The Agile Principles are like guiding lights that illuminate the path to better outcomes. They go beyond specific tasks or actions and focus on broader values and ideals. For instance, principles could be as simple as “customer focus or “people over process”
Having guiding principles in place empowers teams to make better decisions, prioritise effectively, and work towards delivering valuable outcomes in an agile way.
At the end of last year our good friend David Lowe published his second book called The Innovation Revelation, a story about how to satisfy customer needs. In this interview David tells us all about his new book including what inspired him to write The Innovation Revelation, his writing process and his favourite characters, …
Customers can be a fickle bunch, but there is no better indicator of a successful business than measuring the number of repeat customers. The challenge all businesses must face is that the speed that customers demand products is increasing, whilst at the same time products and services are more complex. Organisations must deliver more complexity …
Why Getting Work Out Faster Requires Upskilling of Middle Management Read More »
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 the first couple of posts: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Individuals and interactions over processes …
In this third post about applying agile principles at FutureLearn, Tessa Cooper, Director of People and Culture, looks at Customer Collaboration. Including how you should identify, understand and collaborate with your ‘customers’.Before you read this you might want to read the first couple of posts: The second line of the agile manifesto principles is “Customer collaboration over …
In this second post about applying agile principles at FutureLearn (see the first) Tessa Cooper, Director of People and Culture at FutureLearn, talks about why hiding behind email and tools makes companies less efficient and how putting time into interactions with individuals can make a company more effective. “Individuals and interactions, over processes and …
Tessa Cooper, the Director of People and Culture at FutureLearn* discusses why she believes agile working principles can be used to develop company culture. This is her introduction to a series of posts. Many of the individual principles and practices that are promoted by agile development have been around for years, even decades. “Agile …
Using Agile Principles to Develop Company Culture Part 1: Introduction Read More »
We’re excited to welcome Mina back to AWA to share her latest talk about Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS). BOS proposes a systematic approach on how to innovate and how to find something new, and can be used for product development, processes and other areas within our lives! About this talk: ”Let’s innovate!” ”Wait, but why?! …
Meetup: Blue Ocean Strategy with Mina Boström Nakicenovic Read More »
If you have worked in a scrum team, you’ll know that often you need to slow down first to get the results you need. In this article, we share a story about a team we worked with and the 7 warning signs which helped us to identify why they were consistently building the wrong thing, …
7 Warning Signs You’re Building the Wrong Thing and Why You Need to Slow Down Read More »
This is a real-life story. It’s a story about addressing the concerns of senior managers who are wary of their delivery teams making their own independent decisions. It’s a common tale that many delivery teams face, and one where, as servant-leaders, scrum master and agile coaches need to support their teams in navigating. This story …
At what stage do you think a caterpillar knows it will one day be something else? Even if it knows it is destined to transform, do you think it realises that one day it will flutter over the same ground it currently crawls along? And that many will consider it the most beautiful of …
