Category: Agile in Life
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Risky Business
What could possibly go wrong? You have your visions, plans, roadmaps and a great programme board backed up with lots of exhilarating dialogue. The risks have been ROAMed and everything is under control. In the words of Captain Picard “Make it So”. And so you begin. I go back now to past experiences with risk…
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Citizenship
I have recently read the book by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde: Large Scale Scrum: More with LeSS The book is an excellent source for ideas and stories, however the idea that teams are empowered to rejected group decisions because a team has full autonomy should be examined. For example if two teams are working…
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Beginner’s Mind
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki For a number of reasons, the world of Agile borrows thinking from the world of Martial Arts. An example is Shu-Ha-Ri, the phases of learning called copy, adapt and master. While this is an approach to learning, there…