Agile OWL

Doing Less To Achieve More With Agile
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Agile helps you identify the bare essentials better. This ensures you do less but achieve more. This story of NPR a media giant shows just that
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Autonomy And Agility
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Companies take away the key ingredients which got them success, in an attempt to hold on it. As the story from Fitbit shows, it does not work that way. Autonomy and being Agile go hand in hand
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Law and Agile
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Can Law be Agile? We carry stories from two legal teams from Lonely Planet and Financial Times this edition and how they evolved new Agile ways of working.
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Agile And Entrepreneurship
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Every company worries that the energy and risk taking of the start-up phase will reduce in the scaling up phase. Agile and its core principle of iteration gives companies an opportunity to remain in an entrepreneurial mode, even as they...
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Being Agile And In Perpetual Beta
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Staying in perpetual beta has a certain swag to it. It denotes your ability to listen and iterate. Read the stories of Kayne West and Gmail in perpetual beta
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Experiment Your Way To Agile And Agility
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For change to stick it requires persistence. This persistence must stem from experiments and learning from these experiments. Persistence and experimentation working in cyclical tandem is the key to change. One without the other isn’t worth much.
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Agile And Servant Leadership
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Servant leaders serve by leading and lead by serving. Can middle managers be servant leaders? Here is a story from LEGO and the real experiences of their middle managers
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Agile and 21st Century Leadership
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How did leaders at Lego leverage Agile to combine the best of the old and new leadership skills. One that set clear goals and ensured work got done without being directive or prescriptive.
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Hiring And Agile
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Agile can create value if we can identify our high value tasks and focus on it. See how this works in hiring
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Remote Working And Agile
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Agile teams have to be face-to-face to work well. The Agile Manifesto lays this down as a working principle. This principle though has for long divided  proponents and followers of agile methodologies. One camp argues that being face-to-face is not...
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