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Sunday, March 31, 2019

When not to scale Scrum

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Typically the first question I hear after a company decided that Scrum may be the way to go forward in their IT organization, the next quest...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Your Sprint Reviews suck, and that's why!

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Do you have the impression that your Sprint Reviews suck, that they are a waste of time?  Are you missing real users, are attendants squi...
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Sunday, March 24, 2019

The six-step agile transition coaching model

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What does a coach do - and how does a typical agile coaching engagement look like?  This is my personal model - it may also serve as a dis...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

You have to be crazy to hire consultants

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"You have to be crazy to hire consultants." - I repeat this sentence quite frequently after arriving at this conclusion almost a d...
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Coaching or Consulting?

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Draw your own conclusions.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Finding fertile soil for coaching

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There are hundreds of poorly written job offers for "Scrum Masters" or "Agile Coaches" out there - mostly because client...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Where the benefits of SAFe come from

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Are the advertised benefits of SAFe real?  The Scaled Agile Framework claims the following benefits of a Lean-Agile transformation: Bene...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Making sense of Agility

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"I know this doesn't make any sense, but ..." - aren't you all too familiar with this response towards questioning a spec...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

What does it mean to be agile?

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A few years back, I coined the phrase, "Creating understanding is more essential than offering solutions". It used to be my worki...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Top 3 success factors for agile transitions

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So... SAFe. Big picture, many elements. What's important and what's not? What's make or break for becoming an agile organization...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

The 5-minute Retrospective: Try Speedrospectives!

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Agility depends on receiving timely feedback and turning it into effective change action. Relentless improvement requires closing feedback c...
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Why organizations use Scream

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The Scream framework has struck a nerve. This parody of the Scrum framework isn't just loaded with antipatterns - hundreds of people ha...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Agile Fallacy

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"That's not Agile!" - does it matter? My claim - no! "Being Agile" isn't true/false - it's a spectrum from...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Can you afford to have an IT department?

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Many non-digital businesses augment their core business with digitization and automation. IT is "The Thing", and even though every...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

A brief history of IT

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Is your IT future-oriented?  The nature of IT is changing - if you aren't adapting, chances are that your IT is a liability rather than...