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Agile lessons from a toy?

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Have your cake and eat it too?

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Being an Agilist (Scrum Master or Coach) as a vocation is challenging and phenomonally personally rewarding.  Fortunately, it's also financially rewarding! Here's what Indeed says are the top paying jobs in the US in 2019.  NOTE:  The actual number for Agile Coach Salary, in my experience, is TOO LOW.  :-) If you can have both, why not??

You keep using that word...

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Just bought this laptop sticker, thank you to Agile Memes!    https://twitter.com/agile_memes  

Things that require zero talent...

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A classic...

Agilists are Minimalists

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Thank you Joshua! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6553338155314094080

Metrics Perpetuate Distrust

Guest post from Dan Greenberg “We need to define success.” Have you heard that one? It happens all the time at bureaucratic corporate organizations who love creating measuring sticks to help them figure out whether everything is okay or not. Before beginning anything, corporate junkies always insist we define what a successful outcome will look like. I take issue with this. First off, life is far more complex than a black-and-white this worked or it didn’t outcome. I propose something else entirely: Start doing some project At regular intervals, get everyone involved with the project (working on it, has some interest in it being successful, cares about it, etc.) into a room together and ask them all “is this project going well?” or “could anything be improved?” (This group of people includes all customers by the way.) For those who think it’s not going well or that it could be improved, ask them what they think is going wrong or what they think could be impr...

The wisdom of Kermit

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Thanks Jesse Fewell!