Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
Building High Performing Teams at Scale
Strong stable teams increase focus on the right things for their customers, improve productivity & predictability, and create much happier team members.
Industry News & Analysis
What I Want for an Agile Christmas
My family should know me better than anyone. But since dropping hints doesn’t work with them, I’m going to assume it won’t work with others either. So on behalf of team members everywhere, I’m going to tell Scrum Masters, product owners, and managers a couple of things I’d like for Christmas. And I’ll be more explicit than dropping subtle hints. The last thing I need is more socks!
The Most Important Agile Trends to Follow in 2020
The Agile concept has come a long way over the past several years, taking its place as a firmly established set of software development methodologies. Yet Agile continues to evolve and mature, as experience leads to improvements, refinements, and new uses.
The Latest from Retrium
ARE YOUR RETROSPECTIVES PLAGUED BY GROUPTHINK?
A retrospective where no one speaks is about as useful as an NBA playoff game where no one plays. Yep, it’s that useless. Just a room full of silence and stares, as if the facilitator is speaking a foreign language.
Tips & Tricks
The Secret Sauce within Agile Frameworks: The Teams
In today’s age of Agile, there are several scaling methodologies and frameworks for an organization to choose from for their Agile transformation. These would include the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum at Scale, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), and so on. While these are proven tools and many organizations have been successfully implemented them, the reality is that people are the heart of any transformation and are the best investment any organization can make. Regardless if a framework has been chosen, Agile teams are the “secret sauce” and where the real value is generated for an organization. Agile teams should be highly invested in and empowered to drive change and innovation.
Technical Agility
Advantages of Test First over Test After by GeePaw Hill
Sitting here again in the snowy Alps next to the mountains with a warm fire beside me. Finally, I have the chance to read a great thread from GeePaw Hill on Twitter I’ve noticed a view hours ago while working.
Agile Outside of IT
Account Growth: Why the Account Manager Matters
In a volatile economy, global organizations are under mounting pressure to find sustainable topline growth. Leaders have worked tirelessly to secure an edge. They have done mergers, made acquisitions and are now chasing agility. None of that guarantees consistent organic growth, though.
Business Agility
2020 Is the Decade of Culture-First Organizations
I’m not a big fan of end-of-the-year predictions. However, I couldn’t help but celebrate when I read that Glassdoor anticipates that 2020 will begin a culture-first decade for organizations everywhere. Considering its proprietary data, including millions of company reviews, it makes a lot of sense.
How Agile Procurement Accelerates Application Development - RTInsights
Excessive lead times in procurement cycles can impact company goals and slow the adoption of innovative applications that can improve customer journeys.
Agile at Scale
Agile Workspaces – Scaled Agile Framework
Adopting Lean and Agile practices across the Enterprise greatly benefits from a for teams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) that supports these new ways of working. Experience and research have also shown that effective workspaces are one of the keys to high team productivity. Further, the environment must positively reinforce the cultural changes while amplifying the focus on face-to-face communication and information transparency.
In Case You Missed It
How Fake Agile At DoD Risks National Security
As Agile is increasingly seen as the standard way to manage work in the 21st Century, we are seeing more and more “Agile in name only” or “fake Agile”. The government is no different. The Department of Defense (DoD) has even issued a guide, “Detecting Agile BS” to help identify and drive out rampant fake Agile. What is at stake is significant: at a time when cyber warfare, both offensive and defensive, has become at least as important as physical fighting, rapid development of effective software at DoD has become a key ingredient in national security.