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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

What is the business case for Agile teams? We think we do well to base our beliefs about Agile more on evidence. This post is our attempt to bring an evidence-based perspective to the business case of Agile teams. Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams.

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4 Awesome Teamwork Examples for Agile Teams

nTask

Professionals do not come with a manual so how should Agile teams work in collaboration? What may seem like a completely different ballgame, if studied closely, just may be able to teach Agile teams a thing or two. Example #1: Dee Dee Trotter – 2008 Summer Olympics. Let the games begin! The Best Teamwork Examples.

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Leveraging Evidence-Based Management and Achieving Organizational Change through Larman’s Laws

Scrum.org

Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior are profound insights derived from years of studying how large organizations react and adapt to change, particularly when transitioning to Agile practices. By first understanding and addressing the cultural aspects, leaders can lay a solid foundation for introducing and sustaining meaningful changes.

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How I ended up becoming a (Professional) Scrum trainer

Gunther Verheyen

In April 2010, at an event of the Agile Consortium Belgium in Brussels, I asked Jeff Sutherland about this new organization founded by his former companion. I painfully discovered that I had been blinded by management ambitions (and promises) in 2007-2008. It wasn’t too sustainable (I guess). Go full throttle.

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The Agile Cannon

Herding Cats

The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements.

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Can the Words “Innovation” and “Project Management” Be Used In The Same Sentence?

The IIL Blog

According to management guru Peter Drucker, there are only two sources for growth: marketing and innovation [Drucker, 2008]. Continuous innovation is needed, regardless of current economic conditions, to provide a firm with a sustainable competitive advantage and to differentiate themselves from their competitors. REFERENCES.

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A Digital Service Canvas for Government and Enterprise

Scrum.org

It’s an agile activity which looks like it ought to be a no-brainer for teams…something they’d want to buy into, and of clear value to all. Everyone else seems to have more important matters to attend to than another piece of agile “fluff”. The original is Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas , proposed in 2008. Why, though?