Blog: Agile & Business

AC: Open Space on Managers & Agile

October 4, 2020

Agile Carolinas for October 2020 Meeting We want to have the following session. Topic: Managers & Agile Being consistent with Open Space, this is a fairly open topic. Here are some sessions that you might want (and you get to choose): How much should the Managers drive Agile adoption? Are Managers the last (cultural) frontier? […]

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ANN: COVID and Our Courses (October update)

October 4, 2020

Right now… We recently decided to try an in-person course.  More on that below. *** We are doing online (or virtual or remote) courses or workshops — except for one in-person course (see details below). Of course, we do not know when the online courses will end. For now, we are saying that all 2020 […]

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Webinar: Using the Impediment List

September 26, 2020

This is another in our $5 Webinar Series. Topic: Using the Impediment List We are excited about this webinar.  We have been a strong advocate for the Impediment List pattern for years.  We believe good usage of it can make a big difference. Impediment List is a key pattern in Jeff Sutherland’s and James Coplien’s […]

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How to start a Great Team

September 24, 2020

Do we want to have a great Team? I think we definitely want that.  To be fair, though, do we ask ourselves that question? I think not.  So, ask yourself that question, and resolve that you WANT to create a great team. OK, yes, you have to define what a great team is, to some […]

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Webinar: A Real Team + A better Sprint Planning Meeting

September 24, 2020

Above is the title of the webinar for today. Below is the slide deck.  It’s about 30 minutes on each topic, including discussion and questions. Webinar- Real Team + better SPM V2 And here is the video: Enjoy!

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Ideas Behind Agile Planning: It Helps to Have a Plan

September 21, 2020

Revised: 11/21/2020 (Original: 9/21/2020). This idea is a bit controversial, depending on who you talk to. First, let’s agree partly with the opposite idea. It can be painful to have a plan.  It can hurt.  Especially if managers will lock the “delivery date” in stone, as we say, and want to punish us if we […]

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Webinar: On Agile Managers (2 parts)

September 17, 2020

This is another in our Webinar Series. The overall topic is building agile managers. For this session, I propose two sub-topics, to give us some focus within this huge topic. Two Sub-Topics: How do we want the Manager interacting with the Team? So, we are limiting it this time to one manager and one team.  […]

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Webinar: Overview of the Team Level Up Workshop

September 10, 2020

We are giving a free webinar about our Team Level Up workshop. We have given this workshop 3 times recently.   Clients are very happy. The basic idea is to take a new/existing team (or teams) and do two things. (1) Get all the team members and surrounding people on the same page.  Level set.  […]

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Ideas behind Agile Planning: Iterative and Incremental

September 8, 2020

When we start the work (and the plan) we do not know everything. As I have suggested, if we know half of everything we need to know (to have a perfect plan) that, in my experience, would be a better-than-average start. So, we start. And we start with the notion that the plan will never […]

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AC: Starting a Great Team

September 3, 2020

This Agile Carolinas session we will discuss some sub-topics. As before, we will use open space-like rules. Main topic: How to start a great team? Some possible sub-topics (you will get to decide that day): What are the prerequisites? How to gather a great team. What would make a great first project How can the […]

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