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Agile Book Club: Team Dynamics

James Shore

Team dynamics form the bedrock of Agile teams’ ability to develop and deliver software. They’re the invisible undercurrents that determine your team’s culture. In this session, Diana Larsen and Linda Rising help us explore the dynamics that make and break Agile teams. Team Dynamics. ??

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

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Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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Agile Book Club: Scaling Agility

James Shore

This book club was about scaling agility, and we had a fantastic special guest joining us: Bas Vodde. LeSS is one of the earliest and most popular Agile scaling approaches, and my go-to recommendation for organizations looking to scale Agile. Bas and Craig’s book, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS , is well worth reading.

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Agile Book Club: Task Planning & Capacity

James Shore

These are all at the heart of how teams plan their day-to-day work, and that’s what we talk about in this book club session. Discussion prompts: There are two main approaches to task planning on Agile teams: time boxes (Sprints and iterations) and continuous flow (also known as Kanban). About the Book Club.

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Agile Book Club: Psychological Safety (with Gitte Klitgaard)

James Shore

It’s vital for team-based work. Gitte is an Agile coach, trainer, and mentor focusing on helping organizations implement psychological safety, responsibility, and accountability, and she wrote the section on safety in the book. Have you worked on a team where somebody had trouble speaking up? About the Book Club.

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Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!

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My talk on “Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!” My slides are posted here - Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail. A recent Forbes survey indicated to me that about 47% of Agile Transformations fail and 77% of Agile Transformations are Scrum transformations so most of the failures are due to bad Scrum.

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Scrum by Example – How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Sprint Planning is the most underappreciated Agile event. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.”. The Guide goes on to say that the team is expected to cover three topics: Why is the Sprint Valuable? We’ll use them as an example of a typical Scrum team.

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