Comments on: Agile & Culture: The Results

By: Agile Culture is all about People (Like, duh!)

Agile Culture is all about People (Like, duh!) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:41:20 +0000

[...] Spayd has done the community a great service by undertaking a culture survey of Agilistas. The results are very striking: it shows that the two dominant cultures are collaboration and [...]

By: Brendan Walsh

Brendan Walsh — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:58:48 +0000

This was very useful, thanks! What jumped out at me is how important coaching from a third party can be. For example, I often see management with check-book commitments to organizational change, and expect people to read a book or just start collaborating and then call themselves agile. To really become a culture of Collaboration, I think an organization should build consensus on what their “meaning” is in “relationship to their customer” (Cultivation). Perhaps then, a nice balance of Collaboration & Cultivation can persist.

By: Implementing Scrum and Agile … Tools, please disappear! at Urban Turtle's blog

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:10:00 +0000

[...] resources available. I suggest you have a look at Bill Schneider’s work. I also suggest this blog post from Michael [...]

By: How we do things around here in order to succeed

How we do things around here in order to succeed — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:14:04 +0000

[...] I attended Israel Gat’s session with this title at Agile 2010. I was already familiar with some of the concepts based on a private seminar given to my coaching circle by Michael Spayd. [...]

By: Michael Sahota

Michael Sahota — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:13:36 +0000

Thank you for sharing your results. I find this very interesting especially in the context of adopting Agile at organizations.

I think the low score in Competence is reflected in the need for the community to increase its attention to craftsmanship – http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/