Simon Powers on Transitioning to Product Teams and Advice for New Managers
Simon Powers on Transitioning to Product Teams and Advice for New Managers Listen to the latest podcast from InfoQ which features AWA Founder, Simon Powers talking to Shane Hastie about helping organisations move from siloed groups to large product teams. During their conversation, which took place at Agile2018, Simon gave advice for new managers and…
Read MoreAgile Coaching & the Business Benefits Webinar
Agile Coaching & the Business Benefits Webinar Join us: 10th December 2018 at 13:00 GMT for a Webinar on Agile Coaching & the Business Benefits. Sign-up available through this link: http://bit.ly/awawebinar Agile Coaching can be a valuable role for teams and organisations moving to agile ways of working but sometimes the benefits aren’t clearly understood…
Read More3 Reasons to do both Agile Team Coach and Facilitator Courses in the same week!
3 Reasons to do both Agile Team Coach and Facilitator Courses in the same week! We have a fantastic opportunity for you in the New Year. For the first time ever, we are running our ICAgile-Certified Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF) and Agile Team Coach (ICP-ACC) courses back-to-back in one week. Join us 14th-18th of…
Read MoreUsing agile principles to develop company culture. Part 4: Working Software over comprehensive documentation
Using agile principles to develop company culture. Part 4: Working Software over comprehensive documentation In this fourth post about applying agile principles at FutureLearn, Tessa Cooper, Director of People and Culture, talks about living your values, developing your people and focussing on feedback over comprehensive documentation. Before you read this you might want to read…
Read MoreFive Practical Tips For Managing an Exhausted Team
Five Practical Tips For Managing an Exhausted Team Anna Obukhova, agile coach, managing partner ScrumTrek A 2017 study commissioned by Travail Suisse showed that 41 % of all Swiss employees feel stressed and emotionally exhausted at work. One year later, Health Promotion Switzerland published the results of a three-year survey conducted in partnership…
Read MoreTransform Your Meeting From Pointless to Productive: Slides & Facilitator Notes
Transform Your Meeting From Pointless to Productive: Slides & Facilitator Notes I was a speaker at the Global Scrum Gathering in London 2018. My talk was “Transform Your Meetings From Pointless to Productive”, I chose to speak on this topic because every team, company or industry I have worked in, everyone has complained about…
Read MoreAn Interview with Agile In Audit co-director; Derek Davidson
An Interview with Agile In Audit co-director; Derek Davidson Recently we had the chance for an interview with Derek Davidson, a PST and creator of the Agile in Audit Scrum Fundamentals course. This is a 2-day course that teaches Scrum for audit teams. Working in a series of Sprints, attendees collaboratively and interactively build an…
Read MoreNew Course Announced! Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF)
New Course Announced! Agile Team Facilitator (ICP-ATF) We’re thrilled to announce a brand-new course is all finished and has just entered our training schedule. AWA founder, Simon Powers and the rest of the AWA team have been hard at work pulling together fantastic content for this new ICAgile Certified course. We’re especially excited for this…
Read MoreGet Better Business Results with Enterprise Agile
Get Better Business Results with Enterprise Agile Often the organisations we work with have high demands, requiring products and services that are better and better yet delivered faster and more cheaply. It’s likely that we find we can do great things at the team level, but once the wider enterprise is considered, progress and output…
Read MoreThe Story of Richard Kasperowski and the Core Protocols
The Story of Richard Kasperowski and the Core Protocols Richard Kasperowski is an author and coach who teaches the Core Protocols as the foundation for developing high-performing teams. To explain what the Core Protocols are, let’s first take a look at their origin. The McCarthy Chapter Our story begins in the 1990s – a decade…
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