Agile
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What are you defining as “Done”?
Agility is why most organizations adopt Scrum. The actual agility an organization achieves is rooted in how sophisticated Scrum is…
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 5: Agile Management
One of the challenges I see in organizations is how managers can use agile approaches. One of the biggest problems…
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Thinking About What to Call Team Members and Managers
Bob Sutton (@work_matters) tweeted this the other day: Perhaps companies ought to stop using “IC” or “Individual Contributor.” It seems…
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 4A: Sharing Agile Outside of Product Development
Note to my dear readers: As I write, I realize this series is growing. Thank you for your understanding in…
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 4: Sharing Agile Outside of Product Development
Here’s where we are so far in this discussion of what it might mean to “scale” agile approaches: Part 1: Creating…
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Balance Your Portfolio with the Product Portfolio Matrix
The product portfolio matrix is a handy tool that helps you make the right product portfolio decisions. This post explains…
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Zombies Are Muttering “Agile”, “DevOps”, “Containers”, “Big Data”, and “Microservices”
DevOps is the word of the year. Everyone speaks about it, and many are hoping to apply it, even though…
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 3: Creating Agile Product Development Capabilities
In the “Scaling” Agile: Part 1, I wrote about cross-functional collaborative teams. The cross-functional collaborative feature team is the basis…
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Agile at Scale – Outcome Driven (or Broken)
Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. You…
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