Leading Agile

APRIL 7, 2023

As a community, we have developed a handful of team-based Agile approaches over the years; some of which we would consider scaled. 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. But here we are. Why is it so difficult?

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Planio

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Have you ever had one of those bad dreams where you keep making the same mistake over and over again? Now, what if that dream became your team’s reality? If you feel like your team keeps making the same mistakes over and over, they probably are. Agile teams made retrospectives popular, but they work for any team.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 16, 2022

Larkland is participating in the panel on Agile at Large Organizations at IIL’s 2022 Agile & Scrum Online Conference. SAFe’s e-book Agile at Scale: Making the Case for Business Agility describes an organization that’s achieved business agility as behaving more like a living organism than a machine.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

More often than not in kind of either the IT product development space or IT services space. We like to consider ourselves kind of a full stack consultancy in the sense that you know, obviously, you have to deal with the work surface levels and what the teams are doing but you know, how do you orchestrate teams across dependency boundaries?

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? Stable Team. Dedicated Team. Team Spaces. Survival is the best the teams can hope for. What has changed?

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MPUG

MAY 18, 2022

Melanie here with team MPUG. Thus, I’ll share her contact and the book we’ll be discussing today in our survey email, following the event. He has 30 years as a new product development project management professional. He co-authored with me the Agile chapter of the Step by Step book. Melanie: Hello.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2023

In fact, at conferences, we often talk about how managers are bad and executives are foolish people who want to derail the company. Old ways of working won’t solve it, and simply implementing practices like Scrum, DevOps, FinOps, or ProOps are not sufficient to create the organizations we need for the changes we must make.

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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. And this was like way before the days Dean Leffingwell hadn’t even written his first book on scaling. You guys remember them?

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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 so like in some of the early I think it was maybe it was Merrifield book rework or maybe it came from your HBR article I can’t remember. How do you like fix it? – Yeah. – Mm hmm. – Yeah.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Strategy (#Strategy).

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PM That Works

MAY 9, 2020

I had a chance to join a mastermind with several of the john Maxwell team members. In short, his mission is to help teams and organizations become better, better in the sense of increased teamwork, increased flow, increased learning and increased passion about their mission. Now, there's a dozen or more for most of these.

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