributors and distributed team experts Hugo Messer, John Okoro and Savita Pahuja have expanded on their articles and minibook on working effectively in distributed teams and published a book titled Distributed Agile Framework. They present a framework for distributed organisations and teams who want to use an agile approach to delivering customer value.

John Okoro Savita Pahuja Hugo Messer Shane Hastie
on Oct 04, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agile in the Context of a Holistic Approach

In this article Jon Kern, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, describes a set of critical practices that serve to build up a holistic view of the project, from which all else proceeds. Fail to do a good job at taking the systems view, and your project will likely not go as well as it could. It might even fail.

Jon Kern
on Oct 01, 2018
Culture & Methods

Scaling Autonomy at Zalando

Autonomy isn't something you can just give to a team, it’s something that teams learn and earn over time. It has to come with accountability to amplify working towards a purpose. At Zalando, creating the right architecture and organizational structure reduced the amount of alignment needed and freed up the energy to be more thorough where alignment is needed.

Ben Linders Eric Bowman
on Sep 30, 2018
Culture & Methods

Scrum The Toyota Way

Toyota Connected uses Scrum combined with the Toyota Production System to deliver Lean Production, enabling teams to deliver rapid PDCA cycles. Scrum of Scrums, Meta Scrum, and the chief product owner, are some of the approaches used to scale Scrum for multiple teams and products. Agility is not the goal. It’s a result, an outcome.

Nigel Thurlow Ben Linders
on Sep 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Author Q&A Continuous Digital and Project Myopia

Allan Kelly has recently released two complimentary books which address ways of working in modern digital businesses. “Continuous Digital” addresses the way organisations need to structure themselves when “every business is a digital business”. “Project Myopia” explores more of the underlying theory of #NoProjects and explains why the continuous culture is so important.

Allan Kelly Shane Hastie
on Sep 25, 2018
Culture & Methods

Are You the Barrier to Innovation?

You've adopted technologies like SOA and microservices to keep your infrastructure future-proof. So why do you still struggle to innovate? It's not your technology - it's your culture. Rob Zazueta explains how focusing on an agile culture may be more beneficial for your organization than adopting the latest architectural trends.

Robert Zazueta
on Sep 12, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agile Transformation at Ericsson

Applying complex systems thinking, growing the agile mindset through storytelling, and visualizing the interplay; these are some of the things that drove the agile transformation at Ericsson. Having a leadership team that fully embraced agility, an independent group of agile coaches, and doing frequent retrospectives in the leadership team ensured that the transformation stayed on track.

Hendrik Esser Ben Linders
on Sep 10, 2018
Culture & Methods

Adopting Continuous Delivery at teamplay, Siemens Healthineers

Continuous Delivery is about working in a way that keeps the system in a releasable state throughout its development. This article describes how a large software development organization at Siemens Healthineers started the transformation towards Continuous Delivery. It describes the strategy and tactics used to gradually and safely change the development process in a regulated medical domain.

Vladyslav Ukis Dave Farley
on Sep 04, 2018
Culture & Methods

Four Ways to Take Charge in Your First Agile Project

Dudharejia dives into the details of Agile, as well as the Scrum process. The overarching lesson throughout this post is how newbies can take charge in an Agile project. The post discusses the importance of meetings, identifying strengths and weaknesses, using your team to the fullest extent, and how to avoid micromanaging.

Manish Dudharejia
on Aug 31, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Future-Ready Organization: An Interview with Agile Manifesto Co-Author Arie Van Bennekum

Co-Author of the Agile Manifesto and Thought Leader, Arie van Bennekum is probably one of the rare co-authors of the Agile Manifesto who never lost touch with the essence of agile. To become agile, people and organizations must shift to a totally different paradigm. Arie designed an Integrated Agile Transformation Model, a proven approach to transforming organizations to new agile paradigms.

Shaaron A Alvares
on Aug 24, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems

The book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems by Nancy Van Schooenderwoert and Brian Shoemaker explains how agile principles and practices can be used to build quality in from the start to develop medical and other safety-critical systems.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Ben Linders Brian Shoemaker
on Aug 15, 2018