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Announcing the Agile Sustainability Initiative

Agile Alliance

MARCH 14, 2023

Join the Agile Sustainability Initiative to create awareness about sustainability. Get involved and gain knowledge, tools, and inspiration to create a sustainable future for all. The post Announcing the Agile Sustainability Initiative first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Sustainability Tools

EDGE: Value-driven digital transformation

Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Milestone-Kanban: A hybrid project scheduling technique

Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) combines traditional & Agile project management to handle projects where deliverables are clear but time & effort are uncertain. The post Milestone-Kanban: A hybrid project scheduling technique first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Project Management

Webinars

Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Feedback Frenzy: Restoring Customer and Internal Alignment for Product Success

MORE WEBINARS

Getting Things Done with Mob Programming

Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Andy Kwong, Rei Pamintuan, Aaron Griffith, and Austin Chadwick share not only horror stories of things not getting done in their past, but also joyous stories of things actually getting done today – with Mob Programming. The post Getting Things Done with Mob Programming first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Programming

Programming Agile

An interview with outgoing board member Craig Smith

Agile Alliance

JANUARY 27, 2023

An interview with Craig Smith about what it was like to serve on the Agile Alliance board, including the highs and lows, some surprising things they learned, and more. The post An interview with outgoing board member Craig Smith first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Is an Agile Coach Camp for you?

Agile Alliance

JANUARY 17, 2023

The magic behind the format of a coach camp lies in the fact that the topics emerge from the attendees’ needs and curiosity, which adds deeper learning to the experience. The post Is an Agile Coach Camp for you? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Coaching

Immersion Day on Agile – Costa Rica

Agile Alliance

JANUARY 3, 2023

Most of us have witnessed how a conference or event can become a transforming, eye-opening experience. Whether it happened at the beginning or at some point along our Agile journey, we are lucky and blessed to have had that experience. The post Immersion Day on Agile – Costa Rica first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Conference

What’s the value proposition of coaches?

Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Learn how to sell yourself to organizations that don't understand the value of coaches or that might be looking to do away with them when times are tough. The post What’s the value proposition of coaches? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Coaching

Coaching Agile Organization How To

Fishbowl with Jenny Tarwater

Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In this fishbowl session, Jenny Tarwater answers questions about how to have fun in an Agile atmosphere. The post Fishbowl with Jenny Tarwater first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile How To

“Improv!” with Jessie Shternshus

Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this session, Jessie Shternshus explores how we can use improv to help us be more Agile. The post “Improv!” with Jessie Shternshus first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

“Fun!” with Jenny Tarwater

Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this session, Jenny Tarwater explores how we can use fun to help us be more Agile. The post “Fun!” with Jenny Tarwater first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

“Drawing!” with Ashanti Gardner

Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In this session, Ashanti Gardner explores how we can use drawing to help us be more Agile. The post “Drawing!” with Ashanti Gardner first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Why do we need to submit this year?

Agile Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2022

You’ve read enough by now about what the pandemic did to us all. We fled our office spaces trying to stay safe. In-person events were canceled because we all weren’t comfortable attending. Everyone retreated into our homes where we, many of us still to this day, wrapped a cocoon around our homes trying to keep … Continued. The post Why do we need to submit this year?

Agile

Results from the 2023 Board election

Agile Alliance

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Meet your new 2023-2026 Board members The 2023 Agile Alliance Board of Directors election is in the books! We want you to get to know your new representatives, so we asked each new Board member three questions. Keep reading for more details about their careers. Please welcome Margareth Carneiro, who has three decades … Continued. The post Results from the 2023 Board election first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Meeting

The fury of OKRs

Agile Alliance

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Objectives and key results are in vogue all over. And while they can certainly be valuable, unfortunately, bad practices have run wild in the world of OKRs. The post The fury of OKRs first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

User Stories: A Pragmatic View

Agile Alliance

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams

Agile Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A detailed framework for leaders to move past outdated workplace blame and shame strategies to cultivate resilient teams capable of facing adversity and setbacks confidently. The post Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Strategy

Survival Metrics: Helping Teams Pivot to Change Instead of Planning to Failure

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

How do you know if your team is focused on the right thing? Product teams often know that a project needs to change direction, but they don’t have a way to make that change quickly and safely, especially when so much work has gone into the product, so far. The post Survival Metrics: Helping Teams Pivot to Change Instead of Planning to Failure first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Metrics

Metrics Agile

Useful Metrics for Agile Teams

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

If you want to know that you are making progress, you need to measure. You have to be able to compare your current state to a prior state in order to know if you are progressing toward the desired (or expected) outcome. The post Useful Metrics for Agile Teams first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Metrics

Modeling Better Decisions

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In this skit-based presentation, follow "Skylar" through a day in their life as they face one problem after another. After they navigates each issue, we'll pause to reflect. The post Modeling Better Decisions first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Environmental Impact of Digital Products

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Do you know what are the sustainability targets for your organization? Do you believe going digital is good for our climate and environment? The post Environmental Impact of Digital Products first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Sustainability Organization

“We Have the Data”: Four Small Words, the Biggest Trap in Software, and How to Cope

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Four simple words can frighten any knowledgeable technologist: “We have the data.” No English sentence packs as many potential misunderstandings, half-truths, and booby traps into as few words and no enterprise or project is immune to the expensive missteps that can result. The post “We Have the Data”: Four Small Words, the Biggest Trap in Software, and How to Cope first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Software

Software Data How To Agile

Paved with Good Intentions

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The problems remain the same. Legacy systems. Disengaged employees. Defects all around. Long delays getting software released. Being left behind by the competition. But why does everyone run into the same problems? The post Paved with Good Intentions first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Software System

Building a Radical Culture of Culture Building

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Many organizations struggle to collaborate across organizational boundaries. One solution is to invest in a Culture of Culture Building. The post Building a Radical Culture of Culture Building first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Culture

Culture Agile Organization

Components of Kick-A$$ Collaboration

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

So you joined a self-organizing team and everything was instantly perfect. The team openly shares, deliberates and efficiently comes to full agreement. Everything is by consensus, everybody participates, and all of your decisions are above average. The post Components of Kick-A$$ Collaboration first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Organization

Avoiding the Trap of “Good Enough” Agile Coaching

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

There are oodles of lite to moderately skilled and well-intentioned agile coaches in the world who are doing their best to help their teams and organizations transform. The post Avoiding the Trap of “Good Enough” Agile Coaching first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Coaching Organization

What You Need to Know About Human Centered Design and Hearing the Voice of the Customer

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Product failure rates are massive. How massive? According to Clayton Christensen, former Harvard Business School professor, 95% of new products fail. The post What You Need to Know About Human Centered Design and Hearing the Voice of the Customer first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You are passionate about software development, or product management, or leadership, or user experience, or documentation, or organization, or something else. The post Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Software Development

Software Development Agile Product Management Leadership

Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It's hard to practice coaching a team or an organization. without actually coaching a team or organization. So, we've created a set of "Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure" games similar to our other coaching games, but focused on teams and organizations. The post Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Coaching

Coaching Agile Games Organization

Energize Without Using Power Over

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

No leader wants to walk into a conversation-filled room, only to have everyone go silent and stare at them. Too frequently, this is followed with an attempt to diminish the power dynamics with "just consider me one of the team.". The post Energize Without Using Power Over first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

No one is immune from the impact of Global Inequality. Whether it’s hiring diverse talent, retaining diverse talent or creating an environment that fosters innovation, creativity and belonging. The post Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Innovation

Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping

Agile Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In a company, department, or team, we will often talk about “strategy”. This term is rarely well defined, or at least not defined in a way that is useful. The post Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Strategy Company

Deliver Value: Happy Contributing People, Satisfied Customers, Thriving Business

Agile Alliance

AUGUST 31, 2022

Belonging and Healing: Creating Awesomeness for yourself and others

Agile Alliance

JULY 15, 2022

Agile Approaches to Policy Development

Agile Alliance

JUNE 29, 2022

To both understand the implications of EU’s proposed AI Act and involve relevant stakeholders in the process we have adopted an agile approach to policy development. The post Agile Approaches to Policy Development first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Policies Development

The Unpredictable Bean Counters

Agile Alliance

JUNE 16, 2022

This is an experience report sharing the findings and learnings of an agile coach trying to make small changes to a large organization, only to fail to change much of anything. While they journey and the struggle goes on to grow and evolve, there is still much to learn. The post The Unpredictable Bean Counters first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Coaching Report Organization

Agile product delivery in the pandemic’s remote work environment

Agile Alliance

JUNE 16, 2022

The Covid pandemic with its unprecedented lockdowns and border closures has caused global business disruptions that most of us haven’t witnessed ever before. One of the biggest challenges for many of us Agile leaders has been adapting our human centric, collaborative ways of working to the remote working compulsions imposed by the pandemic. The post Agile product delivery in the pandemic’s remote work environment first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Scrum Las Estrategias del Juego: Es Póker, No Ajedrez

Agile Alliance

JUNE 6, 2022

Este libro le muestra cómo usar Scrum para crear una mano ganadora a partir de las cartas que le han repartido. The post Scrum Las Estrategias del Juego: Es Póker, No Ajedrez first appeared on Agile Alliance.

SCRUM

SCRUM Agile

Protected: Lightning Talks: Your Chance to Share at Agile2022

Agile Alliance

APRIL 18, 2022

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Lightning Talks: Your Chance to Share at Agile2022 first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Transforming business models in the pandemic

Agile Alliance

APRIL 13, 2022

In pre-Covid times would you think that car sales companies will accompany you on test drives via FaceTime? Or that during online live shows you could get drinks with one click delivered to your doors? The post Transforming business models in the pandemic first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Testing Company

Tyranny of Taylorism and how to Detect Agile BS

Agile Alliance

APRIL 13, 2022

Even those that developed and industrialised waterfall no longer believe it has value, and they still struggle with the tyranny of Taylorism. The post Tyranny of Taylorism and how to Detect Agile BS first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile How To Development

Using Agile Principles for improving Gender Inclusion in Tech

Agile Alliance

APRIL 13, 2022

Agile Principles can be used for all different kinds of projects, and my team and I used them for building a coding boot camp for girls in Pakistan. The post Using Agile Principles for improving Gender Inclusion in Tech first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Tips and traps for using assessments well

Agile Alliance

APRIL 12, 2022

Commencing their Agile journey in 2015, Company X enlisted myself and 2 other coaches in 2018 to provide more insight as to how teams were progressing, as they had not seen any tangible improvements in their transformation overall. The post Tips and traps for using assessments well first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Coaching Company

The process to solving anything

Agile Alliance

APRIL 11, 2022

How would you like to crack the code of learning how to solve anything? Yes that's right, anything! Bold claim but this talk is using core solution focused coaching techniques and the art of co-creation, The post The process to solving anything first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Agile

Agile Coaching How To

Agile Alliance

Announcing the Agile Sustainability Initiative

EDGE: Value-driven digital transformation

Webinars

Trending Sources

Milestone-Kanban: A hybrid project scheduling technique

Webinars

Getting Things Done with Mob Programming

An interview with outgoing board member Craig Smith

Is an Agile Coach Camp for you?

Immersion Day on Agile – Costa Rica

What’s the value proposition of coaches?

Fishbowl with Jenny Tarwater

“Improv!” with Jessie Shternshus

“Fun!” with Jenny Tarwater

“Drawing!” with Ashanti Gardner

Why do we need to submit this year?

Results from the 2023 Board election

The fury of OKRs

User Stories: A Pragmatic View

Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams

Survival Metrics: Helping Teams Pivot to Change Instead of Planning to Failure

Useful Metrics for Agile Teams

Modeling Better Decisions

Environmental Impact of Digital Products

“We Have the Data”: Four Small Words, the Biggest Trap in Software, and How to Cope

Paved with Good Intentions

Building a Radical Culture of Culture Building

Components of Kick-A$$ Collaboration

Avoiding the Trap of “Good Enough” Agile Coaching

What You Need to Know About Human Centered Design and Hearing the Voice of the Customer

Questions to Ask in Your Next Job Interview

Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure

Energize Without Using Power Over

Create Belonging, Deliver Value While Ending Global Inequality – Sarucia & Kvedaras

Looking Ahead Using Wardley Mapping

Deliver Value: Happy Contributing People, Satisfied Customers, Thriving Business

Belonging and Healing: Creating Awesomeness for yourself and others

Agile Approaches to Policy Development

The Unpredictable Bean Counters

Agile product delivery in the pandemic’s remote work environment

Scrum Las Estrategias del Juego: Es Póker, No Ajedrez

Protected: Lightning Talks: Your Chance to Share at Agile2022

Transforming business models in the pandemic

Tyranny of Taylorism and how to Detect Agile BS

Using Agile Principles for improving Gender Inclusion in Tech

Tips and traps for using assessments well

The process to solving anything

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