Personal Agility - Recent Posts

New Edition of The Illustrated Guide to Scrum

Peter Stevens — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:09:42 +0000

Imagine, a complete visual description of Scrum that makes it easy to share and understand! That's the illustrated Guide to Scrum. Take a look at the sample (in the attachment) or go to Leanpub to download the complete book. (It's free to Leanpub members, with a starting price of $7.99 and recommended price of $19 for those who aren't).

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BTW - I am wondering whether I have got the right title. Currently it's, "The Illustrated Guide to Scrum," but maybe Visual Scrum? Or perhaps, Scrum in Pictures?

What do you think?

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the book!

Peter

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New Edition of The Illustrated Guide to Scrum

Peter Stevens — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:09:22 +0000

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BTW - I am wondering whether I have got the right title. Currently it's, "The Illustrated Guide to Scrum," but maybe Visual Scrum? Or perhaps, Scrum in Pictures?

What do you think?

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the book!

Peter

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New Book: The Illustrated Guide to Scrum

Peter Stevens — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:44:46 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I have started a new book: "The Illustrated Guide to Scrum: Scrum explained through infographics"

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This book strives to answer two questions with clear and easy to understand infographics: How does Scrum work? And how do you do Scrum effectively? Part one lays out the essence of Scrum in over 20 clear and attractive infographics. It strives to be true to the 2020 Scrum guide, while adding a pinch of salt and pepper to keep things interesting! Use it to explain Scrum, clear up misunderstandings, and have great conversations about Scrum in your organization.

Part two addresses applying Scrum in real life, with tips on when it's okay to change Scrum, team organization, backlog refinement and more. Use the images to reflect on how to improve performance and maybe, just maybe, produce estimates you can believe in.

The book is available on Lean Pub. You can choose your discount (up to 58% off) or, for a limited time, even select a free "community edition."

Depending of the feedback I get, it is either 45% or 90% done, so I'd love to hear from you about the book!

Buy or download it here. You can set the price. Whichever you choose, I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the book!

Thanks!

Peter

New Short Video: Six Questions to Change Your Life

Peter Stevens — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:56:25 +0000

Hi everyone,

Want to get right to the heart of Personal Agility? Don't want to spend more than two minutes with it? I have put out a new edition of the Agile Minute (with a new, more beautiful version of the Six Questions diagram. Check it out (with improved sound!) on YouTube: S1E03- Six Questions to Change Your Life

Peter

P.S. Here's a peak at the new graphic:

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Agile Minute S1E01: How to align action with purpose

Peter Stevens — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:56:21 +0000

Hi everyone,

Now it is easier to share Personal Agility that ever before! Hot topics around Leadership, Agility, Scrum, Agile Contracting and of course, Personal Agility. Each video is under two minutes! It's called the Agile Minute!

S1E01 is about How to Align Action with Purpose. Check it out, and if you have ideas, suggestions, or questions, I'd love to hear them.

Peter

Agile Minute S1E01: How to Align Action with Purpose

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Announcing LDP, the Leadership Development Program with Personal Agility

Peter Stevens — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:19:30 +0000

For leadership at all levels of the organization, including Executives, Management, Coaches, and Contributors (especially knowledge workers and customer-facing workers).

Need

Many companies have so-called "agile transformations" in place. Despite these efforts, companies often remain challenged by linear, inflexible product development, find it difficult to respond effectively to changing customer requirements, or worry they are not keeping up with market changes.

The goals of Modern Leadership: Achieve long-term goals while responding effectively to change

The program addresses three core challenges that most modern organizations face:

Achieving key objectives sooner, despite changing conditions and priorities.
Responding effectively to change while still achieving long-term objectives.
Shaping the environment to prioritize, focus, and align actions.

Are you getting the desired results or ROI from your agile transformation? If you want better results, then this program is for you and your staff! Read all about it in the full announcement or contact us for more information!

Fixed Link: Last Event in the PAS Free Training Series: Agility and EBIT - Join us!

Peter Stevens — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:57:10 +0000

The registration link was broken in my previous post. Apologies. Here is the correct link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrd-yuqj0jHNOsTS8nlm2g7kTtvrXk___E

Apologies and see you tomorrow!

Peter

Original Message with corrected link follows ------>

Yes, it is really going to happen tomorrow: Agility and EBIT

Tomorrow, April 12, 2023 – 10am EST (16:00 CET/19:30 IST)
Agility and EBIT – Led by Peter

EBIT is of course Earnings before Interest and Taxes. I want to explore the relationship between Agility and Profitability. How come our companies are Agile but it hasn't made a difference in our profitability?

I look forward to discussing your challenges and will share some of my thinking and research tomorrow!

And we'll have a special offer on the first cohort of the Leadership Development Program with Personal Agility!

See you then!

Peter

Last Event in the PAS Free Training Series: Agility and EBIT - Join us!

Peter Stevens — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:02:47 +0000

Hi everyone,

Yes, it is really going to happen tomorrow: Agility and EBIT

Tomorrow, April 12, 2023 – 10am EST (16:00 CET/19:30 IST)
Agility and EBIT – Led by Peter

I look forward to discussing your challenges and will share some of my thinking and research tomorrow!

And we'll have a special offer on the first cohort of the Leadership Development Program with Personal Agility!

See you then!

Peter

Today: Two Free Training Events with Maria and Peter

Peter Stevens — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:45:08 +0000

Today, March 22, 2023 – 10am EST (15:00 CET/19:30 IST)
Accelerating Business Results – Led by Maria

Discover how you can embrace the future of work and unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation to accelerate your business results while harnessing the power of Personal Agility combined with emerging technologies and discover the limitless potential of your business.

Today, March 22, 2023 – 18:30 CET (1:30pm EST/23:00 IST)
Get Started With the Personal Agility System –
Hosted by Agile Coaching Practice Greece

Attention coaches: Today we are going to explore a powerful approach to achieving self-awareness for you and your clients: The Personal Agility System. You will come out of the workshop with a better understanding of what really matters to you, and will be poised to manage your week for maximum impact. You can use this approach with your clients.

You will also be the first to work with Peter using two new tools:

* Wonder.me, a virtual workspace that allows for more spontaneous interactions between participants
* Kanban Zone, an easy, flexible, and powerful way to manage your boards. (Use my code for an extended free trial.)

Wonder.me is a bit of an experiment. It looks really cool, but this is, for me at least, the first attempt for a real event. Cue drum roll!

Join us for either or both of these opportunities. I look forward seeing you there!

Edit - corrected the time for the Getting Started Event to 3 and 1/2 hours after Accelerating Business Results