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Steering the ship: integrate risks (a sailing story)

For as much time we spend estimating a project, it is just one likely scenario among many others. Agile teams are not shy of this, overthinking story points estimates and velocity. It doesn’t mean…

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Rekindle the connection between the team and the sponsor

As an agile practitioner, do you avoid the word "reporting"? This concept, in my experience, has gotten a bad rap with mismanaged teams that don't have balanced relationship with their sponsors. The…

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Scrum Master: 5 keys to hit the ground running

Scrum Master is very different in nature than many enterprise roles., This can be very disorienting. As I care for people to start their Agile Journey with confidence, here are on top of my head 5…

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Encouraging team’s freedom : how much is enough ?

When talking with directors about how to enable collective intelligence and co-responsability in their teams, they usually find me too strict regarding their own behavior.

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[Video] Looking for remote Agile tools? Think remote supplies instead

Since the pandemic, I feel that the focus on tools instead of practices has been on overdrive.

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To improve people’s work, stay in the work context

As mentioned in a previous post, I have a general unease about bringing non-work related elements in order to improve a work-related situation.

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Here is the first video of an Agile Fundamentals series that I’ve been packaging for my client L’Occitane en Provence for software development teams. In these videos I’m trying to cover the fundamentals but also fix the most common mistakes you will find in Agile & Scrum basic trainings. First video, addressing the most pivotal shift from past project approach: developing your product feature by feature from the beginning, instead of following a technical logic (detailed design and solving all problem theoretically, then technical foundations, then more elaborated components, then end to end functionalities). There’s more to come, so subscribe!
The negative stake of agile transformations we don't talk about: when it fails, there is a long backlash that will hold back the company's performance. After the human-centred perspective, this second bit is on a cold minded angle, the company performance: why would shareholder care if a transformation attempt doesn’t deliver? How does this affect the company performance, people's fatigue apart? It’s a bit cynical, but I find this point to be more convincing, because in the high of the moment leaders tend to hear more their small circle and have a deaf ear for what’s going on with the teams, somewhere between not having time to listen, wishful thinking, and a trend of arrogance infused by wrongly put methods in the like of “it’s for the greater good” and “some will never get it”. To which I could answer “if they don’t get it, we just suck at explaining”, but this too will meet a deaf ear. So there, the brutal truth: you fail an attempt at transforming your ways of working, you usually gets 2 to 5 years of setback before trying again. In economics, they call it the repugnancy cost. I don’t have exact statistics and research but that’s my personal observations after 15 years in this field. This video is a part of Facts and Fallacies of Transformations, a talk I did at Wild Conference in December 2020. Talking points in order: 👉 Why it Harms your People and your Organisation: https://youtu.be/SjX0jRecAtU 👉 Failing a transformation = 2 to 5 years drawback for the organisation: https://youtu.be/KtwbWrcpmpU 👉 What makes Agile transformations too complex for an end to end approach: beyond predictability: https://youtu.be/PcpkFdau9AA 👉 Fallacies: dedicated transformation team, an army of coaches 👉 Short recap: basics of effective change management/change leadership 👉 Prime directive: reset the expectation, make a stand for greatness from day 1 👉 Effective dynamic: how organic transformation look like 👉Fallacies? Standardisation, synchronisation (kinda) 👉 The fastest way? Slow down, and how to 👉 Fallacies: scale, accelerate, go big 👉 The secret sauce behind every successful transformation you never heard about 👉 The elephant in the room: do you need an enterprise framework? Note on the sound: I know, it's not really good! A lot of trouble went into the video capture on the conference day and this is the best we could salvage. I prefer to release it like that with the best sound improvement I could muster than to wait another time to shoot another version. #AgileTransformation #FactsAndFallaciesOfAgileTransformations #WildcardConference20 --- About me My name is Giom / Guillaume in french spelling. Coming from a tech background, I've been helping clients, organisations or individuals, to embrace agility and thrive in their ways of working for the last decade. What's being Agile? No shame in asking. It's being collectively in a constant state of adaptation, learning and evolution, like second nature. It liberates how people work together, how they perform individually and collectively. It's a blast to watch happening and I dedicated my professional life to this. In my Fly Agile channel, I'm sharing bits and thoughts about agility for those who want to get to the next level in this journey and stay there. As a side topic, I believe many principles can be helpful in life so I also share principles related to personal productivity, aka Flying the Agile Life. If you want more videos from me, the best show of support is simply to subscribe to the channel. Feel free to comment and give me feedback! Social Media 👉 Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtWx_n26mEPVQ9-ox7JEjuw 👉 Website: http://giom.blog 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giomunlimited/
Most Agile transformations drag for years. It exhausts people, it backfires on the organisations. In this first video of my Facts & Fallacies series, I share what exactly is happening for people going through these, the cause of their distress, and why we should stop rolling out transformations like it's a Windows update. This video is a part of Facts and Fallacies of Transformations, a talk I did at Wild Conference in December 2020. As Agile transfos have become a massive trend (and that was pre-pandemic), I'm increasingly frustrated to see how the mainstream approach goes exactly against the actual successes on the field. I'm also quite saddened because it harms the people, it harms the dream of working better together which is usually more pleasant and more fulfilling. To try stop the madness, this talk is designed with a couple of principles in mind I try to bring clear rationale to understand what's wrong with the mainstream "roll it out!" approach, and what to do instead. On the topic of transformations, I hear a lot of rants and opinions but no real explanations and rhetoric. I'm trying to fill that void. We can talk about mindset forever, but I believe that people are smart, and most of the time we just need to be better at explaining (and if they still don't get it, we simply may be wrong). I'm trying to convey triggering questions and images you can bring up at work. If any of this can prevent the worse from happening, or at least spin it in a better way, then it's a win for me The talk is split into bite-sized videos, to be released every couple of days. One idea per video, one talking point, so you can share them more easily with your colleagues when the conversation calls for it, or your boss if possible My opening point: we should face the fact that most people experiencing Agile transformations are going through various levels of hells, from annoyance to mental exhaustion. I'm sharing what people say on the field, their clear distress, as the first and most urgent point that something is really wrong with the mainstream approach of transformations. Talking points in order: 👉 Why it Harms your People and your Organisation: https://youtu.be/SjX0jRecAtU 👉 Failing a transformation = 2 to 5 years drawback for the organisation: https://youtu.be/KtwbWrcpmpU 👉 What makes Agile transformations too complex for an end to end approach: beyond predictability: https://youtu.be/PcpkFdau9AA 👉 Fallacies: dedicated transformation team, an army of coaches 👉 Short recap: basics of effective change management/change leadership 👉 Prime directive: reset the expectation, make a stand for greatness from day 1 👉 Effective dynamic: how organic transformation look like 👉Fallacies? Standardisation, synchronisation (kinda) 👉 The fastest way? Slow down, and how to 👉 Fallacies: scale, accelerate, go big 👉 The secret sauce behind every successful transformation you never heard about 👉 The elephant in the room: do you need an enterprise framework? Note on the sound: I know, it's not really good! A lot of trouble went into the video capture on the conference day and this is the best we could salvage. I prefer to release it like that with the best sound improvement I could muster than to wait another time to shoot another version. #AgileTransformation #FactsAndFallaciesOfAgileTransformations #WildcardConference20 --- About me My name is Giom / Guillaume in french spelling. Coming from a tech background, I've been helping clients, organisations or individuals, to embrace agility and thrive in their ways of working for the last decade. What's being Agile? No shame in asking. It's being collectively in a constant state of adaptation, learning and evolution, like second nature. It liberates how people work together, how they perform individually and collectively. It's a blast to watch happening and I dedicated my professional life to this. In my Fly Agile channel, I'm sharing bits and thoughts about agility for those who want to get to the next level in this journey and stay there. As a side topic, I believe many principles can be helpful in life so I also share principles related to personal productivity, aka Flying the Agile Life. If you want more videos from me, the best show of support is simply to subscribe to the channel. Feel free to comment and give me feedback! Social Media 👉 Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtWx_n26mEPVQ9-ox7JEjuw 👉 Website: http://giom.blog 👉 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giomunlimited/
Why Small Projects Blow Up Pt. 1 | Why They Get Out of Control --- About me My name is Giom / Guillaume in french spelling. Coming from a tech background, I've been helping clients, organisations or individuals, to embrace agility and thrive in their ways of working for the last decade. What's being Agile? No shame in asking. It's being collectively in a constant state of adaptation, learning and evolution, like second nature. It liberates how people work together, how they perform individually and collectively. It's a blast to watch happening and I dedicated my professional life to this. In my Fly Agile channel, I'm sharing bits and thoughts about agility for those who want to get to the next level in this journey and stay there. As a side topic, I believe many principles can be helpful in life so I also share principles related to personal productivity, aka Flying the Agile Life. If you want more videos from me, the best show of support is simply to subscribe to the channel. Feel free to comment and give me feedback! Social Media 🢂 Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtWx_n26mEPVQ9-ox7JEjuw 🢂 Blog: http://giom.blog 🢂 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giomunlimited/
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