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Boost Team Flow with this Adjacent Disciplines Exercise

Accenture

A recent white paper “What Moves You” by the Business Agility Institute revealed that as business agility continues to flourish, so will the focus on employee engagement. Organizations are now looking past team lunches and formal recognition programs to meaningful, forward-looking incentives.

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How to Sweeten a Bitter Manager, a Micromanagement Survival Guide

Xebia

Are you a developer who has to put up with a bitter manager? A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better? Mostly though, it is demotivating and, therefore, bad.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? They canceled over 1,800 flights over a weekend in 2021 that Southwest’s pilots’ union attributed to management’s “poor planning.” Does your organization have the culture to support software development?

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Facilitation in Agile: What It Is, How It Works, and Why You Need It

Exadel

Read other Exadel articles about Agile approach. The importance of having teams with diverse specialties and experience is growing, and Agile has emerged as a way to help bring those varied voices together. Agile has become the new industry standard and replaced classic directive management methods. Questioning.

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What, Exactly, Is Agile Management?

The Agile Manager

Engineers have long had a poor relationship with managers. This all seems different in Agile. Management appears to be well integrated in Agile teams, not an overhead, nuisance, or encumbrance as it is in traditional project management. What is it that makes Agile management different from traditional management?

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 1

Accenture

Once, over beers late into the evening in an old European pub not far from his office, an executive shared with me his personal Agile mindset transformation journey. It is an account that I have found representative of many when they begin to lead Business Agility transformation. But first, some background. Martin demanded.

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Agile Goes Virtual

Accenture

Employers are able to attract talent from all over the world, and employees enjoy both the diversity of multinational teams and the flexibility that comes with working remotely. Over the last year, I’ve been privileged to work with Accenture Learning as their Agile Coach. Looking for remote agile experiences?