Hello, my friends, Thank you for your follow-up and support. Recently I chatted with my friend, Peter Lee, and decided to join Agile Co-lab and work with him to share our experiences, and thoughts about business agility. This will help me connect with a larger community and create better content. I will eventually migrate the articles in Agility Booster to Agile Co-lab and expect to have your continued support in the future. Many thanks!

Regarding the fundamental abilities for organizational business agility, apart from the first one — Team Teams, the second ability is iterative development. Why is it important? Because the core of agility is learning, inspecting and adapting. In the ever-evolving world, how quickly we learn will decide how successful we can…

Establishing business agility is about building/uplifting the abilities that will enable the organization to adapt to the change quickly and thrive in the uncertain and turbulent world. Although different organizations will need varied abilities, there are some fundamental ones that all organizations should have. …

When I worked in different organizations to help them improve their agility, I observed that many were talking about changing the Agile mindset or culture only. I have no doubts that the mindset is important, however, it is not sufficient to bring agility to the organization. Everyone would agree that…

Many years ago, I worked as an internal Agile coach in a software development company and have been asked to help a team build a large new product feature using Scrum. I was glad to have the opportunity as it was quite challenging with many unknowns. To understand more about…

“Let’s organise a regular team lunch from the next Sprint!”, the team decided on the improvement action at the end of the retrospective. This was what happened in a few of the teams I worked with before. Other similar “improvement” actions were, Let’s have more time for requirements analysis Let’s…

As an agile coach, you sit with the business manager in a meeting room. She is asking for your advice to set up a “front-door” process to manage the requests from different stakeholders to her teams. Currently, those stakeholders will talk with the team directly and ask the team to…

In a conversation with a manager, he asked me how to assess his team’s maturity level. He also shared with me that he had researched and found some Agile maturity assessment models that might help. I quickly went through some of these models he found on the internet, many of…

In the morning, you chatted with a business stakeholder when both of you were ordering coffee in a cafe near the office. She mentioned that her team has many ideas to improve the product. She asked if your team could help to build prototypes. Because the company requires all of…