“Cash Can’t Code!” A colleague of mine (Chris Conrad) once told me this. The context of our discussion was about leveraging more resources to complete a large book of work by the end of the year. His main point is clear, having money to throw at the problem wasn’t going…
As an agile coach I work with many companies and the terms “cross-functional” and “T-Shaped” get tossed about quite a bit. Do they mean the same thing? Certainly, many people use them synonymously.
To avoid confusion when organizing agile teams and larger agile…
In the first article in this Dependency Series, I discussed how shared dependencies are a critical factor that impact success when attempting agile at scale. In this second article I discuss the economic consequences of dependencies.
This article is the first in a series on the topic of dependencies and how to deal with them to achieve successful outcomes when utilizing agile at scale. In this short article I will define what I mean by dependencies and emphasize that shared dependencies are the ones…