Cloud Computing: an open bar of expenses?
A team in your company decides to use the Cloud to host their next project. No problem, the provider tells you that you are going to save money using the power of the Cloud. All is well and a few months later, you get a totally disproportionate invoice compared to …
What is SAFe exactly?
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) was developed in the mid-2000s by Dean Leffingwell to help organizations develop better software products and bring them to market faster using Agile, Lean and Systems Thinking practices on scale of the whole enterprise. The idea is to develop an overall vision of how work …
Kanban: An alternative approach to Business Agility
I’ve been working with Agile approaches for nearly 20 years now, and I only learned about Kanban in 2015, when I joined Pyxis. I was immediately curious about this “new form” of Agility, and as an Agile Coach, I decided to learn more about Kanban to expand my toolbox. After …
Professional Agile Leadership Essentials
Becoming an Agile organization is a profound transformation that requires senior leaders, middle managers, and agile team members to change the way that they organize their work, manage that work, and measure the results of the work. Agile teams cannot do this on their own; they need help from the …
Third edition of Agile Finance
On November 21st was held the third edition of our Agile Finance meeting. Agile Finance seeks to bring together IT professionals working in the financial field to form a community of interest and foster exchanges. More than 60 people were gathered during this event to hear our guest speakers and …
Agile Know-How Magazine – Volume 3, Fall 2018
The Agile Know-how team is pleased to present the third edition of the Agile Know-how Magazine. The theme is self-organization. Take a look, it offers plenty of interesting articles and tools:
Agile Know-How Magazine―Volume 2, Fall 2017
The Agile Know-how team is pleased to present the second edition of the Agile Know-how Magazine. Take a look, it offers plenty of interesting articles and tools:
Do we need a Product Owner with Kanban?
Product Owner is a role prescribed by the Scrum framework. It is called “Product” Owner because in a Scrum context, we usually manage a product that is generally a standalone software. The Product Owner’s responsibilities are to maintain a Product Backlog, to keep a channel of communication with the Stakeholders …
Rebalancing society and Agile organizations
SPECIAL COLLABORATION Phil LeNir is co-founder and managing partner of CoachingOurselves, which is a peer-coaching program developed by Phil LeNir and Henry Mintzberg that enables managers and leaders to learn from and coach each other, and organizations to build capacity for self-development. Phil has authored numerous articles and published a book in Japan …
Agile Finance—A first conference dinner
Agile Finance will hold its first conference dinner on Thursday, November 16th. For this event, which is already sold out, we are pleased to welcome four special speakers. Guillaume Bertin from Morgan Stanley and Christian Dubé from PSP Investments will share their experience of Agility in the financial field. James Lapalme from ÉTS will talk about self-managed teams. Finally, Guillaume …