Agile
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You’re Doing It Wrong: Deadlines
We know that deadlines drive behavior. That’s why in scrum, and other agile methodologies, we timebox the development with those…
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How to Manage a Manager?
No secret, we you all have managers. Some of them are great, while many are simply idiots. What do you do if…
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Creating Milestones with Iteration-Based Agile
I’ve been coaching several teams with a problem: they like to work in iterations. And, they have milestones that are…
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Possibilities for Managing Individual and Team Compensation
There’s a twitter conversation about how to manage team compensation. How can we pay people what they are worth and compensate…
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 6: Creating the Agile Organization
We might start to think about agile approaches as a project change. However, if you want to “scale” agile, the…
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4 Daily Scrum Tips for Product Owners & Product Managers
The Daily Scrum meeting is a common meeting for agile teams. But I still find that some product managers and…
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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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