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Getting back into the swing of things in the first week of January can be a bit of a grind. We wanted to build some excitement about kicking off the new year with a Game On me…
April Jefferson
April leads with empathy and courage while partnering with others to help unlock their full potential. Believes the path to authentic growth and change begins with invitation and a people centered approach. She favors a blended mindset of agile, lean, design thinking, open space and improvisation when engaging. April values connecting people to ownership of their needs and goals. You may find April coaching organizations, speaking at conferences, facilitating social change as a Design Action Lab partner, or mentoring youth.
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Growing a Global Community for Learning and Impact
“Ahas” are beautiful moments because of the learning within them. The pandemic exposed the elephant in the room here at Agil…
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I am moved that Agile Alliance invested numerous hours providing space for this conversation.
That members and subscribers showed up over and over from all over the world to p…
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We wrapped up our designathon, by again continuing to address those complex problems, with real solutions to grow racial equity for black lives in the Agile community.
Grou…
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It’s exciting to see Design Thinking work in navigating a path to social change.
A journey where listening has led to empathy and understanding, of myriad solution ideas. We a…
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A recap of our July 10th event
In order to explore Growing Racial Equity in the Agile Community for Black Lives, it felt natural to use a design thinking approach. When faced …
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Listening and Empathy in the Agile Community
The world was shaken by yet another graphic video showing us the effects of racism – so severe that it resulted in yet another lif…
Agile Games
This is an exercise to help people understand why pair programming works; in particular why it produces better code. It has some usefulness for helping technical team members …
Agile Games
Pass on Perfection is a game suitable for creating a Minimally Viable Product or anything else you need that is minimally viable. Several people have reported on using it for …
Videos
The Agile Manifesto tells us that “the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation,” but how can…
Initiatives
Purpose
The purpose of this initiative is to support and encourage Open Space Technology (OST) events in the Agile software arena. (See Open Space.)
Agile Open Initiative Even…
Experience Reports
Are you an agile or UX professional or community minded person looking for something more? Discover how we experimented with organizing and addressing social issues with lean,…
Event Sessions
Questions are useful tools–they help open lines of communication, get information, understand others, and motivate new ideas. We’ll play some games using different types of q…
Event Sessions
In this interactive talk, we get intimate with Flow.
As a practitioner, how are you responding to this hyper-connected and distracting work environment? How is it impacting…
Event Sessions
What causes you to wait? What causes re-work? Andy Kwong, Rei Pamintuan, Aaron Griffith, and Austin Chadwick share not only horror stories of things not getting…
Event Sessions
In this AgileMiniCon 2022 fishbowl session, Jenny Tarwater answers questions about how to have fun in an Agile atmosphere.…
Event Sessions
Business and tech people often speak different languages, which makes sense because they have different mindsets. While this enables them to be good at their very different jo…
Event Sessions
The processes that have grown up around “Agile” are all capable of being spread too thin, of being understood so poorly that they deliver only mediocre results at best. They c…
