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Top Global Lean/ Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers 2025

NimbleWork

These innovators, coaches, and consultants are not just theoriststhey are practitioners making a measurable impact in the Agile and Kanban communities. Karl A L Smith Karl Smith is a global expert in customer engagement, specializing in Agile methodologies and enterprise technology across various industries.

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Is it worth it to become a Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

In March 2021, I was conversing with a CTO of a Product based company. Treat your career course as a trial. We bring great value to clients by building capabilities through our training, coaching, and consulting services. He asked me a question that if it was worth employing a Scrum Master. There is no direct answer.

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Cargo Cult Agile — A Checklist to Open the Discussion

Scrum.org

Consequently, many consultants responded to the increasing demand for agile practitioners, particularly from corporate organizations, by rebranding themselves. And if the people don’t live up to them, if metrics are not met, then you need–of course–more structure, more rules “to fix Scrum.”. So, good practices become rules overnight.

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Six Ways How Dev And Marketing Teams Can Collaborate Effortlessly

Proofhub

When marketing and technology teams collaborate and utilize team management software , they frequently complement one another in practical ways. Of course, the marketing team may face barriers if the tech team has no idea what a digital marketing plan is. Six Ideas for Marketing and IT Working Together 1. Are there possible roadblocks?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Project Management

” Of course, it’s more complicated than just checking boxes on a question list. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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Overview and Key Themes of IIL’s 2021 Agile & Scrum Online Conference

International Institute for Learning

In his session Shifting Left until We Shift Right , Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI will help us understand the principles such as DevOps and CI/CD in the context of agile development, and how scenario planning can minimize cost and risk while maximizing value delivery. Move from Resisting Agile to Yes, Agile! Additional Learning.

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International Institute for Learning

In his session Shifting Left until We Shift Right , Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI will help us understand the principles such as DevOps and CI/CD in the context of agile development, and how scenario planning can minimize cost and risk while maximizing value delivery. Move from Resisting Agile to Yes, Agile! Additional Learning.

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