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The new Scrum Guide describes the whole Scrum Team as self-managing. But how do you lead these teams? Do they need leaders? And if so, where should we leaders focus on? Peter Koning - author of Agile Leadership Toolkit - gives three practical tips

Buurtzorg advocates small self-managing teams. But what kind of roles does a team need? What can we learn from Buurzorg’s methodology?

In this interview, Andreas Bartel, Kanban Trainer with a degree in cognitive science explains feedback loops from the perspective of agility.

Explore the switch cost effect in more detail, examining what it is, how it affects productivity, and what you can do to minimize its impact.

China has proposed a global action plan to govern artificial intelligence, just days after the United States unveiled its own plan to promote US dominance of the rapidly growing field that’s become a key bargaining chip in trade talks between the economic powerhouses.

You’ve probably heard someone say, “We’ll fix it later.” Maybe you’ve said it yourself. In the rush to launch a feature, meet a deadline, or impress a client, you take a shortcut. The code works – for now. The design passes – for now. But over time, ...

Hertz' new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it's not the only company deploying the shoddy tech.

The Kanban Method defines my approach to incremental, evolutionary change for technology development/operations organizations. It uses a work-in-progress li ...

Calculate the NPV (Net Present Value) of an investment with an unlimited number of cash flows.

I was asked recently for guidelines on "how to use value points in agile projects".  I was glad to get the question, since some people, like the blogger who writes "Agile 101," say stuff like: value points are "not appropriate or particularly necessary in all cases."  Gah!  The Agile 101 author actually goes on to do quite a nice job describing how to use value points, and I recommend you visit the blog, but I would like to explain why I don't think all of this is an optional nicety.

Many so-called Agile projects aren't truly Agile. It may look a lot like an Agile project.

You hear that? That’s the sound of another startup that just failed. And another. And another.

In this guide we will look at the history of the Agile Testing Quadrant, its uses and limitations. We will also discuss attempts to modernize them.

A Roman Dictator’s Resounding Impact By Ryan Burns Being from Cincinnati, Ohio, the story of Cincinnatus has inspired me since I learned it eight years ago. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was a Roman…

🚫 Psychological safety is not rhetoric. ✅ It shows up at the human interface through our behavior. Too often, organizations step up to the metaphorical…

If asked, “What is humanism?” most folks probably wouldn’t know what to say. Which is understandable. It’s hard to define and there’s a lot of misinformation out there.

Agile projects fail when misapplied, often due to poor risk management, scope creep, wrong methodology, lack of support, or not fully embracing Agile principles.

Explores Agile leadership, key approaches, challenges, and paths for managers to enable adaptability, innovation, and business-wide agility.

Scaling Scrum with Scrum-Of-Scrums (SoS) What is Scrum-of-Scrums? Starting with a brief introduction. The Scrum-of-Scrums is a scaled Scrum technique designed to coordinate the work of multiple small teams, typically Scrum teams with five to nine members each, working on the same project, program, or portfolio. This structure facilitates communication between teams to ensure that […]

Disciplined Agile delivers a result based on the solid foundation of other methods. Learn how to apply this agile toolkit for your team!

Today, Scrum has become one of the most widely adopted Agile frameworks. It enables teams and organizations to deliver value iteratively and

Product vision statements are concise, evolving, inspirational descriptions of a product's long-term goals and future state. This guide will explain how to develop your product vision statement and what to look for in a good one.

Playing sports can be filled with emotions. Athletes might feel nervous about try-outs or before a big competition, upset about losing or performing poorly, or excited and happy after a big win or a major accomplishment. To perform well in sport, athletes can learn to manage their emotions and cope with stress. However, some emotion regulation and coping strategies might be more useful than others. So, how can athletes learn to deal with their emotions and cope with stress in sport? In this article, we review what emotions are and how they influence athletes’ thoughts and behaviors in sport, as well as their impact on sport performance. We also review types of coping strategies that athletes can use to deal with stress and emotions in sport, and we explore ways that athletes can learn to develop better coping skills for sport performance.

The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal In this Great Courses video course/audiobook, Professor Freeman teaches you how to approach all phases of a negotiation, from simple day-to-day transactions to life changing matters; from simple conflicts with family members to job negotiations; from buying a car to negotiating multi-million dollar aircraft deals

Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which an individual interacts with others with the aim of achieving authority rather than power.

Find the optimal sprint length for your Agile projects with our practical guide. Make informed decisions and maximize productivity.

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.

Innovation comes from the producer, not the customer. —W. Edwards Deming, Paraphrased from Out of the Crisis [1] Portfolio Backlog Details Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and prioritizing the Portfolio backlog. They actively collaborate with stakeholders, including Business Owners (many of whom are part of LPM), Product and Solution Management, Epic Owners, Enterprise Architects, and others, to discover the epics needed to advance the portfolio’s solutions. Portfolio Epics are large (and typically cross-cutting initiatives) managed through theRead more