Agile
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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Part 2: Moderate Innovation Products
What if you can plan for a few weeks or even a month-plus at a time? You don’t need the…
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Balance Innovation, Commitment, & Feedback Loops: Part 1: High Innovation Products
Many of my clients are trying to use short feedback loops in agile approaches. That desire bumps up against their management’s desires…
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Error handling omitted for brevity
Q: What is the difference between programming in college and programming in the real world?A: Error handling Do you remember…
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The illusion of agility (what most Agile transformations end up delivering)
Agility is a unique and continuously evolving state that is typical to a specific organization with its people and its…
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What can Product Development learn from our body temperature regulating system?
Systems are all around us, and inside us. Understanding the systems we live and work in is fundamental if we…
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“Agile Coaching” Is Not the Goal
I’ve met a number of agile coaches recently. They tell me they’re hired as Scrum coaches or as Scrum Masters.…
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The power of small declines
Last year I wrote about the power of 1% improvement, and how powerful this can be when that improvement occurs…
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Help Managers Visualize Their Problems
I’ve been working with several managers at organizations large and small, who want to capitalize their software “earlier.” These managers…
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Technical Debt and Product Success
Similar to a company experiencing financial debt, products can incur “technical debt”: This happens when wrong or suboptimal architecture, technology,…
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