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Strategic Yet Agile: Leading with Innovation

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My leadership journey across various sectors, including for-profit entities, non-profits, startup consulting, and workforce readiness initiatives, highlights the importance of innovation. In today’s business climate, leaders encounter a challenge: how to drive innovation while maintaining a forward-thinking vision.

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Agile Beyond IT: Lean Thinking

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By Alan Zucker Agile is a mindset described by a set of values and principles. Lean is industry-agnostic and offers insight into agility. Companies innovate and develop new products. But customers validate those innovations by “voting with their wallets.” They learn from their customers and continually innovate.

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The Agile Journey: From Origins to Agile 2.0

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Since 2001, Agile has undergone a significant transformation. Initially envisioned as a way to decentralize and democratize work processes, its journey has been anything but straightforward. I've seen, firsthand, how organisations have struggled to fully embrace Agile's core principles. The emergence of Agile 2.0

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Ghosts of Agile Past: Story Points

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Agile frameworks are frequently misunderstood, and one area that exemplifies this is the use of story points. Initially intended as a tool for simplifying estimation, story points have become a source of confusion and dysfunction within teams. Remember, it's not just about embracing agility but mastering it with Naked Agility.

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Flucht aus der Feature Factory — von Output zu Innovation

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Schade, dass diese Entwicklung agile Prinzipien untergräbt und den langfristigen Erfolg und die Innovation gefährdet. Dieser Ansatz erstickt Agilität und Innovation und fördert eine Denkweise, die sich auf die Ausführung von vordefinierten Plänen konzentriert, anstatt sich an Veränderungen anzupassen.

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5 kinds of Agile bandits. Planning Bandits

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Unveiling the Agile Burndown Trap: A Fresh Perspective on Sprint Planning Agile teams often rely on burndown charts to monitor progress throughout a sprint. Initially, this approach seems logical, a straightforward way to track how tasks diminish over time. The reality is that product development is inherently unpredictable.

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Navigating the Agile Job Crisis

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TL; DR: How to Deal with the Agile Job Crisis While the current Agile job crisis is apparent, there is also hope for practitioners willing to refine their skills, share knowledge, and network with peers. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 42,000-plus subscribers. ?

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