Assessments

What Happened to Agile? And Where Do We Go From Here

Let’s be honest. These are “interesting” times for being an agilist. Whether you’re in the “Agile is Dead” camp or not, it is clear that the movement is not well. Agile took over the software development world in a storm. As that happened, the demand for agile outstripped the supply. Agile became practice-focused. A commodity. …

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Using the Spotify Squad “Health” Check beyond the Squad — Pandemic version

The search for the right Health Check model Back in 2015, I wrote about a Spotify Squad-level tool I started using in Executive/Management workshops as well as all-hands QuickStarts/QuickBoosts. Also, the option to run this assessment using a Kahoot survey is especially relevant these days when we’re all virtual. This might also be good timing …

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Are we there yet? Assessing Agile Marketing Maturity

In a recent Agile Marketing Meetup in Boston we tried to figure out how mature are the Agile Marketing teams/organizations out there. Last week I helped facilitate a third quarterly Agile planning event (also known as SAFe PI Planning or Big Room Planning) for a group of agile marketers I’ve been working with for the …

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