What is Agility?

by Jim Highsmith, 8 August 2012 | The Agile Blogosphere

There is no Agility for Dummies. Agility isn’t a silver bullet. You don’t achieve it in five easy steps. So what is it? For myself, I’ve characterized agility in two statements: Agility is the ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment. Agility is the ability [...]The post What is Agility? appeared first on Jim Highsmith.

If my blog has helped you, I’m asking if you can return the favour?

by Kelly Waters, 7 August 2012
All About Agile

Hi everyone, Lately I've been thinking about how I can do something to put a little back into society.  I've done things before, but it's about time I did something else. So...
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Appetite for Change

Change is hard and many people do not have an appetite for change. Transitioning to Agile involves a lot: new thinking, processes, practices and tools. So managers and Agile coaches...
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Coaching the Agile Executive Team – Fourth in a Series

The Five Flawless Steps to Building a Strong Executive Leadership Team Step 2: Co-author a singularity “Unity is plural and a minimum of two.” ~Dr. R. Buckminister Fuller Shh, ...
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How Detailed Should Tasks Be in a User Story?

by Kelly Waters, 6 August 2012
Agile User Stories

This is a guest blog post by Joe Woods from VersionOne... When I first started using agile project management, my stories didn’t have enough detail. In my office we use Agile to...
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Focus On What To Leave Out

As an avid photographer I’ve learned a lesson that sometimes a well composed photo depends more on what is left out of the photo. More is not always better and can sometimes ruin...
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Coaching the Agile Executive Team – Third in a Series

The Five Flawless Steps to Building a Strong Executive Leadership Team Step 1: Deserve, Demand, and Be Worthy of a Great Team Here is the first flawless step in building any team...
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Self-organization

We have this idea in Agile, that the Team should self-organize.  This is an important idea. And also an important occurrence (eg, the reality precedes the idea). In Agile, self-organization...
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The Surprising Truth About What Really Motivates Us

Dan Pink’s work on what really motivates us – beyond money for essentials like food and shelter – is really interesting, and this is a great video that explains it all in just...
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How To Build an Agile Executive Dashboard

You get a lot of woo-woo hand-waving when you ask a typical large-scale organizational change manager what they would put on the executive dashboard to show that their program is effective. "That's...
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What is a Qualified User Story?

Regardless of the client I work with, the teams seem to initially struggle with understanding how big (or small) a User Story is, relative to Epics, Features, and Tasks.  It doesn’t...
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Coaching the Agile Executive Team – Second in a Series

The Five Flawless Steps To Building A Strong Executive Leadership Team How to Avoid Organizational Self-Sabotoge Has this ever happened to you? You need to solve a business problem...
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Risk Management – How to Stop Risks from Screwing Up Your Projects!

Risk management is the proactive management of things that might screw up your projects, or your business.  The trouble is, at least in my experience, that risks often aren’t...
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Coaching the Agile Executive Team – First in a New Series

The Five Flawless Steps To Building A Strong Executive Leadership Team I am excited to welcome Christopher Avery as a guest blogger on the Agile Blog.  He and I are going to...
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Change Management – 7 Common Elements of Change

 In recent years, I have been responsible for leading substantial change in 2 different organisations.  In both cases, the digital divisions I headed up were struggling to meet expectations....
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Agile at the Speed of Trust – Relationship Trust

Once Self Trust is established, the second wave of trust, Relationship Trust, can be tackled.  The Speed of Trust defines 13 behaviors as being critical to establishing trust in...
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Product Owner Zero Cost Effect

Have you ever had a stakeholder who wanted to change work priorities mid-project, mid-release, or mid-sprint?  Certainly, one of the reasons we choose to use agile practices as a delivery...
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