New to agile? Tools for distributed agile
I’ve been working the past several weeks with some highly distributed teams. Each team requires a way to track their project effectively (when you have…
Category: Management
Never start a sentence “We can’t be agile because…”
I recently started filling out a form which included a question regarding the training I’ve done. As I filled it out I realized that in…
Agile antipattern: Moving work from one iteration to the next
All agile teams start at something less than the completely proficient level. Nearly all of those teams do not successfully complete their very first iteration. …
New to Agile? Beware of the elephant in the room!
Like many other agile consultants I am often asked how agile adoptions could fail. This question has a myriad of answers. A search on Google…
Agile antipattern: But the development lead said it would take way less time than that
I’d be rich if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this, or something very similar to it, in the past 30 years! Alright,…
Be Agile to Become More Agile!
I often get the question “How do we get better at agile?” I imagine a lot of agile consultants get this particular question because the answer is…
Panel Discussion on Transitioning to Agile
Just a quick post this week. I just received a link to the panel discussion I was part of at the Agile Development Practices conference…
Changing the perception of “manager”
In agile it is often counterproductive to use the title of “manager” for any role. Manager tends to imply command and control which is just…