In previous blogs I introduced the concept of antifragile with a focus on how antifragility helps us deal with risks during agile development. I also blogged about how having flexible scope makes us antifragile. In this post, I explain why limiting work in process (WiP)…
Most every week I am out training or coaching with one or two companies around the world. So, I am exposed to how many different companies are applying agile development – sometimes successfully, other times not so much.
Since my clients know that I visit many different…
I am frequently asked who should attend the various Scrum meetings—sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and product backlog grooming. My Essential Scrum book provides detailed answers to all of these questions. However, after numerous…
“We have to get it right before we start!” Sounds kind of waterfall-esque, doesn’t it? You’d think that the people saying this might be referring to getting their requirements right up front. But no! What they are referring to are the details of how they will apply agile…
This article is the third in a series about how organizational misalignments impede the adoption and successful use of agile through the enterprise value chain. In this blog posting, I address one of the most common issues that companies face: misunderstanding how to do
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In my blog post, “Agile Adoption across the Enterprise: Still in the Chasm,” I make the claim that agile adoption within…
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For years now I have been hearing that agile has crossed the chasm—that agile has made the leap from being a new and unproven idea to…
Every nonfunctional requirement you have is a candidate for inclusion in your definition of done. Let me explain why.
I’ll start by revisiting a few key terms and concepts. As you might recall, the result of each sprint should be a potentially…
Do you believe that agile can be applied to the development of non-software products? Well it can! Take Wikispeed, for instance, which builds a street-legal car every sprint. This one example alone should be enough to convince you that agile outside of software…
“Date, scope, and budget; choose any two!” I have heard that saying countless times—but it’s not precisely true.
It’s accurate to say that you can’t lock down all three variables on any interesting project/product-development effort and expect to succeed. Companies…