How Lean Is Your Backlog?
One of the core principles of Lean is to eliminate waste. For those of us working in Agile, it’s important …
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Agile: Not a Magic Pill
No one on software teams believes in waterfall any longer. That’s what The 2013 Study of Product Team Performance revealed. …
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The most convincing reason to change from waterfall to agile
Given virtually no one on product teams believes in waterfall – even those using waterfall (see my last post on …
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No One Believes in Waterfall
The most startling result coming out of this year’s just-released Study of Product Team Performance came in response to two …
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Dance of Change
In the Dance of Change by Senge, et. al., the authors present five disciplines for individuals and teams to study …
Colleges: Teach the “How”!
We’re at an inflection point. Agile practices transitioned over the last couple years from “emerging” to “predominant”. Companies are sampling …
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Why should we be Agile or Lean?
There is a lot of skepticism about Agile and Lean among business managers for a lot of good reasons. It’s best that we understand these reasons, because they shouldn’t keep us from proceeding with Agile and Lean transformations of our companies and projects.