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Can scrum and agility be scaled and what’s the best way to do it?

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received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? I have great respect for the people who are acting in product owner roles, but let’s say you’re a product owner on one team and the highest value item that’s in your team that you’re working on is 3 million US dollars.

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Risk-aware Product Development (a.k.a. Scrum)

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"There's no predictability/commitment in Agile/Scrum". Over the years I've heard my share of these kinds of statements from various levels of executives: "When my guys run a product development release I really want to know what I will get at the end so I can make business plans accordingly". "In Back to the roots.

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The Illusion of Velocity

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TL; DR: The Illusion of Velocity In this article, I explore the pitfalls of ‘The Illusion of Velocity’ in agile contexts, peeling back the layers of traditional metrics as leadership tools. Moreover, I point to the advantages gained from leadership engaging directly with teams.

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Velocity Illusionen ??

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Außerdem weise ich auf die Vorteile hin, die sich aus der direkten Zusammenarbeit zwischen Führungskräften und Teams ergeben. Exclusively on my Substack Newsletter: Developer Anti-Patterns — An Excerpt from the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide (3). ? Preorder the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide book now for delivery in January 2024! ?️

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Systems Thinking in Organizational Coaching

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It is located in the neocortex and developed relatively recently. Systems thinking is a language and set of tools meant to illuminate our thinking about how the systems we are all part of actually operate (David Peter Stroh, Systems Thinking for Social Change, 2015). A software development effort is always a system!

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Risk Management Resources

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. 4, February 24, 2015. 255, April 2010.