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The Back Story – Caitilin Studdert

ADAPTOVATE MONTHLY INTERVIEW SERIES Our Monthly interview with one of the ADAPTOVATE team. Each month we ask one of our team from around the world to answer 10 questions. While not in the same league as The Proust Questionnaire – we think it’s a great way to share our stories with you. This month we […]

Addicted to agile teams that are greedy and gutsy

Caitilin makes the connection between her big family and her consulting life… After 20 years of corporate marketing I am addicted to agile and helping teams develop new ways of working. Agile employs cross-functional teams to create a product, service or campaign. The onus is upon the team to consistently test whether what they are […]

Paging Dr House, can television medical dramas teach us about Agile?

Alex makes some valid links between what it is to be an agile team with television medical dramas and how they operate. Would George Clooney have been the amazing doctor he was on ER if it wasn’t for the fact that he and his teams were autonomous? or would McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy be free […]

Can Agile work without co-located, dedicated teams?

Paul McNamara wrote a really interesting article on whether Agile could without co-located and dedicated teams. Would love to hear your thoughts on if you think it’s possible and what kind of pitfalls teams come up against when trying to form teams that aren’t co-located and dedicated. In the real world, however, it’s not quite […]