Dealing With Failure in Agile
One of the most difficult lessons that many organizations learn is that of failure. Mostly it means that we put whatever failed on the trash-heap of bad ideas and “never [...]
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Category: Agile Practices
When Is Project Management Okay?
I recently read a couple of articles over on TechBeacon about Project Management. The first article I read was a rebuttal of the second, so I had to spend some time catching up [...]
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Distributed Teams Revisited - Tips and Tri [...]
I’ve been working with distributed teams for a long time – about twenty years now. Some of those teams have been based in Europe, some in India, and some across the [...]
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Integrated or Independent Nearshore Teams
When a company looks at nearshoring (or offshoring, but I obviously recommend nearshore) they’re faced with the question of whether to integrate the nearshore teams into [...]
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Some Thoughts on SAFe
One of the main questions I get asked (probably because I have SPC as part of the “alphabet soup” that follows my name) is about SAFe, or the Scaled Agile Framework. [...]
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Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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Financing an Outsourced Software Development [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve spoken at conferences this year about creating a sustainable agile transformation. Our culture is often embedded in our policies [...]
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Creating A Sustainable Agile Transformation [...]
I’ve been speaking a lot this year at various conferences (Big Apple Scrum Day, Music City Agile, and Agile 2017 to name a few) about the need to engage our Human Resource [...]
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The Test-Driven Development (TDD) Mindset [...]
In my previous article, we explored the train of thoughts when designing a component using test-driven development (TDD) to convert money from USD to COP. In this second part [...]
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Making Working Agreements Work For You
I’m sometimes asked what practice or technique I would recommend for a team that’s struggling to meet commitments or has some kind of internal discontent. When I ask [...]
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