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Maximizing the work NOT done
One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto makes the seemingly paradoxical statement: “the art of maximizing the amount of work not done”. This statement is part of the 10th principle ...
Why Time Is No Measure For Progress
One of the questions that Project Managers always pop up during projects is: “how many days will it take to finish this work?”. This is a very natural and sensible question. You ...
Effective Sprint Goals
Working with a sprint goal is a powerful agile practice. This post helps you understand what sprint goals are, why they matter, how to write and to track them. The Sprint Goal Explained A ...
The Product Demo as an Agile Market Research Method
This post helps you use your product demos as an effective agile market research tool: to collect relevant feedback in order to validate your ideas and improve your product. If you ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Backlog
The product backlog is an important tool: It lists ideas, requirements, and new insights. But is it always the right tool to use? This post discusses the strengths of a traditional ...
11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths
I deliver a lot of Agile training courses and I give a lot of talks about Agile (BCS Bristol tonight). There are some questions that come up again and again which are the result of ...
Organizing an Agile Program: Part 2, Networks for Managing Agile Programs
In Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction, I discussed the difference between hierarchies and networks. I used Scrum of Scrums as an example. It could be any organizing hierarchy. ...
Organizing an Agile Program: Part 1, Introduction
If you want to organize an agile program, so you can manage the stream of features in your agile program, you have some options. It depends on the size of your program. The communication ...
Managing the Stream of Features in an Agile Program
One of the challenges in a program is how you manage the checkins, especially if you have continuous integration. I am quite fond of continuous integration, no matter how large your ...
Design Doesn’t Emerge from Code
I know a lot of people who are transitioning to Agile or already following Agile development methods. Almost all of them are using something based on Scrum at the core, mixed with common ...
