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Agile or W-agile?
Agile Coaches
Written by Rachel Davies   
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:44
Look around you and you'll find that many organizations claiming to be Agile or "doing Scrum" are actually doing something else. I call it W-agile. They dress up the work in the trappings of XP and Scrum but really work in nested mini-waterfalls focusing on one big delivery at the end of the project. Often, developers are working in isolation from their business stakeholders which misses the original agile vision. For example, this week I ran a class on Planning with User Stories. Questions asked (see pic) by the people on the course hinted that they were working in a...
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How To Be An Agile Leader
All About Agile
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:03
Agile Leadership - How to be an agile leader.Leadership is a mysterious art. Whether you're leading an agile development team or not, some of the important qualities of an inspirational leader are obviously the same.

My latest blog post on the subject is now live on Jurgen Appelo's new site, "Management 3.0". Take a look by clicking on the link below!

How To Be An Agile Leader

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3 Days To Go!
All About Agile
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 21:39
There are now only 3 days to go to take advantage of the special offer on my eBook! Click here to find out more...

Kelly.

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10 Things I Hate About Agile Development!
All About Agile
Monday, 22 February 2010 03:00
10 things I hate about agile development.Agile development. Love it or hate it, there's no doubt that it's here to stay. I've enjoyed a great deal of success thanks to agile software development and agile project management methods, but here are 10 things I hate about Agile!

1. Saying you're doing Agile just cos you're doing daily stand-ups. You're not doing agile. There is so much more to agile practices than this! Yet I'm surprised how often I've heard that story. It really is remarkable.

2. Worrying about the difference between 'Agi[...]
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10 Days To Go!
All About Agile
Wednesday, 17 February 2010 19:34
There are now only 10 days to go to take advantage of the special offer on my eBook! Click here to find out more...

Kelly.

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Agile Business Conference 2010 in London
All About Agile
Monday, 15 February 2010 03:00
Agile Business Conference 2010 in LondonI've recently received an email from the organisers of the Agile Business Conference 2010 in London. For those that aren't on their mailing list, I've copied their message below for you.

They're asking for suggestions for the topics of the various breakout sessions. If you're planning to go, I strongly encourage you to put your ideas forward!

I've been asked if I might like to speak at the conference this year. I don't think I'm going to do that; that's not really my thing! Although I'm flattered and tempted. I might run one of the breakout session[...]
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