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Thank you to one of my favorite new Agile-ists, David Perino for finding this one from our old friend from Forbes magazine, Steve Denning... https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2018/11/04/the-twelve-stages-of-the-agile-transformation-journey/#538633cb3dd4

Thanks to Nikola Cvetanovski for another reminder that being 'too busy' has become, in many places, a status symbol. When I train introductory Agile, I also share the slide shown below, and try to help people consider that it just might be better to make the hard choice of what is MOST important, focus on that, and do it right instead of trying to "serve too many masters"? What are your thoughts?

With apologies to William Shakespeare, here is a great short video from Geoff Watts on when Agile is a good approach, and when a traditional approach makes more sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ic1ZNx65rU&feature=youtu.be

Another guest contribution from Dan Greenberg... Should we be using Fibonacci, #noestimates, t-shirt sizing, or some other method for estimating work? How should we handle unplanned work? Who is responsible for testing? Should we point bugs? ________ is in getting in my way – remove the impediment, Scrum Master. Whose job is it to enforce that a team finish what they commit to? What does “Agile” say to do? Sound like a typical morning? These questions are probably familiar if you are serving in a Scrum Master or Agile Coach type role. Because our primary responsibility is to champion continuous improvement, we naturally find ourselves in situations that feel chaotic and out of control. I say – embrace the chaos. It’s a good thing. The fact that your team is thinking about these types of issues means they care and they are not complacent. The next step is to get them to own it. My role is to remind the team that Agile has no answers for any of the above quest...

"Culture eats strategy" "Once culture changes in the company everything happens fast." - Indra Nooyi - Pepsico CEO At the heart of any good Agile Transformation is cultural transformation. Or as Ken Schwaber said...