THE “R” PART OF HR Frequently, HR topics find their way into Agile Communities and almost always turn into heated discussions. Recently, and again, one of such topics was raised in the global community of Coaches and Trainers, thus sharing it here. Truth be told, HR norms and policies are a direct reflection of … Read more
Frequently, HR topics find their way into Agile Communities and almost always become heated discussions. Recently, and again, one of such topics was raised in the global community of Coaches and Trainers. Truth be told, HR norms and policies are a direct reflection of organizational culture (also, corollary to structure) and very much define human … Read more
On 23-24th of February, there was the first ever 2017 – Business Agility Conference, held in NYC. The event could be best described as “…2 days of authentic short stories and facilitated deep dives on business agility; focus on organizational design, market disruption and product innovation, agile outside IT and next-generation leadership…” (quoted from https://businessagility2017.com/) The uniqueness of this event was due its demographics, and in particular: due … Read more
Not all types of product development are the same. The most three distinct types are: Internal Product development, where Users/Customers are internal Product Owner is internal, playing the role of a conduit between Users and Technology Dev/Technology/IT is internal, mainly dealing with Product Owner (and her team) Outsourced Product (“Project”) development, where Users/Customers are internal … Read more
This week’s Large Scale Scrum in NYC: CLP Training and Meet-up. December 19-21. This week, there was a mind-blowing 3-day experience of system thinking and organizational design modeling with Craig Larman. Having been at wide array of Craig’s training and public presentations in the past, I was still overwhelmed with volumen of education that this … Read more
December 19-21. This week, there was a mind-blowing 3-day experience of system thinking and organizational design modeling with Craig Larman. Having been at wide array of Craig’s training and public presentations in the past, I was still overwhelmed with volume of education that this class offered. One of the main distinctions ( imo – improvements) of … Read more
Key Steps To Success Agile Flyer Reminder: Few seats remaining in Certified Large Scale Scrum NYC | (December 19-21) This week’s Certified Agile Leaderhip Workshop in Orlando This was an amazing two and a half-day working session, with participation of organizational leaders and enterprise coaches coming together from different parts of the world: Sweden, Costa Rica … Read more
This was an amazing two and a half-day working session, with participation of organizational leaders and enterprise coaches coming together from different parts of the world: Sweden, Costa Rica and USA. One of the co-creators of Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) course – Pete Behrens took the mixed group, consisting of managers and coaches through a very engaging training … Read more
Scrum Team. It is a cross-functional group of developers that are able to deliver complete business functionality (“from concept to cash”) to customers in a short time-frame. The easiest way to make sure that a team is cross-functional is to compose it of developers that are initially multi-skilled and possess both, primary and secondary skills. … Read more
This was a blasting event, with one of the co-signers of Agile Manifesto: Mike Beedle, being our honorable guest. Mike’s presentation (outlined below) was followed by comprehensive Q&A. Some folks were wise enough to have Mike hand-sign Agile Manifesto copy 🙂 Summary of Mike’s talk: Enterprise Scrum (ES) goes much further than Technology alone. ES … Read more
