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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

Scrum.org

This paper is geared toward Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and change agents that work with large change initiatives. Small changes can produce big results—but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline, 2006). Misunderstanding of the Scrum Master Role.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

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like choosing for Scrum?—?they These norms range from very basic ones, like attending a Daily Scrum every day, to abstract ones like “work together towards a shared goal instead of working on your own tasks” and “delivery small, working bits of product frequently instead of huge chunks occasionally”. Why Is Change Hard? Pentland, A.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

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Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. How that is supposed to happen is nowhere described in the Scrum Guide.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

Software Sizing, Estimation, and Risk Management: When Performance is Measured Performance Improves , Daniel Galaorath and Michael Evans , Auerbach, 2006. Agile Estimating and Planning , Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2006. Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts. While Scrum is probably most prevalent in IT, Kanban and Lean are significant too. It was replicated at Robert Bosch’s South Bend, Indiana facility in 2006.

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How to Measure Success? Is it Even Possible?

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It looks like small cognitively-diverse (Syed, 2019) cross-skilled cross-functional teams or teams-of-teams using Agile, Lean, Lean/Agile methods, or the Agile Manifesto principles. It looks like small cross-skilled cross-functional teams or teams-of-teams using Agile, Lean, Lean/Agile methods, or the Agile Manifesto principles.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

México, 1 al 3 de Febrero de 2006. Pich, Working Paper, 21/2006, Cambridge University, Judge Business School. Risk Analysis & Estimating Uncertainty … and what this has to do with the price of milk in McLean,” Phil Beenhouwer, The Society of Cost Estimating & Analysis (SCEA), May 17, 2006. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.