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Radical Transformation
Transformation is a major buzzword these days. Everyone is talking transformation. We see many organisations bringing in new processes, activities and approaches but failing to obtain the results they seek. For all this effort they are transforming to be the same. Why is this? We believe organisations are shying away from two difficult but critical concepts: structure and leadership. (more…)
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Scaling Scrum without crushing its soul
Recently I attended training on Nexus at Scrum.org’s Boston headquarters. Nexus is based on the core principles and values of Scrum and allows companies to apply Scrum at scale while retaining the bottom-up intelligence of self-organisation. This post outlines my experience with Nexus and why I feel it is an important consideration for organisations scaling agile without compromising its…
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Towards an Agile Operating Model
We are on a journey to try to truly be an agile organisation. In this post, number three in the Business Agility Series, I will describe how we changed our business operating model in order to help develop new habits to step us towards our desired agile new culture.
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Considering an Agile Culture
Considering an Agile Culture
We are on a journey to being an agile organisation. In this post, the second in the Business Agility series, I describe our thinking on the type of culture we wanted to create prior to us leaping into implementing change.
Culture trumps everything and as Simon Sineksaid “people don’t ask what you do, they ask why you do it.” So, starting with a clear idea of how the Assurity of the future feels…
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Running our business using Agile
Running our business using Agile
Agile is designed to manage complex situations where there are a large number of unknowns. It has been extremely successful in helping navigate a constantly changing environment by rapidly delivering small increments of value and using the evidence obtained to determine the next round of decision making. Given the highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, many organisations…
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Scaled Scrum is still Scrum
Scaled Scrum is still Scrum
I spent the last week of April in Karlsruhe, Germany with the wonderful and talented Scrum.org community. During that time, we worked through The Nexus Framework as part of the new Scaled Professional Scrumtraining. It was a come-together of some of the world’s leading agile thinkers, reviewing Scrum.org’s approach to the challenge of “scaling Scrum”. It was a profound experience I am grateful…
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An agile, adaptive business strategy
An agile, adaptive business strategy
Agile has clearly made a significant impact on the software development industry, changing the way millions of people work to a more flexible, engaging and adaptive approach, delivering products that better meet the changing needs of the market. Agile thrives in under complexity and uncertainty– elements intrinsically inherent in business. So can agile be used for implementing a business…
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Social exclusion for bad apples
Social exclusion for bad apples
So far, we have learned
The bad apple effect – a single, toxic team member can create group-wide dysfunction
Emotions are contagious – when someone else experiences an emotion, mirror neurons light up the exact same areas of our brain as if we were experiencing that emotion ourselves.
Social contractsare a nice way of establishing a set of desired group norms, and can provide a “container” for…
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Is strategy dead?
There is a fundamental change in management happening under out feet that is challenging the very need for strategy. Small changes are happening every day and in ten years’ time we won’t recognise management as we have thought of it in the past.
In his the landmark HBR article Moon Shots for Management, Gary Hamel notes that management is undoubtedly one of our greatest inventions, but the…
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Using Scrum for Organisational Change Management
When I first started doing Scrum I was focused on project delivery. As a software professional I…
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Lyssa Adkins is coming to New Zealand
Big news – Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd are finally coming to NZ. When I attended their training in 2010 it completely changed how I approached agile work. Since then I have been trying to get them here and have finally pulled it off! (more…)
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The 2013 Scrum Guide changes: what you need to know During my three weeks recently in the US I…
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How to make a social contract and build better teams
In post one and two in this series, we discovered how emotions and behaviours are contagiousand can…
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How to run a Sprint Review
The most common Scrum meeting that people seem to get wrong is the Sprint Review. I hear people…
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When someone experiences an emotion, mirror neurons light up the exact same areas of our brain, as if we were experiencing that emotion ourselves. Literally, emotions are infectious.
Every wondered why others negative emotions exhaust you? It turns out our brains allow us to experience others emotions as if we were feeling it ourselves.
The secret of building powerful agile teams
You know how when you see someone smile, you smile too? Or when you see someone crying, you feel…
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