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Agile is about courage, trust, and discipline. This approach replaces status meetings with time spent working together. The focus of an agile team is people, results, collaboration, and flexibility over processes, contracts, documentation, or plans.

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The Agile Transformation Blueprint: A Step-by-Step Guide for Companies
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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The Agile Transformation Blueprint: A Step-by-Step Guide for Companies

Dive into a comprehensive guide on agile transformation, understanding the role of an agile coach, and the steps to transition your company to agile methodologies within 3-6 months.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Unraveling the Myth that Agile is Always Faster
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Agile vs. Waterfall: Does Agile Really Mean Faster Project Completion?

Explore the nuanced relationship between Agile methodologies and project speed. Does Agile always outpace Waterfall? Uncover the factors that influence speed, cost, and efficiency.

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Don't Be a Putin in Your Organization
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Don't Be a Putin in Your Organization

Hierarchies can help you to organize your company, but they also come with problems. Here, I explain the necessary leadership style for efficient projects.

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Agile without a Backlog
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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What Is a Backlog and Do I Need One?

As an exercise, try to completely eliminate your project's backlog and think about what effects this would have on your team. Could this be a way to improve?

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How to Optimize the Work Process
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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10 Steps to Optimize your Writing Process

How to prepare to be able to write without interruption. First step: Never stop. Insert placeholders when you would have to stop for research or editing.

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 How to Organize Your Ideas
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How to Write a Non-Fiction Book

Reader of non-fiction books have a specific problem, need, or interest, and you are trying to solve it by providing instructions or information.‍

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An Introduction… to StarCraft
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Understanding Management by Playing Real Strategy Games

For an Agile coach, having a team with such background knowledge can help to speed up the acceptance and learning process of self-management.

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Our Scrum Is Special
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Adapt Management to Agile or Agile to Management?

This article discusses the malpractice of changing proven agile principles to fit your existing management processes instead of focusing on core agile values.

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Kanban and StarCraft
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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How do Kanban and Scrum compare with StarCraft?

This article examines the parallels between the challenges for a player of real time strategy games and agile coaches that want to help to transform a company.

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Multidisciplinary Teams in Scrum
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Why Rotating People Between Teams Might be a Good Idea

This article discusses the malpractice of many companies to use Scrum while still living and breathing a compartmentalized company structure.

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The General
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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Why a Clean Organizational Hierarchy helps with Management

When implementing Agile methodology, some things are often overlooked: the organizational structure, the culture of the organization, and the people involved.

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Idle Hands are the Manager’s Workshop
By
Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Why You Should not Worry About Idle Time at Work

Using examples from the real time strategy game StarCraft, this article explains why idling resources might even speed up your production process.

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Evolutionary Improvements
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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The Advantage of Small Improvement Increments

When introducing agile methods, small improvements might lead to better results than a revolution. The advantage is the constant feedback you get at each step.

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Scrum and Jira: A Love-Hate Relationship
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Clemens Lode
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March 11, 2023
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Steps to Bring Your Agile Project Back on Track

Usually, the Scrum process is employed by using little stickers, and moving them around on a physical board. Jira makes that easier, but it comes at a cost.

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To the Frontlines
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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How are Agile Methods comparable to Managing a Frontline?

Kanban accepts a non-optimal situation: teams are not 100 percent dedicated to a project, and project work is done in phases outside the core team.

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Automate Your Definition of Done
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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Reducing Repetitive Work in JIRA

With this Plugin, you can automate your definition of done (DoD) by creating templates and having them added to each new task in JIRA automatically.

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Scouting the Market
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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The Similarities of "Scouting" in Games and Marketing

Knowing how to deal with a "fog of war" in real time strategy games like StarCraft can help understanding and teaching the principles of marketing.

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Team Communication
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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How Soft Skills Translate from Computer Games to Business

Team-building exercises involving computer games can help participants to train soft-skills like dealing with frustration as well as communication skills.

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In Scrum, Ownership Matters
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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From “Command and Control” to “Innovative Agile Management"

This article discusses how “ownership” describes how a knowledge worker needs to be part of the whole process and not just be a specialist in a department.

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Keep Some Energy in Reserve
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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How a 100% Workload Slows You Down

Taking no breaks is a local optimization which might ultimately slow down your project. Instead, try to distribute workload in the team or try XP instead.

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A Closer Look at the Numbers
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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Why Agile is not about Speed

A better indicator how well your project goes along is how much value you produce for your customers throughout the time of your project, not just at the end.

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Sprinting to Delivery
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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Why Sprints and Delivery should be Completely Disconnected

This article discusses how the idea of delivering products at the end of sprints contradicts agilty. Agility is about delivering working software frequently.

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When Growing Gets Tough
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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How to ‍Handle Multiple Teams in Scrum

Applying the principles of Scrum in a larger organization with multiple teams can be challenging. This article discusses a number of improvement ideas.

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Daily Scrum with Jira
By
Clemens Lode
, posted on
March 11, 2023
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7 Ideas of How to Use JIRA Effectively During Dailies

This article gives you a 7 small ideas of how to improve your daily standups. Maybe try NOT using JIRA next time and try using stickers instead?

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