Leading Agile

MAY 12, 2020

Professions such as Medicine, Law, Beauty, Teaching, Transportation, Security, Accounting, Engineering, and Project Management all have one thing in common; certifications and internal governance. It takes more than a few Scrum teams to solve the Transformation puzzle. It involves more than just IT. It requires the entire organization.

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Transportation Cadence Engineering Agile 71

Leading Agile

MAY 3, 2023

And so if you show up and like you say, “Hey, I want to adopt Agile,” but you know, you’re not familiar with the strategies or Agile governance strategies or such, right? So, you think SAFE, Large-Scale Scrum maybe, although I don’t know that fits in that category, Scrum as a model, XP as a model, and things like that.

Agile 62

Agile Technical Review Governance Government 62

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

What do you do with planning cadences? But what they’re really doing was like scrum with technical practices and things like that, I ever more aligned, it felt like to me was Scrum. I mean, everybody’s like very familiar with Agile and Scrum and things like that but I wouldn’t call them agile coaches per se.

Agile 140

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Digite

JUNE 13, 2018

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. Anderson best articulated its application to software development, in 2013, in the foundational book Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business, and its adoption hasn’t been as universal as Scrum’s during the early days of Agile software development.

Agile 110

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Leading Agile

AUGUST 19, 2020

They did a great job of getting the message out Scrum and the Scrum certification did a great job of getting the message out. Does it mean that we start Doing Scrum, right? Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. What is a team?

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 21, 2021

And what that means to us is not just teaching people how to do agile or how to do kind of methodologies in this space like say for Scrum or what have you but really like how to create the kinds of organizations that really can do agile really well and really effectively at scale. They’re not thinking often about like team level Scrum.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

I wasn’t around when things like XP and Scrum were invented, but I have been lucky enough to spend time with many of the original signers of the Manifesto. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. The governance model?

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2020

You get super clear backlogs, you find out what the real cadences you’ve finished work that you start. And then tying that together into a network and then applying Lean principles to designing an organization that can get stuff done. How do you like fix it? Now it turns out the way you fix it, is you get to be aligned on value.

Agile 71

Agile Technical Review SCRUM Engineering 71

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So we start with culture, maybe we go to practices and then all those teaming strategies and dependencies and governance and metrics and all that stuff that we struggle with all the time will just kind of work itself out. So everybody here, probably a lot of our scrum masters are that way. So think about scrum.

Governance 62

Governance Government SCRUM Agile 62

Leading Agile

MARCH 17, 2021

And I was working for this VP that was like really super cool, is very into agile and we were coming up with really creative things for like team formation strategies and agile governance, all stuff. If you just do Scrum, you’ll get the goodness out of it. I don’t mean Scrum. It was just why agile fails.

2021 62

2021 Agile Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM 62

Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Zombie Scrum describes the impact on delivery teams. To prevent the Zombie Scrum or Delivery Trap phenomenon, our operational model keeps planning, execution, and tracking coordinated horizontally across dependent Delivery Teams and vertically through the Portfolio, Program, and Delivery levels. See this and this for more information.

Agile 115

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Audit: The process of analyzing a project to ensure that it is being governed as intended. Projects might additional calendars as well to show resource availability, communication cadence, etc. Lean : "Lean" is an approach towards project management that prioritizes minimizing waste and maximizing value.

Underperforming Technical Team 78

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Velociteach

MAY 10, 2023

More recently, the profession has grappled with two intertwined questions: Should principles or processes govern project management? Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps. Lean organizations achieve these goals through empowerment and incremental change. How could there be only one solution?

Lean 88

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. The most important skills for an agile coach include: Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Experience as a Scrum master or with the agile methodology. Scrum@Scale.

Agile 98

Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 98

Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? Scrum Events. There are plenty of opportunities for stakeholders to interact responsibly with a Scrum Team.

Technical Review 210

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Cadence 210

Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

The organizations start with few teams initially, and it is easier to follow simple & lightweight frameworks like Scrum or Kanban at this stage. The most important skills for an agile coach include: Strong understanding of Scrum and Kanban. Experience as a Scrum master or with the agile methodology. Scrum@Scale.

Agile 84

Agile Lean SCRUM Development Team Review 84