New in 2024: Assessments, Practices, Exercises, and Tools to Help You Excel

TL; DR: Tools to Help You Excel in 2024

Having just completed the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book, I will turn my focus to 2024 with new projects that build on the foundation laid by the book. I plan to dedicate the upcoming year to empowering agile practitioners through various new tools, workshops, and community events. The tools to help you excel will enhance your skill sets and equip you to thrive amidst professional challenges.

Join your peers for a journey of interactive learning and community engagement in 2024!

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FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore — Hands-on Agile #45

TL; DR: Hands-on Agile #45: FAST Scaling: An Innovative Way to Scale Agile with James Shore

In this energizing 45th Hands-on Agile session, James Shore shared his experiences with scaling “agile:” first with traditional approaches and, more recently, with FAST scaling. Learn in this deep-dive what works, what doesn’t, and how you can try FAST in your organization.

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📺 Valerio Zanini & Zeina Zeitouni: The Zones of Value Framework — Hands-on Agile #31

TL; DR: The Zones of Value Framework w/ Valerio Zanini & Zeina Zeitouni

During this workshop, Valerio Zanini and Zeina Zeitouni explored the Zones of Value Framework that Agile and Product teams can use to build better products. We recorded this video at the 31st Hands-on Agile meetup of April 20, 2021.

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Using Unhangout to Host a Virtual Barcamp or Open Space — Hands-on Agile #24

TL; DR: Results of a Test of Using Unhangout to Host Virtual Barcamps

Last week, 30-plus attendees of the 24th Hands-on Agile meetup ran a virtual Barcamp experiment w/ MIT’s Unhangout, an open-source platform for organizing attendee-driven virtual open space events.

Read on and learn whether Unhangout is a suitable solution to remote collaboration challenges.

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Quo Vadis, Scrum Master: The Results of Our Virtual Strategy Session

TL; DR: Results of a Virtual Strategy Session for Scrum Masters Regarding Remote Work

Last week, 30-plus participants in the 23rd Hands-on Agile meetup had a virtual strategy session where they explored Liberating Structures’ Critical Uncertainties microstructure. They identified robust and hedging strategies for Scrum Masters and agile coaches regarding the challenges of remote work and distributed agile teams.

Read on to learn more about wildest dreams, overconfident teams, and Scrum Masters to the rescue.

Results of Our Virtual Strategy Session for Scrum Masters with Liberating Structures’ Critical Uncertainties — Hands-on Agile #23
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📅 🖥 June 25, 2020: Exploring Virtual Open Space Events w/ MIT’s Unhangout Application

TL; DR: Exploring Virtual Open Space Technolgy — A Live Virtual Meetup on June 25, 2020

How do we run a virtual open space event or BarCamp with a large number of participants? Principally, we could use break-out rooms for organizing the sessions. The question is, though, how do we ensure that the law-of-two-feet still applies? By making everyone a co-host? Probably not the best idea in some situations.

Let us hence check out an MIT application that claims to provide precisely the solution we are looking for — Unhangout.

📅 🖥 June 25, 2020: Exploring Virtual Open Space Events w/ MIT’s Unhangout Application — Hands-on Agile Meetup #24
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