Ray Arell in his Agile Alliance staff role visits with Eric Abelen, Agile Coach at ING Bank. Together in this short video, they look at the ING's House of Agile and other cool Agile work spaces inside ING. #BusinessAgility #Spaces

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 every story entered into Agile Alliance's Narrative Project, we seem to hit the same not so magic number--60% say that partnership is not really working very well. It can be seen in story titles like, "No trust from the middle," "Nobody on the same page," "Waterfall in agile clothing," and "Old mindset tr

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.” Stories give us the ability to see from the perspectives of the people in our Agile community, and in turn give us insight about the world so we can perhaps change it for the better. That is really what the Narrative Project is all about. Now saying this I know that doing both are not at all easy. Col

For the last several years I’ve been exploring the topic of business agility, and I want to share some of my thoughts and insights about the subject. First off, a number of people have been relating this topic to the Agile software development movement. I’ve been guilty of doing this myself over the years, and I do believe that the Agile culture and mindset do play a strong role in the greater agility of organizations and companies. But I would like to put that aside for a