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The story of designing the Heart of Agile logo
In the Heart of Agile, we often talk about ‘decisions’ as the unit of inventory and the need to get feedback on them as soon as possible. In 2018, we decided to redesign the Heart of Agile logo. This tweet stream exposes the sequence of decisions we made and how we got feedback along the…
The Journey to Solution Focus – Article published in Cutler Magazine by Géry Derbier & Sole Pinter
Finally released, the article that Géry Derbier & Sole Pinter wrote for the Cuttler Magazine in 2019. They shared their experience and stories on how to apply SF at organizational level, team level and 1-o-1 coaching. Enjoy! The Journey to Solution Focus – Cuttler Magazine 2019
The Heart of Agile begins
Whatever your initiative, it involves changing the world just a little bit. You want your intervention in the world to have a particular effect, or outcome. The world, however, is remarkably resistant to our interventions. The best ideas fail either because of small misunderstandings of how the world will react to our idea, or because…
Heart of Agile talk by Alistair Cockburn, Denmark, October 2018 — Con subtítulos en Español!
Finalmente, la version subtitulada al español de la charla de Alistair Cockburn en Dinamarca. Muchas gracias el equipo de voluntarios que realizan las traducciones!
Heart of Agile plus Teaching, Denmark, Sept 2020
Talk given to the DMLF 25th Anniversay conference (Denmark) 2020-09-24 Heart of Agile and Teaching
Heart of Agile Fireside Chat with Alistair Cockburn and HOA colleagues – Australia Edition 20-03-31
We had our first “fireside” chat on Australia timezone, on Zoom, with around 50 people on line. The video recording of the zoom is available on our public YouTube channel (sorry it started half way of the meeting!): https://youtu.be/PENCgTln2g0 The notes from the meeting are in this PDF – take a look if you like.…
Alistair “Answering questions with stories” at Beauty in Code, 20-03-07
The final session of the Beauty in Code conference hosted by Living IT, in Malmö, Sweden was Alistair just answering questions from the audience with stories… take a look here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMss45AHaaw
HoA Fireside #1, 2020-03-25
We had our first “fireside” chat publicly, on Zoom, with around 50 people from around the world. The video recording of the zoom is available on our public YouTube channel : https://youtu.be/02A3xIqMN1U. The notes from the meeting are in this PDF – take a look if you like. HoA Fireside 2020-03-25 public
Agile Greece Summit 2019 Opening Keynote Alistair Cockburn & Sole Pinter
Agile Greece Summit 2019 – Applying Heart of Agile – Opening Keynote Alistair Cockburn & Sole Pinter
HOA Melbourne Meetup – Collaboration Case study with Red Cross
Collaboration… A great thing when it happens well. It’s wonderful when it gets great outcomes, and even more wonderful when those outcomes change the lives of 1,000s of people in need.
Heart of Agile at LAST Conference Melbourne 2019 with Alistair Cockburn
Alistair Cockburn and Heart of Agile were present at the opening of LAST Conference in Melbourne last October 2019.
Fireside chat talk in Paris, October 2019, Alistair Cockburn
At the Lean Digital Summit in Paris, October 2019, Alistair Cockburn gave a shorter talk, integrating lean and agile, more in the style of a fireside chat. This has a different tone from the others, so you may find it interesting.
Agile is not dead, quite the opposite
Three billion people form the global labor pool; 227 million in Europe, 130 million full-time employees in the US, 48% of the US workers are in knowledge work; there are 4.6 million IT workers in the US alone, over 3 million in India. IT in India accounted for 8% of its GDP already in 2013,…
What happens after Agile crosses the chasm
Agile is spreading and changing at such a rate that Cutter’s Business Technology journal devoted two issues to the topic (see references). In the introduction to the first issue, abridged to post on this site, I examined the idea that we have entered the “post-agile” age (read it here). “Post-agile” means that we are in…
Kokoro extends Shu-Ha-Ri with “Heart”
In March 2015, I was searching for a way to extend Shu-Ha-Ri with a radical simplification… and found “kokoro”. Read the little story here… kokoro extends shu ha ri (PDF)
Shu Ha Ri
Around 2000, I was writing about the 3 levels of listening, and someone introduced me to Shu-Ha-Ri. They have been a mainstay of my writing, teaching, speaking since then. Here is an article explaining Shu Ha Ri, from the early 2000s: Shu Ha Ri (PDF) Then, in 2015, I was looking for the radical simplification of…
World Cafe Night Brief Instructions
We did following: 0. Tables of 4-6 people. Any number of tables. 1. It will get very noisy, so start off showing people how the raised-hands = silence thing works, use a bell + raised hands to get people’s attention when table swapping. Practice before proceeding. 2. Each table picks a topic from the theme…
Post-Agile thoughts
We are now in the “post-Agile” age. “Post”-something means that we are in an in-between period, where one thing has been incorporated into our culture and the next thing has not yet formed to the point of naming. The period of horseless carriages preceded the age of cars; indeed, even “automobile” is an in-between word,…
The Heart of Agile-CrossTalk Magazine
Article from the November/December 2016 edition of CrossTalk Article PDF
Increasing Collaboration by the Minute–CrossTalk Magazine
Article from the January/February 2016 edition of CrossTalk Article PDF