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Rethinking Retrospectives: Finding the Humanity in Continuous Improvement
February 19, 2025 – Mitch Goldstein, Agile Transformation Consultant “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” – 12th Agile Principle. This principle, meant to be the cornerstone of team evolution, often gets lost in the shuffle. How many times has your team’s retrospective…
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How REAL Retrospectives Get Your Team Improving
January 30, 2025 – Mitch Goldstein, Agile Transformation Consultant The twelfth principle of the Agile Manifesto calls on us to occasionally stop what we are doing and take a look back and reflect on what we have done in order to improve. Most agile teams do conduct a team retrospective, but are they really doing…
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The Agile Rising Podcast: Partnering for Success with Delivery Managers
Agile Rising Podcast: Explore the importance of partnering with delivery managers for alignment, strategic risk mitigation, and closing the gap between delivery and IT on this episode of the Agile Rising podcast. Agile Rising’s host Kristine O’Connor talks with Tim Schwamb about intentional relationship building and supporting delivery managers in the Release Train Engineer role.…
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The Agile Rising Podcast: Why Words Matter
Agile Rising Podcast: Words matter more than you think! Discover the ways your communication style can impact your leadership effectiveness in this insightful discussion with Agile Rising’s Kristine O’Connor and Michelle Warner. Michelle shares her tips for mastering storytelling and engaging your audience. Listen now: Want to learn more? Connect with Agile Rising’s Kristine O’Connor and…
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Top 5 Reasons SAFe Enhances the Developer Experience
Marshall Guillory, CTO, Agile Rising. July 18, 2024 I discovered some interesting perspectives in the Atlassian State of Developer Experience Report for 2024. As a recovering software developer I try to stay connected to my coding roots through my professional life journey from developer, product and solution designer and architect, manager, leader, mentor, consultant, and…
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What are Emergent Knowledge Groups?
Friday, June 14, 2024 – Marshall Guillory You may not know it, but you may regularly work in emergent knowledge groups! Many social gatherings can become an impromptu emergent knowledge group. Have you ever had friends over for a gathering and got caught up in a fascinating conversation where the group learned new information about…
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On-Demand Webinar: Agility at Scale
Agility at Scale – Strategies to address hybrid portfolios, increase transparency in your enterprise featuring Agile Rising’s Joe Vergara, Mark Des Bien of Apptio, an IBM company and Jim Fowler, Scaled Agile. What do you mean the organization’s entire portfolio of work is not fully Agile? This can’t be right, can it…? Well, it is;…
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Agile Rising Support for NASA’s Digital Transformation
Discover how Agile Rising has been pivotal in NASA’s Digital Transformation since 2020. Our expertise in agile coaching, change management, and lean-agile practices has enhanced NASA’s mission success, cybersecurity, software development, and more. Learn about our contributions to key initiatives like Artemis and the International Space Station, driving business agility and better outcomes.
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Unlocking the Inner Coach in an RTE
by Tim Schwamb, Sr. Agile Transformation Consultant, RTE Have you been a Release Train Engineer (RTE) for a little while now and wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into? Feel like you were thrust into the role without the guidance of how to succeed? Like this is one hard, thankless job as just an administrative cog…
