Agile Leadership

The Lean Startup – Not Just For Startups!

I recently read the book 'The Lean Startup' by Eric Ries.  I was really impressed. First of all, it's not just for startups!  Eric defines a startup as anyone working on new products or services in an environment of extreme uncertainty.  In today's business world, where we're living with a volatile economy, the rapid pace of change, consumerisation of IT, and a highly competitive market, I reckon...
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Clever

I've recently finished reading this book, Clever, by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, who work alongside Gary Hamel at the London Business School. Gary Hamel I'm sure you know has written...
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What will 2012 bring?

I'm not a big fan of predictions, but I was asked to make some comments about what I think 2012 will bring for the agile community. This is what I think... I think 2012 will see...
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Software Delivery As A Competitive Advantage – The Need for Change

There has never been a more important time to be outstanding at software delivery.  An organisation's capability in software development is now a major differentiator.  Possibly the...
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Agile IT Transformation

Talking about agile transformation specifically, it's such a huge topic that I've often found myself trying to get my head around how to possibly explain it and where to start.  In...
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Agile Transformation and the Chasm

In his book “Crossing the Chasm“, Geoffrey Moore describes the difficulty of creating a popular new product due to a conceptual “chasm” between the first people who adopt a...
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7 Reasons why Continuous Delivery needs to be a BUSINESS initiative

by Kelly Waters, 10 November 2011
Agile Leadership

One of the key practices of agile and lean teams is the idea of Continuous Delivery.  If not continuous, then at least very frequent! ThoughtWorks has an area of their web site...
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Adaptive Leadership Video

by Jim Highsmith, 8 November 2011
Agile Leadership

Jim Highsmith - a fellow colleague at ThoughtWorks and one of the original co-authors of the agile manifesto - has written a really interesting paper on the idea of Adaptive Leadership,...
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What is Scrum good for?

by Mishkin Berteig, 25 October 2011
Agile Leadership, Scrum

I have worked with a lot of people, teams and organizations over the last 8 years helping them to adopt Scrum and I have seen some interesting patterns about where Scrum works well...
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Dependencies Break Agile

I’ve been running around lately telling people that the presence of dependencies break Agile. Just for the record, I want to explain what I mean when I talk about dependencies. Agile...
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Employers Making An Impact

First of all, I was really excited that IPC Media won 'Most Engaged Management Team' at the UK's agile awards this week. I can certainly vouch for that - the people I worked so closely...
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The Value of Stable Teams

As a senior manager, one of the most valuable things you can do for any development team is to create an organizational structure that enables stable teams.  Permanent, lasting teams;...
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A Manager’s Guide to Building a Relationship with the Team

by Esther Derby, 6 September 2011
Agile Leadership

“A talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how...
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