Agile & Risk Management: Managing Risk Via the Product Backlog
This blog is the fifth in a series about agile and risk management. The first four blogs are:
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Agile & Risk Management: The Role of Traditional Risk Management
This blog is the fourth in a series about agile and risk management. The first three blogs are:
- “Three Key Agile Risk Management Activities”
- “Agile & Risk Management: The Mental Model of Uncertainty”
- “Agile & Risk Management: Antifragile”
In this blog I discuss…
The Anatomy of a Keynote Speech
I get a lot of questions about speaking, including how I prepare, how I engage the audience, and so on. For example, in May 2014 I gave the opening keynote presentation at the Global Scrum Gathering in New Orleans. Immediately after I completed my speech (and…
Agile & Risk Management: Antifragile
This blog is the third in a series about agile and risk management. The other blogs are:
- “Three Key Agile Risk Management Activities”
- “Agile and Risk Management: The Mental Model of Uncertainty”
What is Antifragility?
In this blog I introduce the concept of…
Agile & Risk Management: The Mental Model of Uncertainty
This blog is the second in a series about agile and risk management. (See the introductory blog, “Three Key Agile Risk Management Activities”). In this blog I introduce a mental model of uncertain events that I will use in the subsequent blogs.
Agile Risk Management &…
Three Key Agile Risk Management Activities
We all know that software development is risky. We’re creating something new, with an uncertain set of requirements, in an often-tight timeframe. On top of that, we have to worry about unknown dependencies, sudden market changes, and personnel shifts!
It’s no wonder…
Distinguishing Between Feature & Component Teams
In my training classes we frequently discuss scaling agile with feature teams versus component teams. To help distinguish between the two types of teams it is important to consider the nature of the product backlog items that you might typically see in the product…
Economically Sensible Scrum Visualized: An overview of the latest addition to the Visual AGILExicon®
I’ve witnessed many teams perform excellent Scrum, from sprint planning through retrospectives, yet their organizations still don’t get the business results they need or expect. Why? Because they fail to perform something I call Economically Sensible Scrum. Economically…
Make Better Decisions with Economically Sensible Scrum
Even if all of your teams perform Scrum or any Agile process exactly right, in a textbook-like fashion, you might not achieve your organization’s goals for adopting Agile. Why? In most cases, when organizations fail, it is because they did not apply core Agile…
Sprint Backlog – An Artifact for Acquiring Confidence
The goal of sprint planning is to determine the most important subset of ready product backlog items to build in the next sprint. During sprint planning the Scrum team agrees on a goal for the sprint, and the development team determines the specific product backlog items…