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Where Agile Is Quietly Winning
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Is Agile the Problem or is this an Organizational Disease?
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Change That Sticks
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Staying Resilient in a Layoff Era
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Agile Burnout
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Tools Over People
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Rebuilding Communities of Practice
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Does your boss understand what you do?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Talking to The C-Suite
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Policy or Empowerment?
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May 24, 2025 |
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Does Lean help Agile?
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Creating Flow
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Fixing a Broken Culture
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Agile in Mergers and Acquisitions
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Looking ahead to 2025 and celebrating 2024
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Agile in the Age of AI
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Organizational Change
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Aftermath of Layoffs
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Is Transformation a Flawed Concept?
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Simplicity, the true power of Agile.
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Value of Agile Coaches
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Are Companies Backing Away From Agile?
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Responding to Changing Requirements
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Leadership Traits for Building Customer-Centric Teams
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Is it really back-to-basics for Agile?
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Influence and Ways to Improve it
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Strategic Agility
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Advice on Coaching a New Agile Team
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Learning Spike: Abandoning the Agile Brand
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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The Agile Industrial Complex
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Agile Risk Mitigation and Tips for a New Team Coach
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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What about the people!!!
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May 19, 2023 |
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Has Agile Jumped the Shark?
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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ACN Learning Spike: the Cynefin Framework
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Balancing the "how" and "why" in product delivery
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Communities of Practice the Benefits and Challenges
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Laid Off in the Age of AI
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Focus! How do we help people find it?
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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When Coaching is no Longer Coaching
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Agile Transformation Strategies
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Teal Organization and its fit inside Agile. Plus, Agile metrics
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Impediments
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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What would you have done differently?
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Ways to Coach and Foster Innovation
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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The Agile Manager
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May 21, 2022 |
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Too busy to improve!
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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How and what are we learning this year?
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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How can we help Agile teams to thrive?
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Helping Hybrid Workplaces to Prosper
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Where Agile Transformations Go Wrong
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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How do we advocate for change?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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The future of work and convincing leaders to change
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Building technical excellence and do you need a certification?
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Constant pace indefinitely and should contractors move forward if done early?
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Has Agile become too homogeneous and how to coach leads and managers
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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Dealing with project failure and going back to the office
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Fostering Self-Organizing Teams and Agile for Hardware Development
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May 01, 2021 |
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Dealing with disruption and best practices to build trust
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Has Agile Left Programmers Behind? Plus, Flat Retrospectives
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Agile at 20 and what is the difference between facilitating vs. leading a meeting.
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Waves of transformation and Agile at 20
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Agile communities of practice, performance reviews, and mixed questions from our live event
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Permanent work-from-home and Agile, and resources for business and leadership agility
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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From command and control to self-organization, and why use Agile project management.
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Implementing Agile on non-software teams, when teams get too big, and steps to become a product owner
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Agile Testing Strategies and Coaching an Overwhelmed Product Owner
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Dealing with unconscious biases, and shifting the team to an outcome mindset.
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Maneuvering a Black Swan event, and what are good ways to measure Agile maturity.
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May 27, 2020 |
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What does it mean to be good enough, and how should Agile coaches measure their success
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Working remotely when face-to-face is not possible and taking care of yourself
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Team and personal learning, moving from scrum master to Agile coach, and moving to enterprise-level coach
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Moving boldly into the New Year, how to not be an outsider as a scrum master, and effective team communications.
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Building an octopus organization and supporting sustainability
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Why ask permission to be better, the nature of work and frameworks, and assessing Agile maturity
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Nov 23, 2019 |
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A live chat with thought leaders in the Agile test community about Agile and test.
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Is Agile killing or helping innovation, do cycle time metrics add value, building cohesive teams, what success has happened with Agile in K-12 education, and what people are reading
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Oct 26, 2019 |
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Building "Yes, and" culture, how to bring culture change to an organization, and what people are reading
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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What is wrong with mandated Agile, Scrum master value, digital vs. Agile transformations, and late user stories
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Building projects around motivated people, employee engagement, and stop converting story points to time
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Flow and Agile, measuring coaching effectiveness, and the role of the PMO in Agile
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Never enough time to test, stakeholders participation, should leaders understand Agile, and personal agility
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Lack of training opportunities, small steps to shift to an Agile funding model, building trust when teams are not co-located, and what we are reading
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May 07, 2019 |
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Great leaders impact on Agile, calculating business value, required reading on culture change, how to hold teams accountable
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Empower the team to write great code, developing an Agile mindset, nonfunctional requirements and Agile, and addressing misleading terminology
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Calling an Agile Adoption done and firing the coaches, encouraging continuous development, concerns with SAFe, and Agile and team structures,
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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Round table discussion with Agile leaders, is it really just about software, business and developers working together, self organization, and is face-to-face outdated
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Agile improving work life balance, how project managers transition to Agile, and best practices for tactical and strategic goals
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Agile burnout, training programs for managers, good certification programs, measuring scrum master value
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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The overpowering scrum master, techniques to help traditional companies, product owner empowerment, small chunks of work, and long lived teams
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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David Hussman, building physiological safety, sprint planning, useful metrics, and best practices for release planning
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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Influencing the business, knowing if your coaching is going the right direction, facilitating Agile principles and values, and realistic sprints goals
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Engage upper and executive management, first line managers, measuring the Agile coach, and coach helping with budgets
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Are all Agile transformations slow, backlog grooming in Kanban, Agile coach vs scrum master, and ignoring Agile values
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Ways to promote the value of Agile Coaching, and the limits to scaling the Agile adoption to large organizations
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Apr 22, 2018 |
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Affecting culture in complex systems, and Agile adoption steps in classic organizations
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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The risk of setting up a internal coaching group, setting a deadline for the Agile adoption, and how to coach when the manager is aggressive
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Why scale frameworks feel like waterfall, talking to executives, and what is business agility
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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Overcoming negative bias of a failed adoption, working with geographically dispersed teams, under trained Scrum masters, building credibility when you are a non-developer coach
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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How to motivate a team working on a old product, what makes a good agile coach, and must read/watch for Agile practitioners
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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How to handle interrupts, using story points vs. hours, getting a vertical slice of functionally, how to integrate Agile in non-software teams, and when can you call yourself Agile
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Mar 10, 2017 |
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Unlimited power to guide Agile in large organizations, first step to agilize a team, and what is the criteria to call yourself a Agile Coach
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Team evolution, public vs private sector roll out of Agile, adopting Agile with legacy systems, and is Agile a means to an end or something more
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Feb 07, 2017 |