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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 the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency.

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

Harvard Business

This is true both for “on balance sheet” workers and the gig economy. Millions today are already freely committing billions of hours, across distant locations, to co-creating products and services they care about. Why wouldn’t they do the same for their own future? Rethink your efficiency conversations.