Agile at Scale
Design Leadership: The X Factor in Digital Transformation
Abstract: Customer experience is king. Companies that separate from the pack are the ones that use real-time insight and user-centric design to delight their audience. But just how important is “good” design practice to creating a premium customer experience?
Tips & Tricks
Create & Manage the Project's Bounds, Part 1
Do you know your project's bounds? Do you know what your sponsors want from your project?
For many years, I heard about the “iron triangle.” Sometimes, the triangle was “Scope, Quality, Cost.” Sometimes, it was “Scope, Date, Cost.” It was always three things out of a minimum of four possibilities.
The Latest from Retrium
How to Build Trust Outside of Your Retrospectives
Trust is important — trust us.
In everyday life, we trust complete strangers to hold up their end of the deal, such as...
✈️ Pilots — to get us safely from point A to point B. 💸 Bank personnel — to not steal our financial information. 🏠 Construction companies — to build sturdy homes for our families.
Business Agility
These Three Approaches Will Help Your Enterprise Be More Agile
Nearly every organization that tries to change its culture to be more agile and better adapt to changing environments discovers that it’s harder than it looks. Agile transformation can’t be superficial or only embraced by the IT department–it needs to be completely pervasive throughout the business.
Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Make your retrospective facilitation even more effective? Here's 4 things to look at
In this post I refer to retrospectives as a type of meeting inspired by the 12th agile principle “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.”
Agile teams wish their leaders knew these 5 truths
Many companies turn to agile approaches to gain a competitive advantage, only to see leaders inadvertently get in the way. In my work with agile teams in companies of various sizes and industries, I’ve seen leaders create friction when optimizing interactions, systems, processes, and tools to deliver value.
Industry News & Analysis
How Software Developers Sparked Management Transformation
In the week that Google’s parent, Alphabet, joined Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, as the fourth of the world’s firms with a trillion-dollar market valuation, it is timely to note how rapidly and massively our world has been transformed.
Technical Agility
Technical Debt Is like a Tetris Game
Technical debt, legacy code… if you’re a professional software developer you must have come across those terms, and even across some code that embodies them.
Agile Outside of IT
Five ways Agile ways of working can improve your personal life
I have found the benefits of Agile practices and methodologies don’t just translate to the office, they can extend to your personal life and can help improve your mindset and approach to life.
The Complete Guide to Agile Branding
Agile branding is the art of quickly creating and improving your brand positioning so you can iterate and improve your marketing. When you're starting out on a new venture you may feel the need to map out every step of your go to market strategy in advance. Normal project planning would tell you that a detailed roadmap is a great way to execute a large project. But when it comes to branding and marketing, you are in a constant dance with your customer. And we all know that dancing can be chaotic. There is real value in taking a more iterative and agile approach to building your brand.
In Case You Missed It
Is Agile the Enemy (of Good Design)?
To have this discussion, we need to first talk about Integration. Integration is an act or instance of combining into an integral whole. Frequent integration helps humans solve problems more effectively.