I've written about The Agile Manifesto here (values) and here (principles), with this post I will dig even more in how Agile came to be. The first notable thing to mention is that Agile didn't start with... well Agile. Many of the frameworks that sit under the Agile umbrella are more than two decades old,... Continue Reading →
What Is Agile Anyway? The Agile Manifesto (2). Principles
After diving into the Agile Manifesto and discussing the Agile Values here, this post is entirely dedicated to the accompanying principles. Originally, the 12 principles of Agile software development were split in three categories: customer, managers, teams (see below a copy of the original manifesto), each category having four principles. I. Slanted towards Customers: The... Continue Reading →
What Is Agile Anyway? The Agile Manifesto (1). Values
"We must be Agile!" From C-level to any level employee, Agile is becoming more and more popular. But what do they mean by being Agile? This is what I got from asking the people around me: we have to move fast I want to see the work before it's completed I need the team to... Continue Reading →
The Manager Role is Different in an Agile Environment
I've been looking into how the traditional hierarchical, "command and control" management came to be and also at what motivates individuals and high-performance teams with the purpose to discuss the role of the manager in an Agile environment. Most of the Agile frameworks don't tackle this topic, which creates quite a few issues when implementation time... Continue Reading →
Intrinsic Motivation is the Drive for Extraordinary Results
Try to google "what motivates employees", and you can spend the rest of your days figuring this mystery out, browsing through thousands of results. A short but comprehensive summary is found on Science Direct. You get the overview and information on what you read on next, if you want to go deeper into the subject. In... Continue Reading →
You Don’t Need to Be Technical to Be a Great Agile Coach
Last year in November I attended the LeSS training with Bas Vodde in Singapore. After three days of immersion in LeSS and Lean I asked Bas: "Would you hire a Scrum Master who is not a software developer?" Bas: "No." The answer was expected. At the same time, earlier in the course, we discussed engineering... Continue Reading →