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Notes from the trenches on Agile, Lean, Kanban and the craft of leading teams that ship. Areté — the pursuit of excellence — is what this is all about.
Today the vast majority of people think Kanban looks like that picture on top, just some rows and columns of an unusual looking to-do list. And they would be mostly wrong, that’s literally the tip of the iceberg. Kanban, unlike Scrum deals with systems, large or small. But it thrives in large systems where many teams …
As many of you I am a bit shocked by the severity of the corona virus pandemic. I’ve been reading a lot on biotech, bioweapons and bioengineering. Enough to realize it’s certain this will happen again in our lifetime. I decided to write a few lessons to learn from this plague: Every nation must build a #pandemic …
Releasing software today has many options, they vary in risk profile, and in the way they are performed. In this article we will do a summary of the main options available today. This is a valuable tool chest to have in mind in your road to better releases, less risk, and more peace of mind, in short in your road to …
In my experience working with Scrum for over a decade, the main challenge with the Product Owner role that Scrum recommends is that the people who usually perform that role have limited understanding of software development, and have different measurements for their job success than the Development Team. For these …
Some who hear about Agile’s thoughts about self-managing teams often make the mistake to think that there is no discipline or structure in the several Agile Methods and frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban, but nothing could be further from the truth. Agility lies at the crossroads of both freedom and discipline. The …
Fake Deadlines are the biggest life sucking hole in the history of business. Fake Deadlines do not follow reason, they are illogical and capricious. Fake Deadlines waste the most valuable asset of a company: their people. Fake Deadlines are evil because they do not lead by inspiration, they lead by fear. Fake Deadlines …
To bring positive change to an organization it is vital to build a coalition, to carefully raise awareness about a better way to do things, and to do it in a way that respects management and the people in the organization. Japanese management has a unique practice that teaches us how to accomplish this, a practice that …
“Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.” Reed Hastings, Netflix In the last 3 years, Agile has leaped beyond Software Development & IT to find receptive ears in the offices of important CEOs and their management teams. This time unlike what happened in the early …
Agility is a higher concept than just Agile. One we should embrace more. When a business pursues #agility it opens wide avenues for improvement, not just through one framework or method, but an open-minded approach to get better, and never stop improving. Agility goes beyond technology, or Agile Transformations. It …
The philosophy behind Agile, Lean and Kanban can go beyond business projects or products to actually inspire our life, our dreams, and personal projects. Guided by this fact, and also by the writings of Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, I give you the 12 Commandments of Done, hoping they can inspire you to conquer your …
