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Coaching the CxO

Agile coaches are not unfamiliar in working with management roles such as project managers and team managers to facilitate changes on team level. But now they need to facilitate change on management level, which completely changes the scope of the agile coach. This article helps agile coaches to understand the context of their target audience and formulate a coaching message matching that context.

Joost Mulders
on Mar 06, 2014
Building Innovative Organizations with Lean Thinking

For a modern IT company, innovation is equally critical to the company, its clients and its staff. Jeff discussed the important ingredients needed to create a culture of innovation in an organization. Drawing on his experiences at Thoughtworks Chengdu he examines the importance of leadership, lean thinking, problem solving mindset and people factors in fostering innovation.

Jeff Xiong
on Dec 03, 2013
Author Q&A and Book Excerpt: Directing the Agile Organisation

Evan Leybourn has written a book titled Governing the Agile Organisation in which he presents ideas about using agile approaches to management and a number of case studies on how the techniques have been applied in a number of disparate organisations.

Shane Hastie
on Nov 29, 2013
Scrum Master: Position or Role?

Scrum common wisdom says a Scrum delivery team needs a dedicated Scrum Master (SM). For new teams, this make sense. But as teams mature, do they still need a dedicated SM? Can an SM have multiple teams? Can the team assume the role within themselves? This article proposes that for mature teams, a dedicated SM is no longer needed.

Brian Lawrence
on Nov 05, 2013
What Managers Can Do To Support Agile Transformation

Agile requires a collaborative culture. That’s where HR comes in. To ensure a smooth and appropriate transition to the Agile approach, organisations need to consider a variety of factors. Servant leadership, the ability to embrace change and a focus on the people, not the process, are some of the components to making the switch. Is your organisation Agile-ready?

Nancy Y. Nee
on Jun 10, 2013
Bridging the Management Gap

As Agile becomes widely accepted within IT organizations, one roadblock to more significant organizational change is becoming clear - resistance from management. Traditional command & control management no longer suffices in a globalized, knowledge-based economy. When will we reach the tipping point where organizations unshackle themselves from the limitations of command & control?

Tiago Garcez
on Apr 01, 2013
Why the Agile Project Manager is the Secret Sauce for Development Projects

The Agile project manager is sometimes referred to as the “secret sauce” for software development projects? Leo Abdala describes a recent development project at a Fortune 50 company where the Agile PM instilled confidence with and produced a value-generating product for the client

Leonardo Abdala
on Dec 18, 2012
Visualizing the Big Picture of your Agile Project

Agile is all about the whole team experience. We plan together, code together, test together, and retrospect together so that everyone in the team is all on the same page. However, once your project grows bigger, teams start to get lost in pile of user stories and it gets harder for everyone to see that same big picture. This article discusses various ideas to visualize this big picture.

Kulawat Wongsaroj
on Dec 05, 2012
Agile Performance Reviews

Why go an entire year before receiving feedback? Nothing else in the Agile world waits a year, why would feedback? Struggling to make feedback objective? Perhaps objectivity is the wrong goal perhaps reviews should be subjective. Ryan Hagan offers his approach to doing performance reviews with an Agile Team.

Ryan Hagan
on Nov 09, 2012