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  1. What is agile? Its origin and evolution as a modern business management approach for growth, performance and well-being https://beingagile.co.uk/what-is-agile/
  2. Agile Planning Guide – Estimation & Prioritisation – In this Agile Planning guide we will apply agile estimation and prioritisation tools to help inform our sprint planning and decision making. https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-planning-guide/
  3. The Minimum Viable Product, MVP, is a popular agile concept that is hard to pin down to a single definition, it can be used in many contexts and scenarios, read more about MVP’s here https://beingagile.co.uk/minimum-viable-product/
  4. Here’s an article about the Being Agile Method  https://beingagile.co.uk/being-agile-method/
  5. Read about the Being Agile Manifesto & Principles – understand the mindset, values and beliefs of agility. https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-manifesto-2-0-a-small-incremental-improvement/
  6. Here’s a guide about applying Agile in Project Management https://beingagile.co.uk/applying-agile-project-management/
  7. Here’s a guide for Applying Agile for Managing Workflow https://beingagile.co.uk/applying-agile-managing-workflow/
  8. Read this guide to applying Agile for Building Agile Solutions https://beingagile.co.uk/applying-agile-working-solutions/
  9. Stand up meetings are a really popular style of meeting in agile teams. Read this guide to sprint check ins and how they can help monitor progress, flag up problems and keep up to speed https://beingagile.co.uk/stand-up-meetings/
  10. Agile is an adaptive method – Here’s a guide about why we value Adaptive over Predictive Planning https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-adaptive-planning-over-predictive-planning/
  11. Here’s a simple introduction to adaptive agile methods and its comparison to traditional predictive methods https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-methods/
  12. We can use agile to help us to create a sustainable pace that helps us to maximise our performance, read more here about how you can find your own sustainable pace using agile  https://beingagile.co.uk/creating-a-sustainable-pace-to-maximise-performance/
  13. We need to consider the complexity of something in order to help us to estimate how long it might take.  Here’s a great matrix to help us to broadly categorise ideas and tasks to plan and prioritise effectively from simple to chaotic! https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-planning-considering-complexity/
  14. The Art of Maximising Work Not Done – Find out more about the Pareto Principle and how you can apply it! https://beingagile.co.uk/the-art-of-maximising-work-not-done-pareto-principle/
  15. Watch this video discussing the benefits and challenges of Metrics and how we should value Sanity metrics over vanity metrics https://beingagile.co.uk/sanity-metrics-over-vanity-metrics/
  16. Agile Mindset : Being agile over being perfect https://beingagile.co.uk/being-agile-over-being-perfect/
  17. Being Agile in Leadership : Be an agile business leader https://beingagile.co.uk/being-agile-in-leadership-be-an-agile-business-leader/
  18. Agile Management: Tips for building a brighter future  https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-management-tips-for-building-a-brighter-future/
  19. 10 ways your business can become more agile today https://beingagile.co.uk/10-ways-your-business-can-become-more-agile-today/
  20. How to Build an Agile Culture https://beingagile.co.uk/build-an-agile-culture/
  21. A Guide to Agile Working  https://beingagile.co.uk/a-guide-to-agile-working-what-is-it-and-how-you-can-apply-it-to-business/
  22. Six Ways to Work Smarter using Agile https://beingagile.co.uk/six-ways-to-work-smarter/
  23. How to build an agile business https://beingagile.co.uk/how-to-build-an-agile-business/
  24. What is Agile Working – How your Firm can think fast and innovate https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-working-how-your-firm-can-think-fast-and-innovate/
  25. Facilitating Meetings : Great Tips to make your Meetings more Effective https://beingagile.co.uk/great-tips-to-make-you-meetings-more-effective/
  26. 5 Tips for Agile Working : Guest Blog, Jarrang : A Smarter Approach: A guide to agile working https://beingagile.co.uk/5-tips-for-being-agile-guest-blog-for-jarrang-a-smarter-approach-a-guide-to-agile-working/
  27. Agile Principles : Conversation is key to effective communication https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-principles-conversation-key-to-communication/
  28. I love sticky notes, the more colours the better!  How do you peel yours?!  Here’s a great fun video with tips on how to make the most of sticky notes on our you tube channel here https://youtu.be/vwT8Y9uF0_I
  29. Feel the fear and do it the agile way – 25 ways to feel the fear and do it the agile way. Tips for boosting your agility and well-being https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-way/
  30. 25+ Being Agile Books to Read, People to Follow https://beingagile.co.uk/being-agile-books/
  31. A to Z of Being Agile in Business – https://beingagile.co.uk/a-z-agile/
  32. Agile Mindset Books – 10 books for developing an agile mindset https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-mindset-book/
  33. If you would like to learn a bit more about Being Agile Roadmaps. You can watch the Remember the Future Roadmap workshop and create your own here https://youtu.be/4oKqpC_jN34
  34. Building a Sustainable Pace in a Team: The Importance of Rhythm and Slack https://beingagile.co.uk/building-a-sustainable-pace-in-a-team/
  35. What is agile swarming and how it can be applied https://beingagile.co.uk/what-is-agile-swarming/
  36. 8 Hats of an Agile Guide! Teacher Trainer Facilitator Advisor Consultant Coach Mentor – Sandwich Analogy https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-guide/
  37. Being Agile in High Growth Businesses https://beingagile.co.uk/being-agile-in-high-growth-businesses/
  38. Being Agile GROW Model guide, game, 75+ questions https://beingagile.co.uk/grow-model-guide-example/
  39. Agile Language – Buzzwords and Job Titles – the obvious and the ambiguous https://beingagile.co.uk/agile-buzzwords/
  40. Improving Flow – How to map your Customer Journey and create a customer Pipeline board https://beingagile.co.uk/improving-flow-how-to-map-your-customer-journey/

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