Ray Arell
Ray Arell is the founder of nuAgility, as well as the facilitator of the Strategic Agility Lab and host of the Agile Coaching Network (ACN) Podcast. He is a collaborative and inclusive leader and coach who loves to inspire and motivate others to achieve their full potential. Ray has 30 years of experience building and leading outstanding multinational teams in Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, and startups. He’s also recognized as a leading expert in large-scale Agile adoptions, engineering practices, Lean, and complex adaptive systems, and has delivered over 20 keynotes and talks sharing his knowledge across the globe.
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If you’re interested in Business Agility, here are some upcoming things that you will want to keep an eye out for:
A special report on Business Agility in the Times on March 2…
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Working from home or another remote location is not a new concept. High-tech companies have been doing this over the last decade, and it was becoming increasingly popular even…
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Welcome to 2022! I thought an excellent way to start the new year would be to take a few minutes and review the basics of Agile. This might be an old topic for some of you, bu…
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A few weeks back, a good friend Elizabeth Hendrickson tweeted about her approach to learning as being quite non-linear. Like her, this has been my approach to problem-solving,…
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It is unclear when the phrase “stop admiring the problem” came into my leadership tool kit, but I have been using it to improve my personal and business life for about two dec…
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Sustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of value delivery by not pushing humans too …
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I am a strong believer that sound organizational models are the key to a company's success and its viability in the complex world in which it must survive.
The key to any v…
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Your Request to Improve is Denied!
A few weeks back, I was at the Agile Testing Days conference in Germany, and I had a great conversation with one of the attendees about what…
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A few weeks ago, I got into an interesting discussion at the eXperience Agile event over in Portugal about whether Agile helps or kills innovation. I found this to be a very t…
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That's something that David Hussman said to me a few years ago. He loved jamming with people on new ideas, and I had the honor of being in a number of those conversations with…
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I just got off a call with another transformation coach who said his company is moving away from its transformation work, and they are going to be reverting to the basics that…
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I am very excited for the reboot of the Agile Coaching Network (ACN) live event and podcast, and I am equally happy that we are now part of a great member-supported nonprofit …
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Over the last couple of months, I have been collecting stories from Agile development teams and management looking for trends in how well that partnership is working. With ev…
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Daniel Pink said, “We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves…
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by Ray Arell, Jens Coldewey, Israel Gat, Jorgen Hesselberg
As Agile Methods have become one of the predominant ways for successful software development, we are inc…
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One of the biggest inhibitors to personal agility is having too much work in progress and no system to help visualize and manage your work. This ultimately inhibits you from e…
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A common complaint among firms trying, and failing, to drive profitable growth from Agile implementations is that short-term quarterly pressures prevent them from making longe…
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In this webinar, Steve Forte will give a no-holds-barred presentation about what’s really going on in Silicon Valley and the venture capital world and the relation to Agile. H…
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Many organizations have embraced Agile management on the assumption that if they upgrade existing products and services through cost reductions, time savings or quality enhanc…
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In this webinar series, Steve Denning will lead a discussion with thought leaders and business leaders about how Agile means more than development only — it enables business! …
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The usage of the Agile mindset and methods has become a competitive advantage for a number of companies over the past ten years. They have achieved this success …
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For Agile to become effective, it requires collaboration, communication, and a culture of continuous improvement. One way to achieve this is by building thriving communities o…