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Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Several reasons: No manager cares about “agile” even if they care about agility. So, selling “agile” into the organization doesn’t create any traction for change. You might not like these ideas.

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. I see many organizations succeed better when the less the manager knows, the better the team works. That's because the managers don't explain: Why this product.

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Fulfilling the Promise of AI Requires Rethinking the Nature of Work Itself

Harvard Business

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. This is true both for “on balance sheet” workers and the gig economy. Everywhere today the news confronts us with deeply held fears of AI and automation.