Agile Community Events

uestion: how much does it cost you not to have something? Reinertsen has said that Cost of Delay is the most important thing to quantify when producing a product. Great, but how do you start? How do you assign a dollar amount to something you have not built yet? How do we make sure that […]

What is Dojo? The term means ‘place of the Way’ in Japanese. The concept has been traditionally applied in the field of martial arts and meditation, and with the constant changes to modern technology the concept has been increasingly adopted in the field of software development. Coding Dojos are a powerful vehicle to accelerate the […]

This is a Agile support group for exploring different aspects of the Agile Coaching. Intended for Agile Coaches and and Scrum Masters, we'll dig deeper and broaden our shared understanding of how the Agile Manifesto may be applied. All levels of experience are welcome. Topics and activities vary from month to month, with intention to […]

ilient company. Driving the agility and flexibility of an organization requires teams with people from different backgrounds, ways of thinking and experiences. This can be a challenge for all members. What do you do if a team with different mindsets is not comfortable working together? How do you deal with the different mentalities and establish […]

Agile encourages a self organizing and empowered method of working. This includes self servicing which is enabled by information radiators. During our days of colocation, it was easy to put up stickies or graphs on a wall and absorb information as we walked down the hallway. In the current days of distributed agile implementation, it […]

Details A scrum master is a leader, but without the traditional authority power that managers hold. To be successful in this role, you need a wide variety of skills. Some say, you wear many hats. In this session, you will learn about, and try on, four of these hats: coaching, mentoring, teaching and facilitating. We'll […]

Title: Psychological Safety Makes Teams Effective Summary: What was your best team ever? How can you describe your dream team? In 2012, Google embarked on an initiative — code-named Project Aristotle — to study hundreds of company’s teams and figure out why some stumbled while others soared. After observing 180 teams across the company, and […]

How often do you see a large group of people, many with exceedingly high pay checks, spending hours and hours in meetings looking for the “perfect” solution for a complex business problem? How often did these plans survive the reality test? Stop looking for a black cat in a dark room with no cat in […]

ABSTRACT Have you ever come to an organization as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, or Product Owner to find out that you are trapped in n a dysfunctional team? Many strong Agile coaches, Scrum Masters, and Agile leaders have experienced underperforming teams and even organizations. Lack of collaboration, unhealthy competition, and sometimes even open aggression […]

How often do you see a large group of people, many with exceedingly high pay checks, spending hours and hours in meetings looking for a “perfect” solution for a complex business problem? How often did these plans survive the reality tests? It always was bugging me to see how teams, especially leadership teams, spend enormous […]

Many teams and organizations wonder whether they need to do Risk Management for agile projects, and how. The misconception that an agile project does not require planning, leads naturally to the conclusion that an agile project does not require risk management. The fact is that every project needs some planning and has risks. That includes […]

In the agile world, we tend to complain a great deal about leadership. Get a group of agile coaches together and you'll likely hear things like, "If only our leaders weren't so focused on output and metrics," or "If only leadership understood about self-empowered teams," or even "If only leadership would let us do things […]