Agile Thinking

Being Agile Mindset Book List — 10 books to help you develop your agile mindset and understand how to take an agile approach. 10 books to read to help you being agile in business. There are lots of great agile books, but these are the 10 that came to mind when I was asked what books have helped me to develop my agile mindset, particularly in a non-technical sense. They are in no…

Linguistically, idea precedes semantic precedes articulation, so even the most elemental words are abstractions (reduced forms of thought). Logically, we begin with axioms relating those most fundamental abstractions. Is it possible then to expose new thoughts without reference to some common base? Yes. The risk for miscommunication creates beneficial potential…

Why creative thinking is the basis of agile teamwork and high performance — Typewriters have a competitive advantage over computers. Seriously. Setting: 1990s You make electronic typewriters- word processers, and you own a big slice of the market. Business looks good. Finance chief came to see you, and you just signed off on 10 new personal computers for accounting. Spreadsheets, “latest thing” he said.

Converging to the right solution (the second diamond) — TLDR Diverging allows new ideas, converging narrows your ideas down to those that are most likely to solve people’s problems. The validated prototype is divided into user stories. Then, those stories are listed in order of priority. Finally, the project is framed, to start the delivery phase. In the previous article…

Converging to the right problem (the first diamond) — TLDR Take your time recruiting participants and scheduling. A sprint is not the only way to execute a Design Thinking Process. A business opportunity starts with people’s problems. These should be kept top of mind throughout the process. Design Thinking is often required for innovation during Innovation and Planning (1) phase…

Agile thinking is a mentality. It’s not a fixed process, nor a set of rigid rules to follow, but an iterative approach to project management that aims to reduce headaches while increasing project success and customer satisfaction. Because the agile process requires constant evaluation of plans, results, and deliverables, teams…

Your organization is changing and undergoing transformation. You’ve rolled out Agile (Scrum and Kanban), you’ve scaled it (SAFe, LeSS, etc.) and even applied DevOps practices (you’re using Kubernetes right? Isn’t that DevOps?) Yet still, millions later, the purported value has yet to materialize. So how come, after all this work…

Living scrum values increases the motivation of employees-even if cooperation within companies does not take place in scrum teams. There are many articles on how processes and methods improve a team’s operations and contribute to ensuring quality. These are very important aspects, but there is one thing that is more important to a company than anything else, and that is employee motivation. How many times have you read in…