Some notes about the “An Appropriate Use of Metrics” article

In the same way as the ‘Twenty Top Fails in Executive Agile Leadership’ article, I propose here some extracts from a great article written by Patrick KuaAn Appropriate Use of Metrics.

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Some notes about the “Twenty Top Fails in Executive Agile Leadership” article

On March 2018, Ian Mitchell published a depth and detailed post about top failures when executives do not assume their leadership responsibilities in the context of an Agile transformation.

For people who would find it TLTR (Too Long To Read), here are some extracts to get the main insights.

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Pourquoi Agile est en train de conquérir le monde – Traduction de “Why Agile Is Eating The World”

This blog post provides a translation of the article “Why Agile Is Eating The World” written by Steve Denning.

Pourquoi Agile est en train de conquérir le monde

En 2011, Marc Andreessen écrit dans The Wall Street Journal son célèbre essai, “Why Software Is Eating the World“, qui a créé le cliché que “chaque entreprise a besoin de devenir une entreprise informatique.” (Une mise à jour importante par Jeetu Patel sur la situation en 2016 est disponible “Software is still eating the world.”)

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Online course ‘Becoming an Entrepreneur’ – part 2

Did you have the opportunity to read my first notes about the MOOC ‘Becoming an Entrepreneur’ on edx.org? If you want some information about a career as an entrepreneur or about entrepreneurship activities, you may learn some practical things.

Here is now the second part, covering ‘Customers’ and ‘Designing your offer’.

Main purpose of the course: Learn how to map your customer’s full use case — from when they discover they have a problem, through creating value, and getting word of mouth referrals from a satisfied customer.

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Online course ‘Becoming an Entrepreneur’ – part 1

Do you plan to start a career as an entrepreneur? Or do you want to know more about entrepreneurship activities?

One of the best platforms for MOOCs, edx.org, featured recently the courseBecoming an Entrepreneur‘. It has been designed by the MIT via its entrepreneurship program LaunchX. Here are some notes I wrote about it.

Main purpose of the course: Learn how to map your customer’s full use case — from when they discover they have a problem, through creating value, and getting word of mouth referrals from a satisfied customer.

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5 questions for an easy Scrum quiz

scrum 5 questions quiz

Do you want to assess your knowledge about Scrum theory? Here are 5 questions I copied when attending to the MOOCManaging an Agile Team‘ on the Coursera platform.

The 5 correct answers are at the end of the post. Feel free to put a comment and tell me your opinion about this (easy) quiz.

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Why I feel natural with Agile principles

I have been working in an Agile environment for some years, and I have always felt at my ease. Why? In a short, because the 12 Agile principles are ‘common sense’ to me, I feel well and easy to understand and apply them.

The 12 Agile principles

Let’s take them one by one.

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MOOC ‘Du manager Agile au designer leader’ – semaine 5 – Devenir un leader

Devenir un leader

Source: Anglican Journal

Ce dernier billet (semaine 5) consacré au MOOCDu manager Agile au designer leader‘ (ou ‘From an Agile manager to a designer leader’, il est traduit en version anglaise)  a pour sujet : “Devenir un leader“.

Pour les précédentes semaines du MOOC, vous pouvez trouver mes notes concernant :

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MOOC Applications of Everyday Leadership – Leading Organizational Change

Leading Organizational Change

Third and last post about the MOOCApplications of Everyday Leadership‘ delivered by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, topic here is: ‘Leading Organizational Change’.

You can also find my notes about the two previous topics: Negotiation and Conflict Management.

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