The United States Department of Defense Command and Control Research Program has published a short (10 pages) paper on the concept of Agility (by David S. Alberts) and the need for Agility for Complex Endeavors. Lots of fabulous thinking has gone into this paper which is loaded with useful definitions, useful concepts and advice about [...]
Cross-posted from the personal blog of David D. Parker: A Changemaker in the Making I am engaged in a learning process with a charity that has undertaken to implement a new model of volunteer coordination based on OpenAgile, an open source agile method. We recently held an orientation with our new volunteers. In the hopes [...]
A close associate, David Parker, has written a great little article about the use of agile methods in volunteer management.
Cross-posted from my personal blog: A Changemaker in the Making For the past several weeks, I have been helping a small charity solve a dilemma. Because the charity is well-recognized for their good work, they regularly attract volunteers who want to help. Unfortunately, the two overworked staff members are too busy to recruit, train, and [...]
OpenAgile is similar to Scrum in many respects. Both are systems for delivering value to stakeholders. Both are agile methods. Both are frameworks that deliberately avoid giving all the answers. So why would we choose OpenAgile over Scrum?
OpenAgile is similar to Scrum in many respects. Both are systems for delivering value to stakeholders. Both are agile methods. Both are frameworks that deliberately avoid giving all the answers. So why would we choose OpenAgile over Scrum?
This is for people who have received the OpenAgile Readiness Certificate, this course is a key component for advancing your learning to the next level – the level of being able to function effectively as a Team Member in OpenAgile. This training gives you hands-on exposure to the OpenAgile team environment, and practice with all [...]
Great News!
We at Berteig Consulting have been developing OpenAgile with the OpenAgile Champions and we are ready to hold the first ever public OpenAgile Team Member training session. OpenAgile is a new method of using Agile methods for all kinds of work (beyond just software and IT). Now we have our first ever public OpenAgile [...]
This summer, Berteig Consulting delivered an intensive OpenAgile training to Infonium, developers of enterprise application software for the Canadian healthcare industry. Based in Ottawa, Infonium collaborates with Canadian healthcare practitioners to develop innovative software solutions that solve issues that are specific to the healthcare industry.
http://www.infonium.ca/about-infonium/news/96-news-berteig
Berteig Consulting is proud to be helping Infonium achieve their vision of transforming healthcare across Canada.
There are two things every leader needs to know to be successful: first, a leader must clearly articulate what they expect, and second, they need to inspect what they expect on a daily basis. The big challenge though is how do you stay on top of changing priorities? And how do you avoid micro management and making your team crazy? This is why OpenAgile, in my opinion, will be very quickly embraced by management teams around the world. It has all the necessary tools to ensure success.