Catégorie : Coaching
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L’Agilité au cœur de la donnée, ça fonctionne!
Ma récente expérience au sein d’un group BI (Business Intelligence) m’a confronté à une problématique intéressante. Comment arriver à arrimer l’agilité au sein d’un groupe dont la donnée est l’incrément de logiciel? Mon approche dans cet écosystème consiste à discuter de valeur. La valeur n’est pas dans une action du logiciel, mais l’information que livre…
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L’Agilité, bonheur et efficience
Lors d’un récent mandat dans une grande institution bancaire au Canada, on m’a confié le mandat de guider des équipes vers l’Agilité. Cette opportunité était une belle occasion de démontrer une fois de plus la puissance de l’Agilité dans un contexte imparfait. Pourquoi imparfait? Ces nouvelles équipes se situent dans un environnement au milieu de…
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Joy of Agile – On the plane!
Attached are excerpts of the internal news bulletin of an organization we started coaching in 2008. They had the courage to do things differently and are now reaping the benefits. Being in the avionics industry, the challenges in adopting an Agile approach were immense. But the highly capable team members and management at CMC Electronics…
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10 ways to be happy on an Agile project
In the last few days, I’ve been getting messages with joyful and happy themes attached to them. I was then prompted to ask myself why some people are downright miserable working within an Agile framework, while many others would not have it any other way. Thinking of various individuals from different teams and industries, I tried…
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Can’t wait to go home and hug my resource!
It’s been a tough yet fulfilling week. Now that it’s over, I finally get to go home and give a huge hug to my 11 year old resource! You might have guessed, but I’m talking about daughter who I love more than anything! But since she’s simply a resource, I can easily replace her with…
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Agile Coaching : Baby Steps or Bad Precedence?
How do we go about to instill an Agile mindset and help teams deliver quality solutions? The two main strategies are the “Big Bang” and pilot project approach. I’ve never had the opportunity to go ahead with a Big Bang, so the alternative has been to find a cool project, get a team together, Scrum…
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Agile Coaching – Maybe all you can do is send a Hallmark card
As agile coaches helping organizations transition to a different way of doing things, are we doing a disservice to our clients by accepting a mandate that we know deep down will most certainly fail? Are we failing to recognize the fact that any attempt for a particular client to adopt an agile approach to software…