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Sometimes, you need a really quick game to liven up a meeting or workshop. For October’s Game On!, we hacked some of the popular Minute-to-Win-It Games to add some Agile …
Ellen Grove
Based in Ottawa, Canada, Ellen has been working in software development for over 20 years, moving from software testing to user-centered design to managing development teams to Agile coaching and training. Ellen is an Agile Coach, trainer and facilitator who works with organizations of all sizes - from startups to multinationals - to help them find more effective ways of working based on Lean and Agile principles and practices. After many years of organizing and presenting at Agile events at home and around the world, Ellen was elected to the Agile Alliance board of directors in 2017, and became the chair of the board in February 2020 before stepping into her current role.
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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…
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2021 was a very busy year for Agile Alliance!
As we come to the end of 2021, we wanted to highlight some of the great things that happened throughout the year that you may no…
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As we wrap up Agile2021, our first foray into running a large-scale global virtual conference–during an ongoing global pandemic–I’d like to take a moment to appreciate all of …
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Agile2021: With a Little Help from Our Friends
As we put the finishing touches on Agile2021, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the contributions of the MANY people and or…
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One of the few certainties about Agile 2021 is that it will be very different from past Agile20XX events. Moving Agile20xx online has required us to reconsider almost everythi…
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In this podcast, Howard Sublett and I chat about how Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance are working together this year to create a one-of-a-kind ex…
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Reinventing Agile2021 as an online event has led to reconsidering almost everything about how we put the conference together. On the upside, moving the event online has really…
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With everything that's going on in the world these days, Agile Alliance may be one of the last things on your mind. We get that. Still, as we mark our 20th anniversary, we'd l…
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February 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of the Agile movement, specifically the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Developmen…
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One upside of moving events online because of pandemic restrictions is that Agile events around the globe are suddenly accessible to a much broader segment of our community.
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When the co-authors of the Agile Manifesto defined adaptivity and responsiveness as one of the foundations of Agile, they could not possibly have foreseen everything that 2020…
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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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After many years of guiding Agile Alliance as its Managing director, Phil Brock has advised the Agile Alliance Board of Directors that he will be leaving the organization in A…
Videos
This event occurred on February 13, 2024. There were two sessions with the same panel. This is a recording of the first session. You can find the second session here. Below is…
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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…
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Ellen Grove and Janet Gregory have invited an illustrious round of guests to share their experiences and thoughts on how the Agile approach will develop in the near and far fu…
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Overview
Overview of the past year’s activities
Financial reports
Election Results: Meet the new board members
Plans for the next 12 months
How you can get inv…
Initiatives
Initiative Purpose
The Agile Alliance Conference Sponsorship Initiative is intended to support organizers of non-profit conferences that promote the concepts of Agile software…
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
This Game On session is called "The Pencil Challenge." Can you pass your pencil to other team members on a Zoom chat? Watch to see what problems a simple exercise such as this…
Event Sessions
This session centers around a visioning exercise that uses drawing. What are your intentions as you look at things from personal and professional points of view?
Come learn…
Event Sessions
For the past 20 years, Agile Alliance has been the leading non-profit membership organization dedicated to supporting Agile ways of working. This conversation–the 5th in the s…
Event Sessions
“We have reached the point where some mid-career developers have never known anything but Agile (or some definition of Agile). I wonder, on balance, though, how they feel abou…
Event Sessions
Come learn and share Agile games and exercises that can help to create Aha! moments for yourself, your teams, and those that lead them. We’ll bring our favorites, and encourag…
