Are we being agile if we have stabilisation sprints?
Did you ever play Jenga? It’s a challenging game of dexterity, patience, and brinkmanship — you start with a tower […]
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Sizing defects: a measure of quality, failure, or distraction
How do you handle defects in your agile environment? Do you just work on them as you can; do you have a formal Kanban pull system; or do you size them alongside other work?
agile
Estimating on agile projects: what’s the story, what’s the point?
This article (first published on infoQ) explores why estimating is useful, why we use story points (and what they are), and the latest discussions around #NoEstimates.
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Launching Sophorum for agile and lean leadership
Announcing the launch of Sophorum, a business agility service for business analysis, coaching, team leading, new product development, business design, education, etc.
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Sandals or gourds? Get a grip!
Fed up with the recent negativity around agile methodologies? Between Enterprise Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework? This is my take.
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Keeping pace – a layered approach to achieving agility
At last it has a name. Gartner’s pace-layered application strategy framework provides a model that allows waterfall and agile practices to live side-by-side.
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Time and Relative Dimensions in Scoping – TARDIS
Ever had issues defining scope, or struggled with the problems that arise when scope changes? This article explores scope in four dimensions, and how we can cope better.
agile, governance
Fifty shades of governance
This talk, which followed my article ‘Bringing sexy back to governance‘, was presented at the 2012 BA Development Day conference, and covers what we mean by governance,
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Bringing sexy back to governance
Have you had enough of bloated, slow-moving, toothless governance processes that cost more than the value they add and impede flow of good projects without intervening on bad projects? In this article, I talk about how it should be different and float the ideas that should lead to a leaner governance more fit for the 21st century.