PART 2

…of a three part blog series about a history of Agile as told from our protagonists view.

PART 1

… of a three part blog series about a history of Agile as told from our protagonists view.

A few years ago I was working at a company who had started a digital incubator as a protected and contained special project, outside of the large corporate. It was peopled with a team of the brightest and best from within the organisation and I was part of the coaching cohort supporting their incubator with skills and facilitation.

There’s nothing I like better than using a physical wall to make a team’s work visible and communal, and seeing it's impact on team communication.

Attending the Melbourne Lean Coffee meet up a couple of weeks ago I picked up a little coaching gem from an attendee that I’m keen to try out, despite it hinging on a sporting metaphor for work, which I’m usually strongly

I’ve worked in digital delivery teams where we were obsessing about “the customer”. We talked about the customer needs, ensuring we were thinking about their experiences and then built features we thought they would love.

Waaay back, in May 2013, I went to a ThoughtWorks live event ‘Thriving in a fragmented future', where CEO of pizza giant Dominos – Don Meij, shared some pearls of wisdom from the Dominos mobile app successes

Something I’ve observed recently amongst this agile/lean/start up/digitally disrupted community that I’m in, is there are a lot of ‘SAFe haters’ dissing on SAFe out there.

My excellent colleague Glenn and I were exchanging some jokey emails earlier in the year about team happiness. We had asked our teams (we both have several agile teams) to collect their own rating of team happiness on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most happy you could be - at their team retrospectives every iteration.