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Continue reading →: RenDanHeYi — Business Agility on SteroidsHow people organize their work is, in fact, a long history with thousands of dots representing a small improvement. And it is rather a network than a straight line. People failed, learned, and improved what we today call the management. Although the boundaries of management principles are blurred, and there…
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Continue reading →: Risk management in Agile organizationsOften, I receive a question about how risk management is done in an Agile way. I believe that people expect some shiny Agile risk management framework or at least a checklist to be used. But luckily, Agile is all about the principles, and those principles already manage the risk. So, let’s…
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Continue reading →: Team of Testers is a Bad IdeaTesting should not be a rocky island. It should not be a phase but an activity. Everybody is invited. Where Testing is the Awkward +1 at the Party Separate development and testing teams? That’s like having Batman without Robin. Batman and Robin are both cool individually but better together. When testing’s given…
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Continue reading →: Agile has Scientific RootsDo you think that Agile is a fad created only to sell books and courses? Well, you are terribly wrong. Agile principles heavily rely on science. During more than a decade of teaching Agile, I noticed that pointing to the bonds between science and Agile makes people more convinced. So,…
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Continue reading →: “We don’t need that Agile meeting.”Sometimes people conclude that some of the Agile meetings are not necessary. The problem is that behind every Agile meeting is a strong purpose. So, when you say that you don’t need that meeting, you’re really saying that you don’t need the purpose behind it. So, let’s translate the “we don’t…
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Continue reading →: AI-gile coachHow good is AI currently in assisting Agile coaches? This article is about to expire “before it’s published.” Yes, I know that. But I couldn’t resist “putting in a paper” the current state of my coexistence with AI, trying to use it for my professional purposes. I gave it a test…
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Continue reading →: Scrum walks like a duck, talks like a duck — but is not a duckEven though Scrum terminology tells you that Scrum is for product or software development only, the truth is that Scrum is a generic framework that offers “adaptive solutions for complex problems.” Do you wonder why is a part of a subtitle in quotation marks? That’s because it is a quote…
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Continue reading →: WaterfallballWaterfall vs. Agile by (football) example The waterfall fairy tale Mr. Blažević, the coach, is smiling all the time. All the players are relaxed and totally convinced to win tomorrow. It’s been calculated. The Coach: “Guys, I calculated it all, compared position by position. We’re much stronger. We’re 43% stronger than…
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Continue reading →: Agile documentation cheat sheetDid you notice how people are interested in talking about documentation? I believe it is because they feel a lot of documentation, especially in an enterprise, does not bring any value. Agile documentation relies on Lean/Agile principles and brings true value to your product or service. At the same time,…
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Continue reading →: The Mighty Spellbook for Agile PeopleHello, you suffering soul trying to deal with people and projects! This mini-spellbook contains “magic words” that will make your life easier. Those spells were borrowed from the Leanlandia library more than 40 years ago and are now practiced in the Agile space mostly. “Thanks” This magical word is hard…
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Successful companies are gradually shifting their focus from individual agile frameworks to applying the fundamental principles of agility. This blog is about that shift. It’s about the simple application of agile principles to your entire organization, to individual teams, or even just to yourself.
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