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Q&A with Dan Szuc and Jo Wong on Make Meaningful Work

Raf Gemmail speaks with UX leaders Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong about Make Meaningful Work, a humanistic framework and set of practices born from applying human-centered design to the workplace. Sitting beneath existing methodologies, it enables teams to share and understand character perspectives, in working towards producing impacts which are meaningful to them.

Rafiq Gemmail
on Jan 05, 2018
Culture & Methods

Agile for Marketing and Communication

Agile Marketing and Communication (MarCom) bridge the IT and communication disciplines. Communication professionals started to apply agile in their projects, which has led to better collaboration and increased productivity and creativity. Professionals take on tasks outside their usual responsibilities and duties, and it's the team that decides how the work is prioritized and done.

Ben Linders
on Dec 22, 2017
Culture & Methods

Frugal Innovation: Doing More with Less

Frugal innovation provides ways to do more and better with less. It helps us to solve problems with limited resources in a sustainable way and to address inequality and empower billions of people at the bottom of the pyramid. Agile and frugal support each other; both aim to solve the problem at hand and nothing more, getting products into the hands of the users early and learning from that use.

Ben Linders
on Dec 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Agile People"

Pia-Maria Thorén has written a book titled Agile People, in which she challenges the role of Human Resources in organisations, identifies where the current approaches are not working and why they need to change to support modern organisational thinking.

Shane Hastie
on Dec 17, 2017
Culture & Methods

Scaling Agile - Master Planning Together

The first article in the series about making scaled agile work shared a true scaling agile story; the second article described the importance and the how-to’s of slicing your requirements into potential releasable epics. So now we’re ready to build on top of those slices and that common understanding; we’re ready to do the master planning together.

Ole Jepsen
on Nov 26, 2017
Culture & Methods

How Self-Organization Happens

There isn't one specific pattern that emerges from self-organization. The processes are so deep and fundamental to human interactions that you cannot enforce any specific hierarchical or non-hierarchical pattern with rules. Trust between people is an outcome of allowing people to freely self-organize. Complex networks of trust emerge and change as people continuously negotiate their relationships.

Ben Linders
on Nov 21, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Practical Kanban

The book Practical Kanban provides solutions for typical problems that continually occur within Kanban implementations. It explains how you can create a Kanban system for the entire value creation chain to coordinate the work of teams.

Klaus Leopold Ben Linders
on Nov 11, 2017
Culture & Methods

Scaling Agile - Slice and Understand Together

This second article in the series about making scaled agile work digs into how to slice requirements. If this is done right, it will not only result in good slices, but also a common understanding of the product we’re about to build or enhance.

Ole Jepsen
on Oct 29, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile

The Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile explains how disciplined agile works at different levels in the organization. It provides a framework with principles and practices to help you to streamline information technology and business processes in a context-sensitive manner.

Ben Linders
on Oct 19, 2017
Culture & Methods

Improving Corporate Cognitive Performance in IT Organisations

The biggest tool in the software engineer’s toolkit is the brain, yet few organisations go out of their way to educate and create the conditions in which the brain can work at its best. Explore the different domains of the brain and their links to the performance of software engineers and see what organisations can do to create workplaces that propagate advanced levels of cognitive performance.

Andrew Mawson
on Sep 12, 2017
Culture & Methods

Six Ways Agile Can Turn Static

Agile development in the right circumstances enables organizations to release high quality software that changes rapidly to drive businesses forward. It just doesn’t work all the time. Success requires collaboration, transparency and real-time visibility into project risk and quality.

Ronit Eliav
on Sep 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "The Stupidity Paradox"

In "The Stupidity Paradox", Andre Spicer and Mats Alvesson explore how knowledge intensive organizations employ smart people and encourage them to do stupid things. Functional stupidity can be catastrophic, however a dose of stupidity can be useful. The book advises how to counter stupidity or reduce the consequences, how to exploit it, and how to benefit from it.

Ben Linders
on Aug 20, 2017

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