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Category Archives: agile
What to tell the Executives?
To be successful with Agile, sooner or later we want to engage the Executives. Or, sometimes, they are already engaged, but we feel we need to talk to them. To have them understand more or do something differently. So, first, be patient and be hopeful. Too many of us (agile advocates) start the conversation feeling […]
Public Impediments – Toronto March 2014
Here are the issues this group thought were important. Many are ‘issues’ in a waterfall model. The list is not in order of priority, nor necessarily impediments in an Agile model. Some are vague to us (stated in too few words), but I think they knew what they really meant. Maybe one or two is […]
Question: More on Agile Contracts
Gabriel asks: Can you suggest a few relevant papers on Agile contracts? I am interested in both the ad-hoc, non-commercial agreements, to maximize, based on Pareto law naive application, the output of PO-development team through collaboration, and the commercial agreements that best support such an objective. I read this: http://www.agilecontracts.org/agile_contracts_primer.pdf but I would like to […]
Agile Contracts – The Poppendiecks
Here are some additional resources for Agile Contracts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ajwxtalBKE Above is a good presentation by Mary Poppendieck about ‘agile contracts’ via video. From 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/AgileLietuva/mary-poppendieck-agile-under-contract And above is a slide deck of a presentation by Mary Poppendieck in 2011. Not the same one as the video. And be aware that the Poppendiecks have done many […]
Open Agile Adoption
Open Agile Adoption is an ‘open’ approach to adopting and evolving agile in a given company or group. By ‘open’ we mean that we are engaging the people (who will be changing) in designing the change. We do not mean total chaos. Management might establish some ‘guardrails’ (eg, we will do Agile as defined in […]
Impediments – Charlotte in-house course
These impediments were identified (some I think are redundant). Note that some are expressed in quite a different way (eg, some negative, some positive). Dups may indicate that an issue is very important. Legacy Code impacts Allocate the correct people to the team Address Env Issues Define scope / business ask (better) Multiple decision makers […]
A song for the season
In the western world, this is the season of peace. One of my favorite hymns from this time of year is ‘O come, o come Emmanuel’. Emmanuel means ‘God with us.’ Here is a version by Linda Ronstadt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsqk9FOBtuo Below are two verses from the lyrics: O come, Thou Day spring from on high, and […]
Impediments – Charleston
We just completed a CSM course and Agile Release Planning workshop in Charleston. Here are some of the impediments they identified. They have duplications and they are not in any particular order. In my opinion, the list should also include automated testing, better continuous integration, and better automated integration/regression testing. These were issues discussed later […]
What does it mean to be ‘Ready’?
Jeffry Hesse wrote this blog post. [Link now broken. Sorry!] It inspired me to write the post below. The new Scrum Guide says that PBIs (product backlog items) must be well-understood and granular enough for Sprint Planning. PB Refinement is the process we use to get them to Ready. Those are not quotes, but that […]
Lean-Agile Resources
We have put together some Lean-Agile Resources on these pages. These include: books, articles, videos, blogs, LinkedIn groups, etc, etc. Please give us your feedback and suggestions.