Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 1
There was a fascinating Twitter conversation last week when I was busy writing other things. (I also find Twitter to be a difficult-for-me arena to have a conversation. I need more than 140...
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In Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 1, I wrote about circumstances under which a team might want a coach. It wasn't an exhaustive list. It had several questions defining when coaches...
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I started this series writing about the need for coaches in Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 1. I continued in Coaches, Managers, Collaboration and Agile, Part 2, talking about the...
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Thinking About Cadence vs. Iterations
Many people use an iteration approach to agile. They decide on an iteration duration, commit to work for that iteration and by definition, they are done at the end of the timebox. I like timeboxing...
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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 it so we all talk about the same thing. When I ask people to define what they mean by...
View ArticleThinking 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 to absolve such employees from helping others I retweeted it and...
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Project Work vs Product Work
We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. When we work on...
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Three Ways to Manage “Extra” Work in an Iteration
Many of my clients use an iteration-based agile approach. And, they have these problems: They “push” too much into an iteration. They use velocity, not cycle time to estimate. They rarely finish...
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Agile Approaches Can’t Save Impossible Projects: Fixed Cost, Scope, Date
You've got an impossible project. You have no flexibility. The project is a fixed-price, fixed-scope, fixed-date project. And, you have a specific team to do the work. (There are other impossible...
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Want a Successful Agile Project? Start with Why Before How
I've been speaking with several possible clients. They're having trouble with Scrum. The managers don't believe the teams need product owners, so the teams don't have POs. The managers think a Scrum...
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