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Why the Agile Manifesto Still Matters

The lack of appreciation for the relevance of the Agile Manifesto’s Values and Principles, even to the point of people “doing Agile” and not being aware of these fundamental ideas at all, can be a serious problem. This article explains why the Manifesto still matters.

Scott Duncan
on Oct 22, 2018
Culture & Methods

Managing to the Next Century - The Five Big Things for Agile Transitions

This article explores the key things to think about and prepare for when your organization is transitioning to an agile approach. He emphasizes the importance of supporting and protecting agile culture, self-organization, managing with outcomes, removing sources of waste and delay, and measuring and improving value delivered with frequent feedback.

Dave West
on Oct 13, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Humble Leadership

The book Humble Leadership by Edgar and Peter Schein explores how building personal relationships and trust gives way to leadership that enables better information flow and self-management. The authors argue that we already possess the skill to form personal relations, and suggests using them to build and strengthen relationships with the people we lead and follow.

Edgar Schein Ben Linders Peter Schein
on Oct 11, 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

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

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

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 Professional Product Owner

The book The Professional Product Owner explains what Product Owners can do to become real entrepreneurs who initiate and drive products, and what teams can do to release frequently. It provides ideas and personal anecdotes for effectively applying the Scrum Product Owner role and activities.

Ralph Jocham Ben Linders Don McGreal
on Jul 05, 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

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