Coaching

Challenges with Agile Training: Examples, Reasons, Consequences

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Virtual networks of professional agile coaches and trainers is good place to pick up some most thoughtful and provocative agile discussions.  The most reputable networks that I know of, and happen to belong to, are the communities of: Certified Enterprise Coaches and Certified Scrum Trainers (both, from Scrum Alliance), and Candidate Large Scale Scrum Trainers … Read more

2017 Business Agility Conference – NYC

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On 23-24th of February, there was the first ever 2017 – Business Agility Conference, held in NYC.  The event could be best described as “…2 days of authentic short stories and facilitated deep dives on business agility; focus on organizational design, market disruption and product innovation, agile outside IT and next-generation leadership…” (quoted from https://businessagility2017.com/) The uniqueness of this event was due its demographics, and in particular: due … Read more

11/30-12/2 – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Class in Orlando

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This was an amazing two and a half-day working session, with participation of organizational leaders and enterprise coaches coming together from different parts of the world: Sweden, Costa Rica and USA. One of the co-creators of Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) course – Pete Behrens took the mixed group, consisting of managers and coaches through a very engaging training … Read more

Agile Flyer – 11-24-2016

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  Key Steps To Success Agile Flyer Happy Thanksgiving!!!  This week’s “Give Thanks For Scrum 2016” in Boston On Tuesday November 22, Agile Boston celebrated its 8th Anniversary, by organizing Annual Give Thanks For Scrum event. The main theme of the event was: Scrum – A Foundational Element of Major Agile Scaling Frameworks. During the … Read more

LeSS Talks: Enterprise Scrum, by Mike Beetle (Agile Manifesto Co-Signer)

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This was a blasting event, with one of the co-signers of Agile Manifesto: Mike Beedle, being our honorable guest. Mike’s presentation (outlined below) was followed by comprehensive Q&A.  Some folks were wise enough to have Mike hand-sign Agile Manifesto copy 🙂 Summary of Mike’s talk: Enterprise Scrum (ES) goes much further than Technology alone.  ES … Read more

August 30-31st: The 1st Large Scale Scrum Conference in Amsterdam

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Tweet The first ever Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Conference took place on August 30th -31st of 2016.  Budgeted to accommodate around 150 people, it was oversubscribed (around 180). The event took place in the beautiful city of Amsterdam, in the cathedral style audience hall Rode Hoed. What you will find summarized below, are the topics … Read more

July 28|NYC: Jeff Sutherland at Credit Suisse

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On Thursday, July 28th of 2016, there was a Americas Architecture Forum at Credit Suisse in NYC, with participation of Jeff Sutherland – the co-creator of Agile Manifesto and co-founder of Scrum and Co-author of The Scrum Guide. Below, are some additional artifacts that are available to everyone: Copy of “Shu-Ha-Ri of Scrum@Scale” presentation deck … Read more

July 7-8: Certified Scrum Product Owner Course with ScrumInc

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On July 7th and 8th, in New York, there was Certified Scrum Product Owner Course delivered by two co-trainers:  Avi Schenier, representing Jeff Sutherland’s company ScrumInc  and Robin Dymon, CST from Innovel. The class (size of about two scrum teams) was engaged in heated discussions, practical exercises and games.   I had the honor of attending and participating in the course and was … Read more