3 Common Agile Myths and Why They’re Wrong
Many teams hesitate to adopt Agile due to misconceptions about its structure, planning, and applications. This article debunks three of the biggest Agile myths, explaining why Agile is structured, adaptable, and valuable across industries.
WiA Open
The Women in Agile initiative aims to empower and expand the presence of women in the Agile community. While efforts are made to increase recruitment of women in STEM fields, current female professionals often lack engagement and support. By creating a sustainable community of female leaders and mentors, the initiative seeks to enhance knowledge sharing and benefit the whole community. This year’s event encourages attendees to self-organize and take action through workshops, networking, and a New Voices program, addressing the involvement gap and promoting inclusion and diversity in the future.
Leadership Skills: The Key to Unlocking Enterprise Potential
Leadership Skills: The Key to Unlocking Enterprise Potential Become the leader your enterprise needs. Leadership skills can be developed with practice and dedication. Lead your team to success by creating a clear vision for the future and how they fit in that future, and unlock your potential to become an effective leader.
Plant seeds of thought
Join Linda M Cook as she shares her journey to understanding the value of seeing people as individuals and leveraging their unique skills and gifts. In this episode of the Uncommon Leadership interview series, Linda shares her experience as a manager and how she empowered her team to achieve their goals. Learn about Linda’s philosophy of Agile leadership and how she helps reduce unnecessary suffering in the workplace. Don’t miss this insightful conversation with Linda! Click now to watch the video on the host’s website.
The Coin Game
Join me on November 2, where I’ll be the guest presenter for The Coin Game, a modified version of the Agile Penny Game, which highlights value delivery and assessing value. This game delivers lessons about Lean concepts such as batch size, value delivery, making improvements, changing team members, self-management, and more.
2022 Women in Agile Open Retreat
The 4th annual unconference of Women In Agile Open is designed by women, for women. Past attendees have said “I left feeling pampered” and “I almost don’t want to go home!”
Iteration Planning, Options for Success
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become one of the more popular agile frameworks for large enterprises. Over the past 10+ years, Scaled Agile has adapted the framework to include several helpful development practices like DevOps, Lean-Agile Leadership, and Business Agility.
18th Annual Retrospective Facilitators Gathering
Date: May 6th - 10th, 2019Location: Berkshires in Western Massachusetts Our goals for the week are to: Grow our retrospective facilitation skills by sharing our experience and knowledge. Share observations of how retrospectives have helped teams and organizations...
Agile 2019
The Conference is considered the premier Agile event of the year, and provides a week-long opportunity to engage in wide-open interaction, collaboration and sharing of ideas with peers and colleagues within the global Agile community.