Invest in your Product Owner
Why the Product Owner is often the most underinvested role in Scrum, and why getting stories to READY-READY is a business investment, not a process step.
Read more →Insights
Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership: written from 15+ years in the field.
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Iterate / Inspect and Adapt – nice in theory…
Iterate, inspect, and adapt sounds easy in the classroom: a look at the real-world blockers that keep teams from closing the learning loop.
Read more →The cost of iterations applied to Kanban as well…
The overhead of iterations doesn't disappear with Kanban: it shifts from fixed-cadence overhead to on-demand transaction cost you can optimize differently.
Read more →Agile antipattern: code freezes every iteration
Code freezes during iterations are a classic agile antipattern: signaling that testing is not integrated enough into the flow of development.
Read more →agileblog 06/04/2009
Curated links on lean pull-based design, BDD, and the Kanban metaphor: exploring how flow thinking integrates with agile development practices.
Read more →Its hard to embrace change…
Embracing change is a core agile value, but people and organizations resist by default. Why change management isn't optional in agile transformations.
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