Agile

Agile Transformation: Managers Need to Flourish in These 5 Areas

Five Essential Skills for Managers Transitioning to Scrum
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If you are a manager and your team is adopting Scrum, then you can anticipate some confusion and ambiguity about your role in the transition to Agile methods. It isn't clear how your management background, skills, expertise and routines will fit into this new world of Scrum. With no definition of a manager role in the Scrum Guide, what are you to do? What skills will you need? How will you know if you are successful?  Here's a starter set of five areas in which every "agile" manager will need to be skilled.

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Agile Transformation: Tips for New Scrum Teams Navigating the Journey

Adopting Scrum Requires Much More Than Just Knowing About Scrum
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A Scrum implementation is a difficult endeavor that can fracture relationships, diminish team performance, and impact business outcomes.  Or, it can drive teams to higher levels of performance in delivering increased value.  Here are a few tips for a team that can help your Scrum Implementation be successful.

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Leading Agile Transformation: Three Vital Skills

Skill Needed by Every Agile Transformation Leader
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Introducing Agile methods to a team is frequently approached as a sequence of training events for the team, perhaps a tool purchase, and a period of coaching. Organizational Agile Transformation is a less developed field of practice, and I think much more complex because it has impacts far beyond the Agile Team, touching product managers, executives, financial planning and much more. The inherent risks of such a complex transformation create a need for a few essential leadership skills - I've identified three skills areas that I see as crucial for any Agile Transformation Leader.

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Implementing Scrum - An Outline of a Transition Plan

 

Implementing Scrum - An Outline of a Transition Plan
Bill Hoberecht - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Implementing Scrum practices in an organization can be an daunting endeavor - it involves elements of organizational change management, letting go of some existing structures and methods, learning entirely new techniques, and adopting an entirely new framework of accountability.

 

I've gone through many Scrum newstart implementations. These slides help me remember the items to cover in the initial conversations with an organization's leaders and thought leaders: