Agile Culture and Adoption Survival Guide @Agile New England
Here is the latest version of my talk that I will give at Agile New England – minor updates and tweaks since the Agile Tour Toronto version last month.Read More
Agile Culture and Adoption Survival Guide (Presentation)
I am very excited to share some learnings over the last 6 months on culture and transformational leadership. Here is the presentation I am giving tomorrow at Agile Tour Toronto and in Boston (@Agile New England) next month. Enjoy.
How to Incubate Transformational Leadership
Jon Stahl had an enlightening talk at Agile 2011 where he walked through his process for incubating transformational leadership to achieve an Agile mindset.
Confused about adoption vs. transformation? Check out ways to make progress with Culture Gaps.Read More
How to Make Your Culture Work with Agile – Screencast
Here is a video primer of the Schneider Culture Model and how Agile, Software Craftsmanship and Kanban fit in. It is recorded in HD so you may want to use full screen and 720p resolution to see all the slides.
Read More Agile – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Slides
I was thrilled when I had a chance to turn my Agile Culture Series and conclusions into a session to run at XPToronto (my local Agile user group). Slides are below.Read More
Agile – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This is your chance to hear about the Ugly harsh realities, the Bad news and the Good opportunities for Agile. In many ways this concludes the past months series on Agile Culture.
Stop reading now if you want to take the blue pill and ignore the harsh realities of the Agile industry.
Agile Culture, Adoption, & Transformation Reading Guide
This is a reading guide to the series that explores corporate culture and how that has a direct impact (sometimes very negative) on efforts towards Agile adoption and transformation. It is a must-read for every Agile Change Agent. The role of Kanban is quite distinct and is discussed throughout.
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Ways to Make Progress with Culture Gaps
In an earlier post, I talked about how Agile Fits Better in Some Company Cultures than Others.
In this post, we’ll review some common strategies for handling cultural mismatches.Read More
A Tour of Agile Adoption and Agile Transformation Models
In light of Agile adoption failures and awareness of cultural challenges, the purpose of this post is to review current models that are applied to Agile Adoption and Agile Transformation with Agile at organizations. Worthy background reading is Mike Cottmeyer’s post on Untangling Adoption and Transformation.Read More
Agile Fits Better in Some Company Cultures than Others
At XPDays Benelux last November, Pascal Van Cauwenberghe told me that his main focus is to stop companies from doing Agile. I didn’t get it then. I think I finally understand.
(Note: Post used to be named “Problems with Agile? Check your Culture!”)Read More
Software Craftsmanship promotes Competence Culture
The rise of anemic Scrum was noted to dismay among the Agile community and in particular by “Uncle Bob” Martin who coined the fifth Agile manifesto value of Craftsmanship over Crap(Execution). This gave rise to the much needed community of Software Craftsmanship.Read More
Kanban aligns with Control Culture
In my last post, I looked at how Agile Culture is about Collaboration and Cultivation.Read More
