Agile wisdoms: Introduction – the quest for clarity
Historically, we have observed three waves of agile: agile teams, agile scaling and agile business. With each wave, opinion diverges more, and the amount of uncertainty increases due to the…
Is agile killing diversity?
Agile ways of working drive the business performance that diversity programs always promised. But agile practices do not promote diversity. Do diversity programs face obsolescence or will they be able to adapt?
Combine purpose with agile to improve happiness
Agile ways of working drive happiness and purpose creating a win-win situation for businesses and staff.
Start your agile business transformation with WHY
Agile has moved out of software development in most organizations. As it enters mainstream and new domains people want to understand what agile can do for them. Often, their HR…
Using a bold vision to guide the agile transformation of insurances
Agile transformations benefit from a bold and specific vision for the agile business that creates clarity and urgency and outlines the key mind shifts required. Using the example of the insurance industry this article discusses and illustrates the components that make up a bold agile vision.
The optimal team size: Two pizzas? Dunbar? Or more?
Common wisdom holds that agile is for small teams and that it doesn't scale. Yet, the demand is for entire businesses to become agile. How do we put this together?…
Project manager: friend or foe of agile?
Agile business transformations require the collaboration of agilists and project managers to drive the biggest change an organization has ever undertaken. This article reviews and tries to resolve the different viewpoints of agilists and project managers that could reduce their ability to effectively collaborate on increasing business agility for the greater benefit of their organization.
Agile!? Can we call that something else?
Imagine you are driving a car. You enter a steep corner too fast. The car drifts off to the side. The airbags trigger. You are fine. What do you do?…