Scrum by design exposes dysfunctions, promotes self-organization and challenges status-quo. It’s important for practitioners to show courage to accept that problems exist and that they’ve to do something about it. Courage allows the product owner to experiment break-through ideas that may invite...
Kanban:Kanban, meaning “visual sign” or “card” in Japanese, is a visual framework to implement Agile. It promotes small, continuous changes to your current system. Its principles include:visualize the workflow, limit work in progress, manage and enhance the flow, make policies explicit, and...
The Daily Scrum, when done effectively, is an almost pure exercise in openness, because each person shares his or her tasks, challenges, and progress for the whole team to see. All of these things can help the team to create an atmosphere of mutual support and encouragement. Creating a cul...
The coach with an open mind listens to what is being said and strives to understand the deeper meaning and emotions behind those words. By being open the coach allows for the future possibilities to emerge. Generative listening is listening with a purpose to serve, it has empathy, openness an...
When you use the word ‘agile’, I think people don't question it. I think in a natural language sense, in an English sense, the meaning of the word has relevance and it sounds fine. If you say ‘we're going to work in an agile way’, I think that communicates quickly the idea...