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8 Critical Red Flags Your Kanban Adoption Is Incomplete

Scrum.org

In the context of agile teams and Kanban adoption, I'm reminded of 'The Princess Bride,' a classic film where Vizzini frequently exclaims 'Inconceivable!' I do not think it means what you think it means.' We've previously addressed misconceptions about Agile and Scrum. When someone enthusiastically claims, 'We're doing Kanban!'

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Nanny McPhee Returns

Growing Agile

This blog post is about looking at some lessons Nanny McPhee taught and how to apply them to your context. Then I watched the 2nd movie, Nanny McPhee Returns, and the lessons in that film were much easier to adapt, so let’s have a look at what they are. If you treat your team members as kids, they will behave like kids.

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What Is Swarming in Agile and How Can It Boost Productivity?

Wrike

For Agile teams, flexibility is the name of the game. And this flexibility works in their favor — the 2018 Standish Group Chaos Study results showed that Agile projects are statistically twice as likely to succeed than Waterfall projects. What is swarming in Agile? Swarming is also closely linked to Scrum.

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My Journey as a Scrum Master

Scrum.org

Although at that moment, I hardly understood what the role was about. However, when I continuously need to write the same answer, it’s easier to turn it into a blog post. Salespeople, because what they promised to the customers proved to be not feasible. Although hardly anyone, including myself, understood what Scrum was about.

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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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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. It’s about creating business outcomes.

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Guiding teams in multi-skill development

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The seventh blog, in a blog series about the upcoming book: Creating Agile Organizations - A Systemic Approach , by Cesario Ramos & Ilia Pavlichenko. Figure 1 shows what a typical team board could look like at the end of the iteration if everyone is equipped with an individual performance strategy.