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What works will remain, the rest will be gone. Agile is dying, and becoming much less relevant. There are only two paths ahead for Agile to diminish even more until it becomes irrelevant or to finally change to survive by focusing on delivering value and not dogma. I do hope Agile adapts because despite all the valid …
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 …
Scrum is the undisputed leader among all Agile approaches today, survey after survey confirms that it is the leading choice for organizations that want to improve their efficiency, and speed their time to market. However, despite their success Scrum still continues to revise and improve their own framework, their …
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 …
“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 …
Less noise, less “information”, leads to less stress and that equals more peace. Image Credits: here. Which is actually one of the main principles of Kanban: Limit Work in Progress. It also relates to something I call Holistic Kanban or HKanban you can learn more about it here: </2010/12/23/hkanban/>
“In business and in life: the lighter we are the higher we get.” ~ Miguel Gómez Arbocco, a good friend. Lean is a whole way of thinking that fundamentally tells us: keep the most valuable, discard the rest. Because the rest is weight, is useless inventory, that drags you down, and makes everything harder. When you go …
