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Q&A with Len Lagestee on Becoming a Catalyst

The book Becoming a Catalyst by Len Lagestee aims to help Scrum Masters, Agile coaches, and project managers to accelerate the culture change that is needed when an organization is adopting agile. InfoQ interviewed Len about supporting people in adopting agile practices, what it takes to become a catalyst, and how catalysts can start and energize change initiatives.

Ben Linders
on Jul 24, 2014
Author Q&A: Being Agile: Eleven Breakthrough Techniques to Keep You from "Waterfalling Backward"

Leslie Ekas & Scott Will have written a book which provides advice on how to make an agile transformation sustainable. They identify some common mistakes and provide ideas on how to avoid them, with a focus on what is needed to Be Agile instead of just doing agile practices.

Shane Hastie
on Apr 29, 2014
Kanban on Track - Evolutionary Change Management at the Swiss Railways

Swiss Railways (Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, SBB) employed Kanban to transform a department from disappointing performance to predictable efficiency through a series of incremental improvements. The evolutionary nature of Kanban gained traction with early quick wins and resulted in better management and greater responsiveness to change. This is a brief report of their two year journey.

Mike Beyer Sigi Kaltenecker
on Apr 28, 2014
Author Q&A – The Lean Mindset by Tom and Mary Poppendieck

The Lean Mindset is a collection of research results and case studies from companies applying lean in product development and delivery. A lean mindset according to Mary and Tom Poppendieck is about “developing the expertise to ask the right questions, solve the right problems, and do the right thing in the situation at hand”.

Ben Linders
on Feb 18, 2014
Interview with Jan de Baere about the Rise and Fall of an Agile Company

What happens when a director of a consulting company decides to drastically change the culture? At the Agile Tour Brussels conference Jan de Baere presented the why and how of a company that adopted agile, the journey that they went through, and how it came to a sudden end. InfoQ interviewed him about the agile change approach, culture and trust, and the lessons learned from an agile journey.

Ben Linders
on Feb 03, 2014
Retrospectives Applied as “PROspectives"

We can view situations in our work as opportunities from which to learn how to better handle similar situations in future, by looking back and asking “How will I deal with future situations like this to improve my results?” PROspectives help us to reflect more often, independently of acute, unexpected problems and without time pressure, to uncover ideas for future improvements.

Hans-Peter Korn
on Dec 28, 2013
Much Ado About Commitment

Great projects are generally the end result of commitment from three basic sets of actors: individual team members, teams and projects. With agile teams committing based on the needs of the business and their capabilities, and delivering against the commitment they make.

Thomas Cagley Meghan Cagley
on Sep 28, 2013
Interview with Jason Little about Agile Transformation

Agile transformation is about focusing on organization change and understanding the complexities that come with it. An interview with Organizational change coach Jason Little about approaches for organizational change, culture, feedback and learning, and using the lean startup approach.

Ben Linders
on Apr 29, 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
New Book: The Human Side of Agile

Gil Broza has written a book focusing on the people factors that are needed for successful agile adoption and transformation in an organization. He offers advice targeting leaders at all levels.

Shane Hastie
on Oct 08, 2012
The Contradictions of Technical Recruitment

Huw Lloyd identifies key interrelated contradictions of technical recruitment that implicate the desire for team cohesion, effectiveness and development. The normal methods of recruitment are questioned on the basis of numerous psychological insights, leading to compelling reasons to shift the focus towards greater interpersonal collaboration along with some pointers for how to achieve this.

Huw Lloyd
on Aug 27, 2012
The Culture Game - a book by Dan Mezick

The book looks at the foundations of culture, what constitutes organisational culture and discusses ways to encourage and lead cultural transformation. Drawing on his experience with Agile practices the author examines the values that underlie culture, shows how the Agile values engender organisational learning, and how important a learning culture is to success in the modern business environment

Shane Hastie
on Jul 26, 2012

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