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Agile Training, Revisited

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – attributed to Heraclitus What happens when we come back to Agile training? As part of our commitment to being an Agile organization and supporting the growth of our people, in 2016 we held 2-day training events for our team members. The training was CSM ( Certified ScrumMaster ) specific – but we felt it would be valuable for everyone, not just those people whose role included Scrum Master. We achieved almost 100% – as in, almost everyone in the company attended, and almost all of those took and passed the CSM. More importantly, with senior management and business leaders attending alongside engineers, the training created conversations and shared understanding that helped us make significant strides in our ability to succeed and deliver value using agile mindset and principles. Two years later, a lot has changed. Our business has shifted. One of our product lines has enough teams on

Lessons from the fragile

What's the opposite of fragile? Most people's immediate answer is "robust" or "resilient". But consider… if we subject something that is fragile to stress, shock, randomness or volatility, we can expect that it will be harmed. If we do the same to something that is robust or resilient, we can expect that it will resist harm - but won't be any better off than when we started. But what if something that is subjected to stress, shock, randomness or volatility actually benefited ? That would be the opposite of fragile: antifragile. This is the core theme of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder . What does fragility and antifragility look like? As human beings, we often think of things that have uncertainty or randomness as having a range of possible outcomes that are centered around some "most likely" outcome, as in the diagram below. However in many domains, there is an asymmetr

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