Scrum, Lean, DevOps and agile approaches are each only one small part of modern software development. To be successful, you need more. You need to fill in the missing pieces. You need a growth mindset with the GROWS Method.®
Modern software development needs a flexible, responsive, iterative development workflow with fast feedback and true continuous delivery. But to get that, you need all the right supporting elements in the environment.
Our 3-day Grows Method workshop and Project Simulation workshop can help (NEW: Public Workshops now available).
The GROWS Method® leverages the best that we've learned with current approaches and places them in an inclusive, sustainable, growth-centric environment, customized to fit the most important team of all—yours.
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The GROWS Method® contains many habits. At some point you’ll need most if not all of them. Our most recent article Field Report by Malte Fiala shows how to improve delivering value using only three habits. [more...]
We’re pleased to offer our GROWS Method® project simulation, the Choices & Consequences Workshop this March 2, 2023. Project teams make decisions everyday, usually without enough time and not enough data. You suffer today because poor decisions were made a year ago. All your actions and decisions have side effects—and unintended consequences. But it’s difficult to understand how your actions and decisions play out over the course of months or years. Many developers only deal with a handful of projects over their whole career. With such slow feedback, how can you best learn what works and what doesn’t? We use a simulation. [more...]
Every day we face numerous problems to solve. But as we get better at problem solving, our work often brings us new and more challenging problems. The problem with problems is that [more...]
A software development “process” is often the wrong tool for the job. The GROWS Method® is not about process, it’s about growing an ecosystem to support learning, exploration, and consistent, reliable, continuous delivery. You’ll grow your code, your skills, and your organization’s capabilities. [more...]
“I think we all agree that what agile is today has nothing to do with what it was conceived to be. Why are there so many misconceptions around agile?” Malak Bougader interviews Andy Hunt. [more...]
"I used a GROWS starting path at a client in 2021. It was highly effective. The 'trick' was to take 'agree to try' really seriously, doing multiple rounds of 'creating psychological safety' and 'agree to try'.
—Malte Fiala, Enterprise Architect, Vienna, AT
"I especially like the GROWS Method® fixed-rate understanding of team velocity. I've used that idea on a project where I was able to show that given our task list and our current velocity (reported daily on a wall calendar), we needed help. We got it, and I was then able to show we were on track."
—Mike B., Victoria, BC
"The themes that hit closest to home for me were aligning my work with Executive Vision/Initiatives, permitting Experimentation and tracking my growth through a Learning Journal. I recommend learning how the GROWS Method® can help your team grow through the application of Agile and Lean methodologies and beyond."
—Harold M., RTP, NC
"Best presentation of the conference. Best articulation of the usefulness, right use, and limitations of agile."
—An Introduction to The GROWS Method®, Agile Development Conference East
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—Zemira L., The GROWS Method® Tutorial
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