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We are shifting from closed and hierarchical workplaces with rigid employment relationships to increasingly self-organized, distributed, and collaborative human capital networks that draw knowledge and resources from inside and outside the firm.

When you remove a practice, you can safely do so if you retain the value that practice was providing. As an example, dropping ideal developer days as a measure and not estimating at all may be unwise, but replacing this technique with a relative measure, such as tee-shirt sizing, is smart; it retains the value that estimation provides and brings be

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In the real world, the systems we build are part of complex adaptive systems that encompass developers, users, and customers, as well as their environments and organizational contexts. This reality calls for a more dynamic, almost organic approach to architecture and design, one that allows you to learn as you go and adapt your software to ever-cha

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work. I am a strong believer in business value and profit growing from a sense of love and satisfaction for what we do, from care and passion, not from being streamlined and made hyper- or ultra- anything. I want to see The People’s Scrum, not the VC’s Scrum, or the CEO’s Scrum, or the Consultant’s Scrum. I believe only The People’s Scrum is sustai

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Towards a body of work.

What is it supposed to speak to? It should be, I hope, beyond the scope of scaling one app. It should be, I hope, in constant dialogue of bridging past, present, and future.

I think, at least what I’ve been meditating on for the past 7 months, is that we have to look towards designing an organization that allows the ability ... See more

It is advisable to have a central Ways of Working Center of Enablement (WoW CoE) and coaching. (Note that it’s called a “Center of Enablement,” not a “Center of Excellence.”) The WoW CoE is a central, small, servant leadership function for ways of working. The servant part is that it is there to support colleagues, to help mobilize the organization

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