Agile coaches and scrum masters are fans of face to face communications. They’re great because we can read nuance, emotion, body language and osmotic communication.
What happens when we can’t do this and end up having a video conference or, worse still, a telephone conference?
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What do you need for a successful enterprise agile transformation? According to some texts, you need commitment from the CxO suite and buy in from the guys doing the work.
But, I’ve never seen that work. To go one step further, the bigger the enterprise, the more likely a transformation is to fail. The reason? In a word, the ABOMM.
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In my work as a coach, I regularly meet organizations that are excited about adopting scrum. In the face of that positive atmosphere, it’s hard to point out that scrum has hidden costs. In the past, I’ve always mentioned two sobering statistics. I’m just about to add a third.
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