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What You Need From Agile

Agile, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), EventStorming, SoftSkills / By Vaughn Vernon

There continues to be all kinds of messages about Agile. My assessment is that there is both a rejection of Agile and an effort to reestablish it more closely with its original guidance and aspirations. As a result, the message is close to this. Agile is dead. Long live Agile. The messages read to me …

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Empathy Is Key, But Actual Empathy Is Necessary

SoftSkills / By Vaughn Vernon

Empathy is defined as, “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” Notice that it doesn’t only say “the ability to recognize the feelings of others.” To emphasize sharing, I think a more accurate description of empathy is, “the ability to feel another person’s pain in your heart.”