How to Measure Team Agility
This article has some good thoughts on how to measure the health of your agile teams. I am personally looking at this currently as I am getting ready to spin up 8 scrum teams and need a way to assess...
View ArticleWhy Organizational Transformations Fail
A good post from Pawel looking at why many transformations fail. The heart of it really is… It’s not about the reorganization itself; it’s about changing the way business thinks. Until you change the...
View ArticleAgile is Not for Everyone
This is a great article over on Johanna Rothman’s blog. Transitioning to agile is hard. You must be dedicated, and also realistic. It really does take a culture change and not every company is ready...
View ArticleConfessions of a New Scrum Master
Very well written article with some really good advice. It is written as advice for those just completing their CSM, however I think it is good advice for all of us. Even those of us experienced with...
View ArticleIs Your Business Model a Good Fit for Agile?
I really enjoyed this post from Mike Cottmeyer. He describes two different business models, convergent and emergent, and talks about how agile/scrum fit into each. Understanding what business model...
View ArticlePredictability over High Performance
This is turning into a great series by Mike Cottmeyer. He gets a little sidetracked today, but gives yet another reminder that the Shu-Ha-Ri model holds true for agile just like anything else. You...
View ArticleSo You’ve Just Joined a Struggling Team
Len had another great post over on Illustrated Agile the other day. He gives you a list of questions to consider, in order, when you join a new agile team and that team is struggling. Having worked...
View ArticleCorporate Scrum
Jonathan Rasmusson has a quick post on what he calls “Corporate Scrum” Corporate Scrum is a term I use for companies that do traditional Waterfall in 30 day sprints. I like the term. I especially like...
View ArticleXP is the Mac of Agile
Jonathan has a good post over on Agile Warrior comparing XP to the Mac. XP was great, but has been outpaced by something simpler and easier to adopt similar to how the Mac was outpaced by the PC....
View ArticleMistakes: The Core of Agility
I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy listening to TED talks. I’ve started listening to the TED Radio Hour podcast produced by NPR in which they pull together several related TED talks. They...
View ArticleAgile is NOT for you… |
If your company is not open to change or trying new things or running experiments in order to learn, then, Agile is NOT for you. Source: Agile is NOT for you… | Having gone through several attempted...
View ArticleThe Agile Coaching Dilemma — RGalen Consulting
But I do think the revenue potential is getting in the way of the decision-making as well. As agile coaches, we have a responsibility to our clients. But we also have a responsibility to the Agile...
View ArticleTeams, Backlogs, Working Tested Software -LeadingAgile
At the end of the day… for me, for LeadingAgile… it comes down to three things. Can you form teams, do those teams have an actionable backlog, are those teams able to produce a working tested increment...
View ArticleWhat Agile Feels Like · Illustrated Agile
When an Agile team states, “We need to check with the business”, I’m pretty sure things are not feeling very agile. There is no such thing as “the business” and “technology”…we are all the business and...
View ArticleLocking Cadences to Optimize the Whole Scaled System – Not Really…| Paul Boos
The complicated-ordered process thrown on a simple-complex team yields a complicated-complex result. This isn’t achieving what we wanted… Source: Locking Cadences to Optimize the Whole Scaled System –...
View ArticleThe Agile Coaching Dilemma – An Addendum — RGalen Consulting
Then I asked him a fundamental question. Have you ever walked away from an agile engagement because the client wasn’t interested in supporting something that you considered important to their success...
View ArticleHolacracy and the Search for Agile Organization
Agile software development is truly a stark contrast to the machine-like predict-and-control methods of a waterfall approach. For better or worse, agile methods are also in stark contrast to the...
View ArticlePowerful Visualization Questions that can Kick-Start your Culture Change |...
Culture change is often initiated by management based on a recipe found in the latest, hot business book or using an “eight-step plan to transform your culture” delivered by a consultant. While these...
View ArticleThe Newest Craze in Agile: Simplicity and UN-Scaling | Bob Galen
I think that all of the scaling hoopla is just that. I don’t believe we have a distributed team problem or a scaling problem in today’s small or large-scale agile contexts. And huge applications don’t...
View ArticleMaking Failure Acceptable through Failure Cake
Last year I had a post called Mistakes: The Core of Agility. In this post I discussed the fact that being agile means we accept the fact that mistakes happen. We have to be willing and able to talk...
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