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Which principles, theories and models do you know that help to explain how Agile works, and why it works? Which one would you add to this list?

A Scrum Master Self-Assessment Kit can help you start buddying or pair-mentoring to continuously develop your craft as a Scrum Master and Agile expert. Here is the new one.

The benefits of coaching as perceived by clients.

A definition of Coaching followed by a definition of success for Coaching.

Assertiveness is a way to find your voice and express yourself also inside a team.

Six principles for a people-centred Agile with quotes that bring them to life.

When introducing the Manifesto to new Agile practitioners, its outdated language often got in the way of conversations around more interesting points. So I’ve freshened up the language taking inspiration from Kent Beck (talk ‘Beyond Agile Programming’ at Startup Lessons Learned Conference, 2010), Dan North (talk ‘Agile Revisited’ at GOTO conference, 2015), Tom Gilb (Value-driven development values and principles, 2010), and Joseph Pelrine (ebook on Agile teams and self-organising systems, 2011).

The three pillars of Agile answer briefly and clearly two of the most important questions people are asking since the beginning of Agile and before: “Why Agile works?” and “What’s the essence of Agile?”

Nowadays challenges span complicated and complex situations that require a leadership style and tools that go beyond traditional leadership.
Here you find reading suggestions to find inspiration as well as practical advice.
#Agile #Lean #Leadership

What is lean-agile coaching? Let’s find out with the two “equations” at its root.

Discover where Waterfall is hiding in this process designed by Gartner to combine Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.
Let’s use this flawed idea as an opportunity to dig deeper into the foundations of lean and agile.

You are trapped in the black and white room of agile’s rainbow. And you cannot be sure you are not, until you find out and conquer your qualia.

How would you describe with just *one* sentence the *main* purpose of the Agile Coach based on your current experience on the ground in the role?

How would you describe with just *one* sentence the *main* purpose of the Scrum Master based on your current experience on the ground in the role?

Discover the two key components behind lean-agile paradigm shift. And the next paradigm shift approaching at the horizon.