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Essays from October 2014

3 essays from October 2014

  1. ScanAgile 2015 submissions are open!

    Just a quick note today to let you know that the Call for Sessions for ScanAgile, the Agile Finland annual conference is open for submissions. You can read the whole call for sessions here. You will find the submission form in that page as well. For me the most interesting tracks are: Off-Piste: interesting lessons …

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  2. 5 No Estimates Decision-Making Strategies

    One of the questions that I and other #NoEstimates proponents hear quite often is: How can we make decisions on what projects we should do next, without considering the estimated time it takes to deliver a set of functionality? Although this is a valid question, I know there are many alternatives to the assumptions implicit …

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  3. Lean Change Management: A Truly Agile Change Management approach

    “I’ve been working in this company for a long time, we’ve tried everything. We’ve tried involving the teams, we’ve tried training senior management, but nothing sticks! We say we want to be agile, but…” Many people in organizations that try to adopt agile will have said this at some point. Not every company fails to …

    3 min readteams

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