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Meet the Coach: Giuseppe De Simone

Agile42

Following the announcement of the public launch of agile42 in Sweden , we bring our series "Meet the Coach" to Stockholm to meet Giuseppe De Simone. Born in Italy, Giuseppe is a Certified Enterprise Coach and Certified Team Coach and his relationship with agile42 goes way back.

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Communities of Practice in Organisations: Leveraging Your Pool of Talents

Evolution4all

According to an article written by Etienne and Beverly Wenger- Trayner (2015), “Introduction to Communities of Practice” A Brief Overview of the Concept and its Uses , business organisations have readily embraced the recognition of knowledge and information being a critical asset that needs to be allocated strategically.

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Motivation to Get Better

Agile42

Group and REIDIN in 2015. Since Zingat is in a highly competitive business and being agile is the only way for them to be responsive to the market needs, they have been using Scrum and agility practices for a long time. One to one coaching was one of the achievements that implemented according to misalignment inside leaders.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

–Learning Consortium for the Creative Economy, 2015 Report (Denning, Goldstein, Pacanowsky). Experienced Agile coaches and consultants have regularly observed that the greatest impediment to transforming organizations is transforming the mindsets of its members. to which the coach replied, “Martin, now you are starting to get it.”

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 3

Accenture

In Part One of this series, I wrote about how Agile represents not merely practices like Scrum and Kanban but is rather built on a foundational set of values. Indeed, we know culture is important, and in the Agile coaching and consulting world we frequently quote Peter Drucker who said: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

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Campaigning for Dave

Agile42

The Scrum Alliance is a nonprofit organization and the largest, most established and influential professional membership group in the agile and Scrum community. Now Dave Sharrock , one of our best trainers and the founder of agile42 in North America, is running to be elected on the Board of Directors of the Scrum Alliance.

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AoAD2 Chapter 4: Investing in Agility

James Shore

There’s a wide variety of help available: occasional mentoring; training; help with process design and implementation; and full-time (or near-full-time) coaching. The most effective help you can get is to hire experienced practitioners to coach each team full-time. The same goes when hiring consultants and coaches.

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