Agile at Scale
Start With A Pilot Agile Team
You've read a couple of Agile books, drawn in by the idea that you can double output in half the time, and decide it is time to bring some of this magic to your own organization.
Business Agility
5 Strategies to Keep Your Business Ahead of Fast-Moving Competitors and Fickle Customers
As a business and entrepreneur adviser, I have no trouble getting owners and managers to agree that change is happening faster and faster in the consumer and technology world, requiring them to keep their businesses more agile just to keep up.
Elevate Agile: The Business Value of Agility w/ Marty Bradley | LeadingAgile
At ElevateAgile, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant, Marty Bradley, led a session called “The Business Value of Agility.” The talk focused on the question of how organizations measure and understand the business benefits of adopting an Agile approach. All too often, organizations make a decision to “go agile” without defining the outcome they hope/want/expect from changing their approach to work. Without a solid understanding of the impact you are seeking, deciding whether your approach to creating things, or the things themselves, are delivering desired business value.
Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Daily Scrums: 10 Ways to Improve Your Standups
In a recent weekly tip email to subscribers, I offered six ways teams could make their daily scrums more useful. (If you aren't subscribing to those, here's how.) But I had such a hard time limiting myself to six that I thought I'd share a few more here. With that in mind, here are ten tips for improving your daily scrum meetings.
Free card deck for 50 Quick Ideas to Improve User Stories
If you liked the Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your User Stories book, but have trouble juggling all fifty ideas in your head, get them as a convenient reference card deck. It’s now available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, so you can print the cards yourself, adapt them, and even use for commercial work.
Industry News & Analysis
Slack And Zoom Have Proven That The Future Of Work Is Agile
It’s unsurprising for Google, Facebook, and Uber to be household names, but when enterprise software makes it into the mainstream, you know that change is afloat. Yet, go to any office, and you’ll hear people talking about “Slacking” over information or “Zooming” into meetings. Similarly, just a few years ago it would have been hard to imagine an enterprise software company being well known enough to make a direct listing viable. Yet, Slack direct listed onto the NYSE successfully, and other high-growth enterprise companies are considering following suit.
Agile Outside of IT
How Brands Can Stay Relevant With Agile Branding
Brands are in an on-going battle to stay relevant. While staying consistent and adhering to core values remain important for brand integrity, brands must also be agile and adaptive to succeed in today’s digital landscape.
How to Use Agile to Deliver Customer Success
It’s no secret that Agile has been put to great use by your product and engineering teams. It’s a tried and true methodology; but did you know that it can also be used to deliver an amazing Customer Success strategy?
In Case You Missed It
Why developers consider Agile development to be nonsense
Agile means many things to many people. The simple high level Agile Manifesto is something I think is close to the way Google engineers think about software development.
Here is how UX Design Integrates with Agile and Scrum
Despite having co-written an award-winning book on the topic and lecturing, teaching and coaching on the topic for nearly 10 years now, I still get many questions — mostly from product managers, executive leaders, and technical managers — on how to integrate UX and Design into the scrum process. It’s a challenge that continues to plague most organisations mainly because the reason scrum was brought in was not to do more thoughtful, customer-centric work but rather to ship more code faster.