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It's Not Just Culture: When Teams Impede Agile Adoption Cultural norms can hamper successful agile transformation. Many of these habits and customs are started and perpetuated by senior leadership, but that’s not always the only source of resistance. Often, ingrained behaviors and thinking can occur within the team, including business partners, that also can hinder agility. Five of these barriers are explored here, as well as mindset antidotes to help get the team on the road to agile success.
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Coaching Senior Managers: A Conversation with Jan Jaap Cannegieter
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Jan Jaap Cannegieter, principal consultant at Squerist, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about senior management’s new role in agile development, strategies for providing feedback to managers, and why more teams should shift testing right. Continue the conversation with Jan Jaap and Owen (@owen) on the TechWell Hub (http://hub.techwell.com/)!
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Motivating a Millennial Workforce: An Interview with Nikki Henry Nikki Henry, founder and CEO of Ladies Leading Ladies, talks about where to find great millennial employees to hire and how to keep them motivated. Nikki says millennials are very passionate and purpose-focused, and treating them as individuals will help keep them at your company for the long term. She shares tips for attracting, retaining, and working effectively with the millennial workforce.
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The Agile Manifesto Principles: Support Motivated Individuals Brian Hicks, managing consultant at Coveros, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the Agile Manifesto principle of supporting motivated individuals: "Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done." Continue the conversation with Brian and Owen on the TechWell Hub.
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The Agile Manifesto Principles: Promote Technical Excellence Cassandra Comar, senior consultant at Coveros, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the Agile Manifesto principle of promoting technical excellence: "Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility." Continue the conversation with Cassandra and Owen on the TechWell Hub.
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The Agile Manifesto Principles: Welcome Changing Requirements Jonathan Miller Kauffman, senior consultant at Coveros, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the Agile Manifesto principle of welcoming changing requirements: "Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage." Continue the conversation with Jonathan and Owen on the TechWell Hub.
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The Agile Manifesto Principles: Self-Organizing Teams Gene Gotimer, principal consultant at Coveros, chats with TechWell community manager Owen Gotimer about the Agile Manifesto principle of self-organizing teams: "The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams." Continue the conversation with Gene and Owen on the TechWell Hub!
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Accelerated Quality Using Agile One of the huge benefits of agile is improved or increased quality. However, many newly agile teams report their product quality decreasing at the rate at which delivery is increasing. Leanne Howard has some solutions for these teams, including making quality everyone's responsibility and embracing a shift-left mentality. To get accelerated quality in your agile initiatives, you have to truly be agile.
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Countering 5 Barriers to Enterprise Organizational Agility Many now recognize that organizational agility is critical to business success, but historical patterns of resistance still abound. Before you can change work processes, you should first tackle the traditional mindsets that can pose challenges to the transformation. Here are five traditional behaviors that impede agility, as well as some actions you can take to counter them by changing the corporate mindset.
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