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Lessons learned from a decade of Agile Coaching

10 tips that might help especially if you are a new agile coach, but maybe even if you have some experience under your belt. — In the summer of 2012, while I was busy window shopping in one of the malls in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, I received a call from an ex-manager. I was a project manager at that time and had heard of the agile manifesto and done a bit of dabbling in Scrum…

Agile

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Lessons learned from a decade of Agile Coaching
Lessons learned from a decade of Agile Coaching

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Is your Agile Transformation ship stuck in troubled political waters?

Navigate successfully with these 4 considerations and get it to a safe harbour — Javier is an agile transformation coach leading a major initiative around business agility in a large global enterprise. The program has the blessings of senior executives and is well funded. Yet it struggles, and Javier often feels like the captain of a ship in the middle of a storm. The…

Agile

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Is your Agile Transformation ship stuck in troubled political waters?
Is your Agile Transformation ship stuck in troubled political waters?

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A complexity conscious approach to measure your Agile team’s productivity

A purely quantitative targets-based approach sets up teams to compete with each other instead of creating a culture of trust and collaboration. There might be a better way. — I worked for a large financial services client on a year-long assignment a few years ago. It was complex development work, with everyone focused on improving the predictability and productivity of the teams. Regulatory deadlines, tricky business flows, unpredictable team dynamics and a complex multi-vendor environment made it difficult for…

Complexity

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A complexity conscious approach to measure your Agile team’s productivity
A complexity conscious approach to measure your Agile team’s productivity

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10 Mental Models Every Agile Coach should know

Model-based thinking requires training the mind, most notably developing an ability to stop and think. Personally, looking through the lens of a particular model often led me to a much better understanding of the problems and sometimes even redefining the problem itself. …

Agile

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10 Mental Models Every Agile Coach should know
10 Mental Models Every Agile Coach should know

Jul 16

Don’t be a bystander. 6 steps you can take to be the Leader who makes Agile Transformation happen

Concrete Steps you can take as a Leader to help your organisation leap towards agility. — Organizational change has always been a challenging task. The process of starting something new often leads to uncertainty and insecurity. More so, when the end state after the change is not fully comprehended. Such situations are often the case in large-scale enterprise agile transformations. Leading people through such times is…

Agile

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Don’t be a bystander. 6 steps you can take to be the Leader who makes Agile Transformation happen
Don’t be a bystander. 6 steps you can take to be the Leader who makes Agile Transformation happen

Jul 11

Large IT Projects are Complex Adaptive Systems — You need to Manage More & Control Less

Complexity is why agile is so easy to understand but challenging to implement. A better appreciation of how complex systems work learning to manage them instead of forcing control helps. In Appreciating the Complexity, we discussed how large IT projects qualify as complex adaptive systems. Appreciating our systems and acknowledging…

Complexity

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Large IT Projects are Complex Adaptive Systems — You need to Manage More & Control Less
Large IT Projects are Complex Adaptive Systems — You need to Manage More & Control Less

Jul 3

Embrace Messy Coherence to get a jump start on your agile transformation

Complexity and Sense Making fundamentals for Agile Coaches — Frameworks towards agile (and these days business agility) ultimately aim to establish efficiency, alignment and homogeneity in the organisation. Are these worthy goals, though? Is agility the only goal for an organisation, or is it essential to ensure that they are resilient and anti-fragile too? Does homogeneity stand in the…

Complexity

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Embrace Messy Coherence to get a jump start on your agile transformation
Embrace Messy Coherence to get a jump start on your agile transformation

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·Jul 1

Want innovation? Create a culture where people are not afraid to take the long shots

This is an interesting one from #SundarPichai. He is not saying outcomes are not important. Outcomes definitely are, However, If you really want to build an innovative culture, one where people strive to think and break boundaries, they need to take the long shots and some of those shots will…

Sundar Pichai

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Want innovation? Create a culture where people are not afraid to take the long shots
Want innovation? Create a culture where people are not afraid to take the long shots

Want innovation? Create a culture where people are not afraid to take the long shots

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This is an interesting one from #SundarPichai. He is not saying outcomes are not important. Outcomes definitely are,

However, If you really want to build an innovative culture, one where people strive to think and break boundaries, they need to take the long shots and some of those shots will…

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Published in Agile and beyond !

·Jun 26

Should you have a phone call, video call or meet face-to-face?

One of the 12 principles in the agile manifesto states: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. However given the distributed nature of the world we live in, is it always possible or practical to form co-located development teams…

Distributed Agile

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Should you have a phone call, video call or meet face-to-face?
Should you have a phone call, video call or meet face-to-face?

Jun 26

Is Agile struggling because “they” don’t have the agile mindset? 3 Questions to uncover the truth

Mindset, or rather a lack of it, is often cited as the core reason that Agile implementations struggle. Well, they “never fail” technically — at least on the PowerPoint. However, there is no agility. The situation pre and post-transformation is more or less the same — with new terminologies inducted and everyone around cribbing that we have everything except the “agile mindset”. — What is mindset?

Agile Mindset

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Is Agile struggling because “they” don’t have the agile mindset? 3 Questions to uncover the truth
Is Agile struggling because “they” don’t have the agile mindset? 3 Questions to uncover the truth
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