Subscribe to this blog
Interested in a Lean-Agile-Scrum course or Workshop?
Recent Posts
Categories
- agile
- agile business
- Agile principles
- Better Agile
- business value
- BV Engineering
- Change Management
- courses
- Events
- freedom
- Getting started
- impediments
- Innovation
- Jeff Sutherland
- Kanban
- Key problems
- knowledge creation
- leadership
- lean
- Lean Software Development
- learning
- Listings
- Little's Law
- Little's Second Law
- managing agile
- Misc
- Nokia Test
- Paying
- People issues
- Recommended reading
- Release Planning
- Resources
- scaling
- Scrum
- Scrum Intro
- Scrum meetings
- Scrum roles
- ScrumButt
- ScrumButt Test
- Self-organization
- Talks
- Teams
- Uncategorized
- video
- WIP
- Yogi Berra
Archives
Proposed Reading List
A teacher recently told me this: “To know and not to do is not to know.” We know from many teachers that we learn best by thinking a bit and then practicing some, and then thinking some more and practicing more. This is embedded, as one example, in the Deming Cycle. So, I have already […]
Business Value: Some useful links…
Here are some related links you may find useful: I like these principles of Lean, especially the first one, about specifying value. And I like this HBR article by Womack and Jones on Lean consumption: See what they call the six principles of Lean consumption. I call ’em a pretty good summary of what people […]
Business Value: What is it?
On Wednesday, I will lead a session on Business Value in Charlotte, N.C. The topic will be, “What is it?” This is Part 1 of the full session I will lead at Agile 2007. (Part 2 in Charlotte will happen on May 24, 2007.) My hypothesis is that we don’t know as much about Business […]
Jeff Sutherland in Charlotte July 11-12
Jeff Sutherland will teach a Certified ScrumMaster course in Charlotte on July 11 to 12. See Jeff’s blog for some information. See here for specific information. Jeff includes a lot of ideas associated with XP and Lean in his practice of Scrum. (And equally, Kent Beck and the Poppendiecks have been influenced by Jeff Sutherland, […]
Leaders, Managers, Bosses, and Administrators
This is another blog post inspired by the Poppendiecks, their books and their interest in Lean. In their book “Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash,” the Poppendiecks talk, as one of their topics, about leadership. They raise several excellent points. A team needs leadership. Which is to say, vision. Someone to inspire and […]
A fourth Google video (Lean-Agile)
Thanks to Artem Marchenko for mentioning the Poppendieck’s talk at Google, titled Competing on the basis of Speed.
Google, Agile and Business Value
Google announced on 4/20/2007 that it earned $1.002 billion in the first quarter. The Net was up 69% from 2006. The sales increase was not too shabby either. Maybe it’s a company we can learn from. (Or maybe they are just lucky.) Google uses Agile. As I hear, Agile isn’t forced on anyone, and many […]
Three Google/Agile videos
Google is doing Agile, and four people have come to talk at the Googleplex about Agile. (Maybe more.) One is Ken Schwaber, who talked to them for about an hour, mostly about Scrum. The excellent video of his talk is here. The nuances of Scrum become clearer when you hear Ken explain it. His website […]
Carnival of the Agilists for Apr 20
Mark Levison, a friendly Canadian (I am working with a bunch of those Canadians lately) has the controls for the Carnival of the Agilists this time. Again, we are honored to have been selected, this time for Adopting Agile and similar posts related to Lean. Check it out. And check out the Agile Tangents group […]
Adopting Agile (Lean Software Development – 4)
Brad Appleton, whom I mentioned in my last short post, also had this post linking to Agile Adoption as reported in the Agile Journal. This issue is talking about top-down Agile Adoption. My own view is generally that the workers deliver to the customers, and the managers support the workers. So, in line with that, […]