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Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility

The book Enterprise Agility by Sunil Mundra aims to make you think about organizations as living systems that thrive on fast paced change. It’s intended for leaders, managers, and coaches, who want to improve the agility of their organization and develop the personal traits that enable change.

Ben Linders Sunil Mundra
on Aug 07, 2018
Architecture & Design

Agile: Reflective Practice and Application

We explore how successful software development is based on the following three intertwining thought processes: Systems Thinking, Community Context and Reflective Practices. A majority of unsuccessful transformations result from a failure by members of the team to grasp that they are contributing to a larger system, or an unwillingness to learn how to improve, or that software is a team sport.

John Yorke
on Aug 04, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agnostic Agile: The Key to a Successful Lean Agile Transformation

Agnostic Agile principles facilitate and accelerate both the organization’s transformation as well as its Lean Agile evolution. Internalizing the Lean Agile Values and Principles are key to a successful Lean Agile transformation. Organizational complexity demands a multi-framework approach. A dogmatic, prescriptive approach to Agile is not only dangerous but is not Agile at all.

Tim Guay
on Jul 27, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy

The book The Pragmatist's Guide to Corporate Lean Strategy explores how to practically adopt lean enterprise and lean startup concepts to turn your company into a lean agile enterprise promoting business agility. It provides examples from companies that have applied these concepts, describes the strategy, best practices, anti-patterns, and gives insights into lean and agile transformations.

Michael Nir Ben Linders
on Jun 24, 2018
Culture & Methods

The Cost of Fear in Organisational Change

In this article Juncu explores the factors which cause fear of change in organisations and what it costs, how to challenge the status quo and provides advice on overcoming some of the limiting factors. She explores four common practices which feel like they reduce risk but actually exacerbate the challenges faced by organisations in the dynamic, fast moving world where adapting to change is vital

Oana Juncu
on Jun 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on The Agile Developer's Handbook

The book The Agile Developer’s Handbook by Paul Flewelling provides the fundamentals of agile and explores intermediate and advanced topics like metrics for delivery, technical practices, delivering value, team dynamics, building quality in, and becoming an agile organization.

Rafiq Gemmail Ben Linders Paul Flewelling
on Jun 08, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Agile Management

The book Agile Management by Mike Hoogveld explores how the agile principles and values can be implemented in an agile way to improve the flexibility and entrepreneurship within organizations. It shows how the “voice of the customer” should be the starting point for designing the products, services, channels and processes you offer to your customers.

Ben Linders
on Apr 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Company-Wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy

In the book Company-wide Agility with Beyond Budgeting, Open Space & Sociocracy, Jutta Eckstein and John Buck combined and integrated principles and practices from general streams of development and created a multi-disciplinary approach for company-wide agile adoption.

Ben Linders
on Mar 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Age of Agile

The book The Age of Agile by Steve Denning defines the goals, values, principles, and techniques for Agile management together with stories about how large organizations are applying this to deliver value on a large scale.

Ben Linders
on Mar 26, 2018
Culture & Methods

Beyond Copy-Pasting Methods: Navigating Complexity

This article explores how you can try out a context-specific approach, which leads to a context-specific experience. Once we understand more about the complexity behind the problems which we are trying to solve with agile, we clarify the purpose of our agile practice. This is the starting point from which we can build a common focus and sense of priority within our agile culture.

Bernhard Sterchi
on Mar 16, 2018
Culture & Methods

PAL (Planned Agile Leadership) Schedule

Develop a PAL Schedule to harmonize agile methodologies with static package Go Live dates to enable a visual representation of planned project progress, enable the same methodologies used at an agile sprint level to control the project at a high level, act as a harness for quantifiable and measurable high-level deliverables, coordinate project activities and enrich meaningful communication.

Leigh Koetter
on Feb 11, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book The Age of Surge

In the book The Age of Surge, Brad Murphy and Carol Mase explore a human-centered approach to scaling agility and transforming companies for digital. The book describes the Digital Wave Model which companies can use to disrupt organizational structures and business functions and re-create them to fit the digital landscape.

Ben Linders
on Jan 26, 2018