Agile
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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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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 2: Program Management for Product Development
The first post was about scaling functions to working as collaborative agile teams. See Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 1: Creating Cross-Functional…
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 1: Creating Cross-Functional Feature Teams
I keep encountering confusion about what scaling agile is. I’m writing what I think is a 4-part series to define…
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Sprint Cadence at scale
A system called ‘Scrum’ Scrum is founded on empirical process theory. Scrum implements regular inspections and adaptations in a closed-loop…
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Why do devs hate Agile?
Someone asked me this the other day: “Why do devs hate agile?” and as I worked through my answer I…
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Clinic: Product Owner/Manager question
An old product manager friend writes…. “Just started a new gig as senior product manager at blah blah blah Discovering…
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Heavy lifting is the easy bit
If you want to annoy me say something like “Building software should be like building a house…”. To say I’m…
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