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When confronted with the task of scaling agile teams, most people go down a familiar path – scrum of scrums. But did you know that there is another method of scaling, a method that uses a single team and no scrum of scrums?

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Ichak Adizes, in his 1976 paper on Mismanagement Styles, identified four roles that a manager needs to play.  A good manager is able to play all four roles (with some roles better than others). A mismanager is only able to play one of the four roles. Based on this, Adizes arrives at various styles of mismanagement. In this post, I’m going to take a look at these mismanagement styles in the context of managing an agile team.

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Many people new to agile have misconceptions about agile. The same way, many people in the agile community have misconceptions about CMMI. In this post I want to highlight five of these misconceptions.

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I facilitated a discussion on “Agile in the Indian context” at the AgileNCR conference a few weeks ago. The image below is a mindmap of the discussion.

If you look at the mindmap you’ll see that only a few of the challenges are specific to Indian contexts (specifically the bit on service companies). Most are universal across the world.

What challenges did you face when adopting agile? What did you do about them?

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This is a mindmap from Hedwig Baars’ session at AgileNCR titled “How to screw up agile”.

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