“'Agile' is one of the biggest buzzwords of the last decade. Agile methods often come across as rather more complicated than they really are. This book is an attempt to unravel that complexity. To simplify the concepts. This book breaks the concepts into small bite-sized pieces that are easy to understand and easy to implement and delivers the message in a friendly and conversational style. Allaboutagile.com is one of the most popular blogs about agile on the web. ”
Kelly Waters
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“"Whilst there are lots of ways you can vary the game depending on the teams you have and the learning outcomes you want, the basic flow of the game play is common to all."
Why did we make the game?
https://www.101ways.com/2018/08/16/agile-101-the-game-and-how-it-happened/
How to play the game?
https://www.101ways.com/2018/08/20/agile-101-how-to-play-the-game/”
Emma Hopkinson-Spark
Yes, I want this!Agile adoption is sometimes driven from the top by courageous executives boldly declaring “We’re going agile!”. They see a vision of a better, happier place, where development is better, faster, cheaper, and they want it. That’s understandable, of course. But some don’t realise the implications. When moving to agile methods, it’s not just teams that need to […]
Tell me more >If anyone was thinking agile is old news, think again. As part of this blog, I monitor Google search volumes pretty closely, which gives a good indication of demand. And you know what? “What is agile” is still one of the biggest search terms around, and it’s still growing! In my original post ’10 key […]
Tell me more >One particular chart in the State of Agile survey for 2011 tells a familiar story. Have a look.
Tell me more >Talking about agile transformation specifically, it’s such a huge topic that I’ve often found myself trying to get my head around how to possibly explain it and where to start. In terms of my own experience, having successfully transformed two large media companies in the UK, I have found there are 6 broad areas that […]
Tell me more >In his book “Crossing the Chasm“, Geoffrey Moore describes the difficulty of creating a popular new product due to a conceptual “chasm” between the first people who adopt a new product and those who come later. He describes five types of people in relation to how they adopt new products: Innovators – always actively seeking [...]
Tell me more >Agile is often the subject of an entire IT transformation within an organisation. But what is IT transformation? Transformation means different things for different organisations and what it is depends entirely on each organisation’s own unique situation, and what they are trying to achieve. It’s also something that keeps changing, as the organisation, customers and […]
Tell me more >For those of you that believe in learning through play, the ball point game (invented I believe by Boris Gloger) is one game I can heartily recommend. I recently had the privilege of working independently with one of London’s top media companies and helping them to rejuvenate their agile roots. I ran an all-day workshop […]
Tell me more >As a senior manager, one of the most valuable things you can do for any development team is to create an organizational structure that enables stable teams. Permanent, lasting teams; not teams that assemble for a project and then disband to reform around a new project. Particularly if projects are relatively short, it’s highly valuable […]
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