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Agile Management
Facing the facts early on. Risk Mitigation can be a powerful motivator.
Recently, I was able to witness a remarkable event in a company that is relatively new to Agile. They have several teams at about Sprint 12, with several new teams just starting up. Many of their processes are waterfall based. A failed waterfall project was moved to an existing Agile Team. In the second...
What’s in your Agile Transformation Backlog?
Michael Badali, a good friend of mine, has asked a great question on LinkedIn: What is your Backlog for Agile Transformation?. From his question: While I think that Band-Aid off quick is more likely to be successful than Band-Aid off slow, often Agile Coaches & Leaders are put in the position of Kaizen instead...
Agile Transformation and the Chasm
In his book “Crossing the Chasm“, Geoffrey Moore describes the difficulty of creating a popular new product due to a conceptual “chasm” between the first people who adopt a new product and those who come later. He describes five types of people in relation to how they adopt new products: Innovators – always actively...
Agile Job Opportunity in the UK !
Agile Thought Leader HP Enterprise Services - UK; Various locations (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom) Job Description HP is seeking Agile Thought Leaders to provide: Mentoring, Coaching, Training and Assessment internally and to customers. Our Agile Leadership: Supports organisations in exploring, adopting and optimising Agile habits, based on the foundation of Agile principles and values. Assesses, trains,...
Truthfulness and High Performance Teams
Mike Caspar has another great post, this time about being truthful about the challenges of working in a high performance team environment.
OpenAgile is not (just) Empirical
A few weeks ago, David Parker and I had a conversation about some of the differences between Scrum and OpenAgile. We hit upon one really interesting thing: Scrum strongly emphasizes that it is a purely empirical approach to doing work… and OpenAgile does not make that claim. In fact, OpenAgile, while it includes empiricism,...
Where should I sit?
Inevitably, there will be some change to your team. Someone will leave or perhaps you will have new members joining you. Either way, you will be asked the question “Where should I sit?”. Do not take this question lightly. You have the opportunity to make significant changes with the addition or departure of a...