How does a large organisation like Microsoft become good at practicing Agile at scale, instead of worrying about scaling Agile? How do 1400 people at Microsoft people plan and coordinate their work? How have they encouraged autonomy, without compromising alignment? How are dependencies handled in this complex environment? How do they keep on top of their technical debt? How do they balance customer requests and internal business drivers? Here are 16 key lessons from Microsoft.
If we can define one thing an Agile leader must do, what would that be? What are top 5 things effective Agile leaders should do? How to you become an effective Agile leader, and help others become one? Here’s an interesting take on Agile leadership from an individual, team and organisational perspective.
Just as Japanese culture embodies Lean principles, Maori and Polynesian cultures elevate the importance of the team (or family, collective or other group of people) over the importance of the individual. How does a country with more sheep than people produce a team recognised as the world’s greatest (a record of 51 wins and 3 losses in last 4 years), and what does this have to do with Scrum and Agile? Read on.
How do you become a good servant leader? One way to become a leader is to start acting like one. Leaders should be able to trust their team members. How do you create and enhance that level of trust, and encourage people to take on more responsibility? Here’s what you can try when you want something done next time.
How do you identify, analyse, and manage your stakeholders? To begin with, how do you identify your stakeholders? How do you identify your context setters, players and subjects? How do your collaborate differently with context setters, as compared to players or subjects? How do you draw a map that can help you devise an effective stockholder management plan? Read on.
Code reviews can be stressful. What causes this stress? What part language (as in language we speak, not the programming language) play in inducing or reducing stress? How should we provide feedback, and how should we formulate our questions during the code review? How to discuss architecture and other bigger issues? Here are 8 tips to help you make your code reviews stress free.
Are you just an individual who’s working on a team, or are you a good team member? How do you move from an individual to a team member? How do you grow yourself into an outstandingTeam Member or help others become one? What qualities do you feel makes a person a great member of a Team? Here are 7 tips you can use to become an outstanding team member.
Increasingly we find ourselves working with distributed Agile teams. How do we run effective Retrospective in a distributed environment? Here are 3 free online tools that can be used to facilitate Retrospectives in distributed Scrum teams.
AGILE
16 Keys to Agile at Scale
How does a large organisation like Microsoft become good at practicing Agile at scale, instead of worrying about scaling Agile? How do 1400 people at Microsoft people plan and coordinate their work? How have they encouraged autonomy, without compromising alignment? How are dependencies handled in this complex environment? How do they keep on top of their technical debt? How do they balance customer requests and internal business drivers? Here are 16 key lessons from Microsoft.
forbes.com
What Do Agile Leaders Really Do?
If we can define one thing an Agile leader must do, what would that be? What are top 5 things effective Agile leaders should do? How to you become an effective Agile leader, and help others become one? Here’s an interesting take on Agile leadership from an individual, team and organisational perspective.
blog.crisp.se
Lessons from the Greatest Scrum Team
Just as Japanese culture embodies Lean principles, Maori and Polynesian cultures elevate the importance of the team (or family, collective or other group of people) over the importance of the individual. How does a country with more sheep than people produce a team recognised as the world’s greatest (a record of 51 wins and 3 losses in last 4 years), and what does this have to do with Scrum and Agile? Read on.
rallydev.com/blog
Create Vacuum to become Better Servant Leader
How do you become a good servant leader? One way to become a leader is to start acting like one. Leaders should be able to trust their team members. How do you create and enhance that level of trust, and encourage people to take on more responsibility? Here’s what you can try when you want something done next time.
mountaingoatsoftware.com
PRODUCT OWNER
6 Tips for Effective Stakeholder Management
How do you identify, analyse, and manage your stakeholders? To begin with, how do you identify your stakeholders? How do you identify your context setters, players and subjects? How do your collaborate differently with context setters, as compared to players or subjects? How do you draw a map that can help you devise an effective stockholder management plan? Read on.
romanpichler.com
DEVELOPER
Taking Stress Out of Code Reviews
Code reviews can be stressful. What causes this stress? What part language (as in language we speak, not the programming language) play in inducing or reducing stress? How should we provide feedback, and how should we formulate our questions during the code review? How to discuss architecture and other bigger issues? Here are 8 tips to help you make your code reviews stress free.
dzone.com
AGILE
7 Ways to Become a Better Team Member
Are you just an individual who’s working on a team, or are you a good team member? How do you move from an individual to a team member? How do you grow yourself into an outstanding Team Member or help others become one? What qualities do you feel makes a person a great member of a Team? Here are 7 tips you can use to become an outstanding team member.
blog.scrum.org
3 Free Tools for Distributed Team Retrospectives
Increasingly we find ourselves working with distributed Agile teams. How do we run effective Retrospective in a distributed environment? Here are 3 free online tools that can be used to facilitate Retrospectives in distributed Scrum teams.
scrumexpert.com
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