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In any large organization, and that includes businesses and government, the people who run that organization constitutes their Bureaucracy. Inside every Bureaucracy you will find two kinds of people: Some people who are actually devoted to the mission of the organization and that is to serve customers who need their …
In the last five years SAFe or the Scaled Agile Framework has experienced tremendous growth and adoption at large organizations. The evidence is not just in surveys, such as the large one conducted by Digital AI which I share below, but also by simple word of mouth that confirms many large organizations are adopting …
Over 10 years ago, a lifetime for the technology world, Henrik Kniberg, famous for the Spotify Model, and his brilliant videos for Product Owners gave us a guide for Kanban teams that do software development. A few years later Yuval Yeret did his own revision to Henrik’s guide but focused this time on Marketing. Both …
On occasion as professionals we observe what seems to be irrational behavior, something that seems to defy logic. After years of seeing this “irrational” behavior in managers, co-workers and consultants I realized it is usually not irrational, just hard to comprehend. Most decisions people make involve a complex array …
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 …
As a developer and project manager I always wondered why Scrum has so many rules, detailed processes but still calls itself Agile. Sure many of the ideas from Extreme Programming, another Agile method, are sound and programmer friendly, but they also represent a long list of practices to follow. This is evident by …
One key concept to grasp in any form of goal setting, project management, or actual effort in life is that we should strive to never do more than needed, but have a goal of simple elegance. We must realize that More is Less. Perhaps one of the best ways to illustrate this principle, it to quote Seth Godin with some …
