August 16, 2022
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A Nudge for Your Agile Implementation
Has your Agile implementation plateaued — despite improvement efforts?
If so, it might need a nudge.
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April 12, 2021
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Agility Takes More than Practices
Your organization has an Agile way of working. Your previous company probably did too, but theirs was different. And the popular Agile frameworks? They don’t all agree either.
March 13, 2021
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Who Makes Decisions Around Here?
In many Product Development organizations, who-decides-what about the product is hazy, inconsistent, or not fully defined. This limits the ability to deliver good value reliably.
June 1, 2020
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Effective Senior Management: a One-Minute Summary
A CEO asked me: “I can see how the teams and the product lines will operate with an Agile mindset, but at my level, how do I manage differently? How do I work with the other executives?”
Here is my quick (“elevator pitch”) summary:
May 31, 2020
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Do you have Waterfall in Agile clothing?
And… how would you tell? Here is a recent story from Gil.
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April 20, 2020
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Going Agile: Not with “Ceremonies” and “Rituals”
Imagine you’ve been asked to join another Agile team. The person in charge meets you and during the introductory conversation, says “Mondays, we have the planning ceremony at 10. The other main ceremonies are on Friday afternoons…”
Rewind to where the person said “ceremony.” Did you feel excited? curious? nervous? unenthusiastic?
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April 17, 2020
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Practice Does not Make Perfect: Why Agile Transformations Fail (50-min video)
Almost every organization is now showing interest in Agile. We seem to have all the ingredients for effective transformations: well-known practices, detailed processes, ever-improving tools, extensive literature, myriad certifications, and many consultants. How is it, then, that so few organizations are truly agile?READ MORE
April 15, 2020
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What Can Management Do to Support Agile?
Everyone who tries to adopt Agile in their organization quickly realizes that the change extends beyond the team, project/program, and value stream. It affects management too. But how? More specifically, what should managers focus on to support the change to Agile?
March 18, 2020
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Does your daily standup matter?
Try this sometime:
Survey your team members anonymously: “What’s the purpose of our daily standup?” (or daily Scrum, whatever you call it).
You might be surprised by the number of materially different answers you’ll get.
And then, you should be concerned over how many of those answers include words such as “updates” or “status.”
March 16, 2020
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Is your work-from-home team really being a team?
It’s been two years since everyone started working from home. How has that affected your team?
Most people I talk to tell me their teams are fine, but are they missing something?READ MORE