This is part one in a series of blog posts derived from a one-hour Q&A session I had with University of Alabama students who were using my Essential Scrum book as the core of their course curriculum.
One of the things I’m most proud of is that my book, Essential Scrum,…
We’ve all experienced projects that, despite our best efforts, delivered late, weren’t up to our quality standards, and didn’t quite meet our customer’s needs. Failed projects not only negatively impact the bottom line, they also can damage reputations and crush morale.…
After years of training it is clear to me that many people do much better with pictures than they do with text. I myself am a visual learner, which is why in my presentations I shun bullet points in favor of graphics that help most people understand and retain the…
One of the core principles of agile is to inspect and adapt. The daily scrum is one of three critical inspect-and-adapt activities defined in the Scrum framework.
As you can see in the picture, the daily scrum happens (everyday) during sprint execution – after sprint…
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…