Another theme we are going to see throughout our book is the idea of individual and organizational learning. One of the most eye-opening ideas… but looking back one of the most obvious… is that people have to go through steps in the learning proces…
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Action Strategies, Agility, Apprentice, Chris Argyris, Cockburn, Consequences, Constraints, Donald Schon, Double Loop Learning, Face, Guidance, Organizational Change, Organizational Context, Organizational Learning, Pockets, Shu, Sledgehammer, Steps In The Learning Process, Three Elements, Variables
I’ve been sitting here for the past few hours… in my favorite coffee shop… thinking through this past week… contemplating my upcoming week… and trying to decide how to get back into the groove of writing. My intent coming here was to share som…
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Agile 2009, Agility, Alistair, Ceos, Cios, Coffee Shop, Discretionary Funds, Early Mornings, Experience Reports, Great Sessions, Groove, Hierarchies, Hoot, Keynote, King For A Day, Old Friends, Pmo, Resistance, Sustainable Change, Twitter, Vetted
Over the past few months of writing Leading Agile… doing the Cutter Paper… and now preparing to write this book… we’ve talked a lot about different agile adoption and scaling patterns in the enterprise. Specifically here we’ve talked about team …
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Adoption, agile adoption patterns, Agile Project Management, Agility, Break, Clarity, Collaboration, Enterprise, Focus, Investment Decisions, Lot, Pockets, Portfolio Management, Priorities, Product Owners, Project Space, roadmap, Scrum, Space Management, Teamwork
A short while back I invited Mishkin Berteig to come to Waterloo to talk about agility. I was looking for something that would have a broad appeal to developers, testers and so on but would also have depth. Mishkin drew a full house and gave a great presentation on delivering successful agile projects. He covered [...]
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The need for a more enlightened leadership style was drilled home to me at one client’s site. I was continually frustrated when brainstorm sessions and meeting that I planned were complete failures. I had a hard time getting the team to come out of their cubicles let alone participate in retrospectives. At the peak of my frustration the team [...]
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Adkins, agile coaching leadership, Agility, Brainstorm Sessions, Coaches Training Institute, Coaching, continuous integration, Cubicles, Deb Hartman, Enlightened Leadership, Extrovert, Hard Time, Improved Team, Introvert, Leadership, Leadership Retreat, Leadership Style, Lyssa, Myers Briggs Personality, retrospectives, Short Shrift, Team Interaction, Technical Aspects
I recently attended AgileCoachCamp and convened a discussion on whether Agile values, principles and practices would be applicable to Web 2.0 projects. Being relatively new to Web 2.0 from a developer perspective I suspected that the answer would be something like “Duh, of course Declan!” But I was really interested in exploring this intersection and [...]
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Agile, Agility, Brothers In Arms, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, Continuous Release, Declan, Developer Perspective, Flickr, Intelligence Web, Platform Data, Rspec, Silverlight, Single Device, Suitable Platform, Teams Struggle, Technical Obstacles, Test Driven Development, User Experience, Weak Spot, web 2.0, Web Site Software