Agile Coach Types & Things About Them from Horse’s Mouth
I’ve been an Agile Coach/consultant for quite a while now and I had a good exposure to other Agile coaches either with working with them and mostly by following them through social media.
I’ve been an Agile Coach/consultant for quite a while now and I had a good exposure to other Agile coaches either with working with them and mostly by following them through social media.
“While technically, an agile transformation is largely focused on changing the business workflow, it is actually about ensuring a cultural shift within organisations,” begins Tolga Kombak, managing partner at ACM, a company specialised in agile practices.
We have been experiencing a radical change in terms of market dynamics and economic models for the last few decades. In fact, we are shifting from a world where giant companies are kings to a world where clients are kings, in other words, from a production-oriented world to a new service-based world.
If not, that job is doomed to disappear into the Buffer black hole before it can be seen. This is the starting point of the “Sprint Fatigue” concept.
Agile transformation is a “cultural change” process. There will be both managerial and technical repercussions of this transformation. In order to achieve the agility in true sense, it is more important to further improve engineering capabilities in the organization.
Buffer’s management states that, with this transparency, a significant increase has been observed in the number of job applications submitted to the company, and that it has increased its chances of reaching out a greater number of talents who want to be a long term Buffer employee.
ow agile approaches basically reverse the “set the scope clearly, make the budget and time plan accordingly” practice and they use the “set your budget, establish iteration periods, and create value by producing the most valuable functions that can fit in this iteration” philosophy to create incremental value with small iterations.
Scrum is a human-centered framework consisting of two circles and four rectangles. Some people have the vision, others have the ideas, and others have the ability to transform concepts into working products.
Agility is the ability of an organization to adapt to new conditions and change direction. The new service-based economy replacing the production-based economy of the previous century makes companies’ ability to change much more important than before.
Although the concept of agility was intellectually much older, it emerged with its first practices in the 1990s, especially in the software development and information technologies industry.