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Anti-Management? No, Different Management

There was a thread on Twitter talking about Agile being anti-management. No, it's much more radical than that. [...]

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Autonomy and Transparency: Both or Neither

How does transparency feel? Early in my career, I had an occasion to experience that. I was working in a typical organization where lots of things, payroll included, were secrets. Then the salary list leaked out. It wasn’t a huge leak, i.e. it didn’t go public, but I was close enough to the source that […] [...]

Shut the door and listen from outside

At a certain point, you start to finish each other’s statements. Teams that have been together for a while can breed a sort of shorthand in their communication. This has a lot of upsides, but it can also cause, for example, predictable retrospectives. Retrospectives should trigger learning and improvement. When they become predictable I feel […] The post Shut the door and listen from outside appeared first on Xebia Blog. [...]

Overhead? Maybe not.

Sprints, Iterations, Cadences, Continuous Flow. Planning sessions, daily scrums, retrospectives, increment reviews. Are these all, in the end, overhead to be eliminated along the way to some Agile Nirvana? [...]

Technical Skills

A couple of people asked me to list all the technical skills required in order to do Agile Software Development. I can't do that, but I can do this. [...]

Lamenting the passing of the Golden Age of presentation visuals

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Sleepwalking Through Scrum

How do we recognize when the way we’re “doing Scrum“ is impeding our Agility? Two alternative scenarios are possible: The Team has fully internalized Agile[1] practice in the past but now seems to be sleepwalking through the Ceremonies[2]: the Team’s Agile practice has gotten stale, we’re sleepwalking through Scrum. The Team hasn’t experienced Agile practice […] The post Sleepwalking Through Scrum appeared first on 3Back. [...]

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Humanizing Work Season 1 Finale: Why Now?

Why now? What conditions in the world make this the right time for a Humanizing Work movement? There are two key shifts that have happened in our working world that are really unique to our day. These Read More The post Humanizing Work Season 1 Finale: Why Now? appeared first on Agile For All. [...]