An Agile Tale – Destined to Fly
An Agile Tale – Destined to Fly 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 realizes that one day it will flutter over the same ground it currently crawls along, and that many will…
Read MoreWhat is an Agile Coach?
What is an Agile Coach? This post follows on from What is Agile? If you didn’t read that, then please it read it now. Otherwise, this isn’t going to indake a whole lot of sense. OK, let’s begin. What is an Agile Coach? The word ‘coach’, like the old stage coaches, can be taken to…
Read MoreCoaching skills for agile coaches
Coaching Skills for Agile Coaches I’ve noticed that the word ‘coaching’ is often used to describe anything from teaching to professional coaching, and everything in between. So how much of what we do as agile coaches or ScrumMasters is really coaching – and how much of it should be? The Agile Coaching Institute’s coaching competency…
Read MoreThe Cynefin Review Pt 1
Cynefin – The Sense Making Framework – Part 1 This is a new series on Cynefin and the Sense Making Framework that shares what I learnt on the 4-day course with David Snowden and Tony Quinlan. There are many other articles and official works which will give you a more formal view on the framework and I…
Read More5 internal tools for large scale organisational change
Abundance Living in abundance is a choice. Abundance is a state of mind. When you live in abundance or have the feeling of living in an abundant world, something changes in your output such that the very decisions you make create harmony and optimism in those around you. This is very much likely to bring…
Read MoreCourse review – Scaling Agile and Organisational Change
Earlier on this year, I ran a 2 day course on Scaling Agile and Organisational Change. As far as I know, this is the only course to cover the major scaling frameworks and give some guidance as to when, what and most importantly why to use each one. We started the day with a slightly…
Read MoreAgile adoption strategies for large corporates
Agile Adoption Strategies for Large Corporates Everyone is different. Organisations are also different. The personality of an organisation is its culture. When we look to improve an organisation, it is the culture that needs to change. Applying different out of the box tools doesn’t work, because every culture is slightly different. We call this starting…
Read MoreWhy Scale Agile? – Part 1
Why Scale Agile? Part one – Visibility Visibility of progress has the net result of better financial outcomes that are derived by three types of behaviour. These are risk reduction, ability to direct progress and to increase trust between those paying for the work and those doing the work. Risk reduction The contract game…
Read MoreWhat is Scaling Agile?
This article covers what I think about when I think of scaling Agile, what it really means, why is it so hard and how to make it easier. Who am I? My name is Simon Powers, I am the founder of Adventures with Agile1, the global community of practice for scaling agile and organisational…
Read MoreAWA event – John Coleman – 25th November 2014 – Practical session
Yesterday, we held the 2nd Adventures with Agile event and it was another huge success. John Coleman flew over from Ireland to give the presentation and a huge thanks is in order to him for this, and for presenting and running the workshop. I was slightly disappointed in the number of people who said they…
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