Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Scrum Master 3.0  — A Facilitative Leader
In a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world, it is quite hard to change the mindset of people. It is hard to instill positive change without a safe environment. Creativity is very essential to create sustainable changes. The Scrum Master uses creativity inside-out from the team to the organizational level. Management 3.0 mindset aids him/her to use practices, tools, and games to introduce changes.
12 Road-Tested Team Building Activities That Work for Real-Life Remote Teams
These exercises are key because understanding each other on a personal level means we can communicate more effectively and have an easier time distributing roles and responsibilities across the team.
What We're Listening To
Agile Psychology and Rise of the Agile Jedi with Quincy Jordan
Today, they’re talking agile psychology and the rise of the agile Jedi. They go beyond the general skills and practices of agile to the key mindset pieces and various ways of thinking. Similar to a Jedi, agilists need to also go on a journey of mastery to improve all aspects of their skills. So tune in to find out more about agile psychology and begin on your path to becoming an agile Jedi!
Agile Outside of IT
Rising Use of Agile Financial Marketing Fits COVID Times Well
Agile development, most commonly associated with software, is making major inroads into financial marketing, with large and midsize financial institutions leading the way. 85% of marketing executives are planning to increase their use of agile methods within the next two years, according to a survey by marketing agency Merkle. Of the 400 marketers polled, just over half (57%) have formal plans to increase adoption of agile methods.
Industry News & Analysis
How Agile Solves The Age-Old Problem Of Integrating Operations And Innovation
As Agile continues to eat the world, with the five largest and fastest-growing firms on the planet steadily increasing their market capitalizations, including three with trillion-dollar values, it’s not surprising that we see a torrent of new books and articles about what’s involved in becoming agile. While some of those books focus narrowly on particular agile methods, by contrast, Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos by Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez, focuses on the broader topic of becoming an agile enterprise.
Five Agile Development Lessons from Will Ferrell
Not many people understand what it really takes to properly implement Agile and they launch into a half-baked version instead. Nowhere is this truer than in automotive, because the Agile Manifesto and Scrum (a method within Agile) do not perfectly translate to things like Functional Safety and Automotive-SPICE. This is where many corporations proceed in ignorance and fail. Using pop-culture examples for training exercises is like the spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down, and who better to lighten things up than Will Ferrell?