Agile adoption failure? You’ve got a cultural mismatch. Bob wanted to chat. “We can’t seem to make this work”, he said. “I just don’t think scrum works for a team like ours.” I had provided scrum training and a bit of coaching for his team a few months back to get them going. Their story was pretty common – they had been using kind of an ad hoc, waterfall style process. Now things seemed to be falling apart. I handed Bob a copy of the book “Tribal Leadership” and asked him to read it and see if it gave him any insight into solving his problems. “Is Tribal Leadership an agile book?” “Not exactly, but I think it will help your team be more agile”, I replied. While our first inclination may be to jump in and fix each of these problems, I’ve learned that the problem probably is not about the team or about the process. Tribal Leadership Dave Logan, John King, and Halle Fischer-Wright summarized their study of what made effective leaders in their book Tribal Leadership. You can also listen to author Dave Logan describe these in more detail here:
tribes Agile Alliance :: Home The Agile Manifesto The Agile Manifesto was written in February of 2001, at a summit of seventeen independent-minded practitioners of several programming methodologies. The participants didn't agree about much, but they found consensus around four main values. Supplementing the Manifesto, the Twelve Principles further explicate what it is to be Agile. We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentationCustomer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more. © 2001, the above authorsThis declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice. As of this writing, the Manifesto and Principles are officially available in over 40 languages, including English, and more language translations are under development.
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