Scrum will help you fail in 30 days or less. — Ken Schwaber, c2001 I spent some time talking about risk and failure in my last post, noting the pathogenic fear of failure endemic at most waterfall development organizations. To a person conditioned to such an environment, the above quote probably appears nihilistic or dangerously [...]
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There’s a perception that agile is somehow academic – that it was cooked up as part of a PhD dissertation, or is the rarefied result of years of private funding and fevered intellectual inquiry by ivory-tower eggheads at some software equivalent of the Brookings Institution. Unfortunately for anyone subscribing to this misperception, the exact opposite [...]
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Over the past several years, I have listened to new clients talk about the challenges they face with their Agile adoptions. At some point in the conversation the client inevitably says something like, “You have to understand, our organization is unique.” The irony is that the phrase is usually followed by a description of an [...]
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In my last few Agile Basics classes, I have noticed a welcome trend: People with roles outside of IT are attending classes in conjunction with the development teams. People from sales, marketing, accounting, HR and even executive branches have started to recognize that learning about Agile has a positive impact on the whole organization. Agilists [...]
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On March 5th, I presented the webinar, “Building a Better Backlog: Strategies for Long Term Success in Agile Development.” In the session, I shared strategies on how to build and maintain a good product backlog by describing the overall concepts and techniques for backlog management and how each of the project contributors can contribute to [...]
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The Wall Street Journal recently published a piece on the Agile practice of daily stand-up (or daily Scrum) meetings and specifically the fact that Agile encourages standing up during stand-up meetings. While I’m impressed and amused that the author managed to fill several paragraphs discussing standing up in stand-up meetings, the fact that the Wall [...]
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