It all starts with doing the right thing. Agile has not changed the old computer wisdom of “garbage in, garbage out”. This is why Allan Kelly last book is dedicated to the art of Agile product ownership. As he wrote: “If a Scrum Master performs badly, the team simply fails to perform well. If the Product Owner performs badly, the whole product is in jeopardy”.
Agile development starts with small Scrum teams tackling small problems. After some initial successes the organization gets more ambitious, and tries to get more teams tackling bigger problems. At some point these endeavors run headlong into organizational finance and governance structures from a different era, designed with huge projects in mind, and it usually doesn’t end well.
The 1st Conference is an event aimed at people starting out with Agile and Scrum run by practitioners of the Agile Melbourne community. The format of the 1st Conference is a one day of presentation and one day of workshops presented by Australian and overseas Agile experts.
Marc Andreessen famously said “software is eating the world”. Yet most of our software development project teams and organizations simply are not set up for us to take part in this revolution. Why? Our organizational surroundings are directly responsible for inefficient design and delivery – locally-optimized silos, opaque and ossified power structures, multi-layered middle management, command-and-control executives – the failings are well known.
In this webinar, Anna Obukhova shares 4 practical tips that you can put into practice when working with tired or burnt out Agile and Scrum teams. A must watch for any coach working in a high-pressured team environment.
The market keeps talking about cultural change, that will help us be better at what we do. We have Agile, Scrum, teal organizations, holacracy, sociocracy, NVC and all other similar concepts. But is there anything all of those organizations have in common?
Aginext.io London 2020 is a conference for Agile Practitioners interested in the most advanced Agile practices and the emerging ones. The call for papers is open until the 30th November 2019. The Aginext London conference has about 50 spots for engaging talks and workshops plus opportunities for lightning talks and to facilitate networking sessions. A standard session is 45 minutes including questions and a workshop could be up to 105 minutes, while the shorter talks are 20 minutes.
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