Frederic Laloux wrote a book in 2014 after three years of academic research and of companies around the globe. As soon as I started at ARCA and realized what an organization built on Holacracy was trying to be, I wanted[…]
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Category: Agile (General)
The Future, Backwards
I recently attended a local meetup with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) NC group, led by Mary Thorn and Laura Burke. Mary and Laura facilitated an exercise developed by Dave Snowden at Cognitive Edge. It was a fantastic exercise, and something[…]
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Big Magic
At the behest of my perpetually prudent partner in this great journey (my wife), I recently devoured an incredible book on creativity entitled Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. Elizabeth has two TED talks to her name, both of which I included[…]
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Goals and Experiments for my First External Client
My time at ARCA is drawing to a close. It has been an incredible experience for me and for those that I work with. I came here as an agile project manager or scrum master, fresh out of the Army.[…]
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The Essence of Agile is “agility”
I thought I might take a stab at writing about what Agile really is, or in other words: what agile means to me. A quick search of the word “agile” reveals a few definitions: ag·ile ˈajəl/ adjective adjective: agile •[…]
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Wave Rider by Harrison Owen
In preparation for an upcoming Open Space event I will be facilitating for the Raleigh-Durham Agile Leadership Network (ALN), I have been reading books by Harrison Owen. He is the originator of Open Space Technology, and writes extensively on the[…]
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The Heart of Agile
Last night I had the privilege of attending a talk by Alistair Cockburn, one of the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto. The central theme of the talk was around The Heart of Agile. Cockburn developed this model to distill[…]
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Agile Managers
I had the distinct pleasure of attending a local meetup group as part of the Agile RTP group called How Agile Killed Managers presented by Katy Sherman last month. Katy did a wonderful job of giving a thought provoking talk[…]
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Coaching Agile Teams
As a follow on to the previous post this week from the Agile Coaching Institute’s Agile Coaching Bootcamp, I also wanted to share some thoughts on coaching agile teams – the second half of the course. These are the ideas[…]
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The Agile Facilitator
This week I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Agile Coaching Bootcamp in Essex, MA near Boston, hosted by Lyssa Adkins, Katrina Ferguson, and Clive Prout of the Agile Coaching Institute. I had the chance to learn from and[…]
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