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Three Scaling Agile Maxims

My Three Scaling Agile Maxims Nail it before you scale it. Stitch it to flip it. Fake it, and you won’t make it. Here's why? Nail it before you scale it. Do you know what good looks like? What will be fit for your organization’s purpose?  Don’t get impatient and try...

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Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks

When an enterprise scales to the point where multiple teams must continuously integrate their work to deliver customer value, coordination challenges inevitably explode. The industry response to this challenge has been an obsession with comparing Agile Scaling...

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Coaching Tenets

Situational awareness can enable Agile leaders to empower others to problem-solve  If the situation is about:- a knowledge gap, then teach;- a skill gap, then mentor;- an options gap, then consult;- a personal growth gap, then coach. I don’t always coach, but when I...

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The Agile Manifesto Principles Explained

I started my agile journey twenty years ago. At the time, I was a Java programmer and a UML modeler, and I lucked into working in an XP team. Joining an experienced XP team was uncomfortable at first. The practices were very different from what I was used to. Kent...

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Technology Adoption Curve and the Chasm

Summary of takeaways from Geoffery Moore’s book, Crossing the chasm. Since its first publication in 1991, it has been a canon for marketing and sales decision-making in product management. The groups in the technology adoption cycle represent a unique psychographic...

Immutability of Scrum Framework

In Defense of Immutability of the Scrum framework

Imagine a stencil. It leaves the insides open to your implementation. You can place your stencil on paper, color the interiors, make intricate patterns, or trace along the boundary. The outcome holds the same shape regardless of the fill you choose to put. Similarly,...

Conflict Escalation Ladder

The Conflict Escalation Ladder

Disagreements are not conflicts. Disagreements are a healthy part of a collaborative dynamic, but conflicts are not. The critical outcome is that people strengthen their relationships as they work through disagreements, whereas the result of the conflict is that...

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Agile Leadership Training Experience Report

Hi! I'm Jonathan Evans, and if you're like me, you're always looking for ways to improve yourself and your skill set. I'm transitioning in my career and knew that getting Scrum Alliance Agile Leadership Training and Certification was essential to increase my...

Can agile be applied to any kind of project?

Can agile be applied to any kind of project?

For the great majority of us, the term project management is related to the compilation of steps taken to develop a project from beginning to end. Most of these steps are more logical to some of us than others.  You basically divide the project into sections, where...