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Let’s be honest: Agile can sometimes feel like the mean girl who’s there simply to ruin your life.
For some, Agile comes naturally. For others, it’s a struggle.
Those wh…
Heidi Musser
As a senior Executive, I have spent over 30 years leading and advising businesses on designing new operating & engagement models to drive digital transformation and achieve operational excellence and enterprise agility. My passion is 'managing the soft side of technology'© – through the adoption of fundamentally different ways of working, thinking and being. I am recognized by industry peers for my contributions and thought leadership on the topics of enterprise agility, design thinking, and diversity. I recently delivered my first TED Talk at TEDxSanAntonio on ‘agile is change’. I have been a member of the Agile Alliance’s Supporting Agile Adoption Program since 2014. Additionally, I Co-Chaired the Agile Alliance's Agile Executive Forum in 2013 and 2014. I am currently an Executive Management Consultant, advising C-level executives in Fortune 50 global organizations in resolving complex problems that prevent meaningful change so that executives can deliver rapid, visible, and sustainable improvement in business performance.
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This Agile case study is drawn from the experience report "Keeping schedule while negotiating content on a scale" written by Maarit Laanti.
The year was 2005, and Noki…
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This Agile case study is drawn from the experience report "Connecting the Dots of Knowledge in Agile Software Development" written by Raquel Ouriques, Daniel Mendez, Tony Gors…
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In today's competitive job market, standing out is essential. At Agile Alliance, we're dedicated to providing you with the tools and connections you need to advance your caree…
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This Agile success story is drawn from Dr Caroline Ng'weno's and Gladys Ng'weno's experience report, “Agile in The Wild: Sustainability by Adopting XP Values in Wildlife Conse…
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At Agile Alliance, we believe that Agile is for everyone, and we’ve made changes to our membership offerings to ensure that anyone interested in Agile can join us and be part …
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This Agile success story is drawn from Adam Parker's experience report, "No Estimates at Scale in the US Federal Government."
The stakes were high. The team was tasked …
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The following post is from Agile2024 sponsor ICAgile. See our partnership opportunities here.
Conflict resolution, when carried out effectively, can enhance collab…
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In today’s fast-paced world, efficiency isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s essential. You’ve probably noticed how workplaces are under increasing pressure to deliver more, faster.…
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The following post is from Agile2024 Title Sponsor Simply Agile. See our partnership opportunities here.
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go …
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And just like that, Agile2024 and The European Experience are a wrap.
It was an amazing week for the Agile community! Even with an international travel disruption, wh…
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The following post is from Agile2024 Title Sponsor Miro. See our partnership opportunities here.
The Agile Manifesto’s focus on collaboration and flexibility …
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Many organizations face a significant challenge when they commit to delivering products by specific deadlines. These commitments, made to customers, shareholders, the press, g…
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A new online source for Agile information, knowledge, learning, tools, and more!
Agile Alliance is excited to share that we’ve formed a new strategic alliance with The Agil…
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The following post is from our official annual partner, Lucid. See our partnership opportunities here.
The workplace looks very different than it did in 2001 …
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This year, we are taking a more mindful approach to supporting our attendees at Agile2024 who either align more on the introverted side, get overstimulated when the lights or …
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The following post is from our official annual partner, Lucid. See our partnership opportunities here.
Hybrid and remote work are more common than ever, fundamentally chang…
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In my last assignment as an Agile Coach, I coached Scrum masters. In addition to leading the transformation and actively contributing to the Scrum master chapter, this meant t…
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Caring Leadership® is the cornerstone of Agile organizational success, fostering a culture of empathy, collaboration, and innovation. In today's fast-paced business landscape,…
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In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, companies are constantly challenged to adapt quickly to changes in market dynamics, customer preferences, and technological adv…
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The Reimagining Agile workshop at JAFAC was a remarkable event where the New Zealand Agile community came together to discuss, problem-solve, and envision the future of Agile.…
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The following success story is based on Erik De Bos's Experience Report, Assisting Agile Teams to Reach Quality Goals. See all the Experience Reports here.
Imagine this: yo…
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Welcome to Agile Alliance, where we not only embrace change and continuous improvement in software development and Business Agility but also foster a thriving community of pro…
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The Agile2024 conference brings Agile communities together annually to share experiences and make new connections. If you've never attended or haven't been in a few years, we …
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A long time ago, in a country far, far away, or at least far away from us as we write this, the Agile Alliance board decided to ask themselves two questions:
Why do we exi…
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In a world seeking sustainability heroes, the Agile Sustainability Initiative emerges as a beacon of hope. At the helm of this voyage is Ines Garcia, a visionary Agile Coach h…
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This post was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become more Agil…
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In the ever-evolving world of Agile approaches, where adaptability and effectiveness converge, there exists a beacon of ethical guidance — thanks to the spirited efforts of in…
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I had a conversation with one of my developers earlier this week that was eye-opening. He had been resisting some of our practices, specifically pairing and test-driven develo…
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The Agile Coach Camp Worldwide Initiative (ACC-WW) is beginning its 2024 worldwide tour in Costa Rica!
As an experiment to increase participation from countries with devel…
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Agile Alliance is pleased to announce our Call for Nominations for Agile Alliance Board of Directors term of 2025-2027. Nominations are due by April 11, 2024. Anyone intereste…
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We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Agile Alliance Young Professionals Committee! This committee, which will be chaired by Semira Allen, was approved by the Board of…
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Agile Alliance New Zealand (AANZ) is a volunteer-run not-for-profit society founded in 2016 by 17 passionate Agility enthusiasts and incorporated under New Zealand law as an a…
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The Agile Sustainability Initiative, aiming continuously to improve the State of Sustainability in Agile (SoSA), invited participants to a Digital Cleanup Gathering on March 1…
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Transitioning from a traditional project manager to a Scrum master was an exciting and transformative journey for me. It was a shift in mindset, approach, and leadership style…
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Hi, everyone. I’m Brian Button, Board chair for Agile Alliance. We’re deeply into our conference season, with the acceptances and rejection notes for sessions just having come…
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Agile may look like a simple concept, but it can be a difficult mindset to adopt.
Agile product development is essentially an iterative and incremental approach that enable…
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Agile Alliance is excited to host our Agile2024 conference in Grapevine, Texas! Thank you to all of our members and others who are contributing to the agenda and the environme…
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As I was perusing an insightful article featured in Inc. magazine, discussing Patrick Mahomes' admiration for his coach, Andy Reid, a fascinating parallel struck me between th…
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Agile’s strength lies in its adaptability and efficiency, yet a crucial principle gets overshadowed – minimalism.
Minimalism extends beyond a reduction in size or scope. I…
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Dear Agile Enthusiasts,
Are you fully tapping into the wealth of resources Agile Alliance offers? As part of our dynamic community, you might be receiving our informative n…
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Dear Agile Alliance Members,
You might recall Agile Alliance reduced membership dues in 2020 (from $99 to $49) in response to the financial challenges posed by the COVID-19…
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The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agile methodologies is creating a transformative wave across industries, promising to redefine how we approach project man…
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My name is Brian Button, and I am honored to be the chair of the Agile Alliance 2024 Board of Directors. I want to take a few minutes to introduce myself to Agile Alliance mem…
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As we step into the new year, it's the perfect time to set goals for personal and professional growth.
If you're looking to enhance your leadership skills and take your ca…
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What is the purpose of this initiative?
Reimagining Agile: Refresh, extend, and make Agility accessible to all.
What is the scope of this initiative?
To remind us ab…
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For 2024, Agile Alliance is offering a new and exciting level of engagement beyond event sponsorship: the Agile Alliance Annual Partner Program.
Through this program,…
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Are you looking to level up your Agile game in 2024? Well, look no further!
Agile Alliance is here to help you on your journey towards Agile excellence.
As the members…
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2023 was another exciting and eventful year for Agile Alliance. Let's take a closer look at some key highlights and milestones from this past year.
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As we look back on a year filled with insights and advancements, the posts on the Agile Alliance blog offered a wealth of knowledge for professionals at all levels. From embra…
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Got unused Professional Development funds? Put them to great use with an Agile Alliance membership!
As the fiscal year draws to a close, it's the perfect time to review you…
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In case you haven’t heard, Agile2024 is set for July 22 through 26 in Dallas, Texas! Behind every successful conference lies a team of dedicated individuals who work…
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When we think of Individuals and Interactions, we generally think this value emphasizes the importance of the people involved in software development. We consider work/life ba…
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In 2001, the “lightweight” methodology community was the size of a marble, while today, it is expansive. In 2001, the internet was just unfolding; today, AI is ascendant. In 2…
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November 3, 2023, marked a big day: the first appearance of the annual State of Sustainability in Agile event (SoSA 2023).
The Agile Sustainability Initiative set up this …
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In case you haven’t heard, Agile2024 is set for July 22 through 26 in Dallas, Texas! Behind every successful conference lies a team of dedicated individuals who work tirelessl…
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Sometimes, you need a really quick game to liven up a meeting or workshop. For October’s Game On!, we hacked some of the popular Minute-to-Win-It Games to add some Agile …
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As we encounter numerous large-scale environmental challenges, the Agile community is beginning to focus on the pressing concern of sustainability.
In the following Q&A…
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In case you haven’t heard, Agile2024 is set for July 22 through 26 in Dallas, Texas! Behind every successful conference lies a team of dedicated individuals who work tirelessl…
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The explosive influence of AI is showcasing how Agile-based thinking is the key to success
Since the mid-20th century, every industry has encountered wave after wave of tec…
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Have you noticed that some people “get” Agile more quickly than others?
This doesn’t seem to have much to do with seniority, tech/non-tech background, or the type of indust…
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My first year submitting an agile conference abstract must have been quite an adventure for the review team. Even though there were required fields in the system, I had no clu…
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Back in 2003, when I first dipped my toes into the world of Agile, I had no idea that it would become such an integral part of my life. Two decades later, my passion for Agile…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become mor…
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If you implement Scrum ceremonies, you are technically doing Scrum, but are you embracing an Agile philosophy? Is your team engaged in productive work valued by the stakeholde…
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Wow! Thank you to all our members, speakers, sponsors, and guests who made Agile2023 another extraordinary Agile conference! More than 20 years after the Agile manifesto was w…
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This post is from The Adaptavist Group, an Agile2023 sponsor.
A company’s ability to adapt is arguably its core competitive advantage. Research by global…
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This post is from ValueOps™ by Broadcom, an Agile2023 sponsor.
In its simplest form, a value stream is the series of steps your company takes to provide …
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This reflection on Pride Month in 2023 is from Agile Alliance Board Chair Heidi Musser
I Am
I am a human being, wife, daughter, niece, sister, sister-in-law, aunt, f…
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Adaptability is a fundamental competence that organizations must have to achieve sustainability. The ability of any system to adapt transcends the world of organizations and h…
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Starting a new project can feel as daunting as taking down a powerful empire headed by a dark force, especially at the beginning when the project’s scope looms over your plann…
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Are you committed to your community? Then volunteer with your favorite association and everyone wins!
Nonprofit organizations fill a void. They provide essential services a…
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I’m sure most of us in this position have a similar story, but I didn’t intend on doing this. Speaking at and planning professional conferences, to be specific. When I first s…
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When I hear Agile teams complain their retrospective is not working I often see these three patterns:
“We run retrospectives when we need to” which is a bit like going to …
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The Agile Sustainability Initiative is an effort to create awareness about sustainability within the Agile community and explore how Agile can contribute to a more s…
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As an Agile champion, I have often found myself trying to spread the word about Agile and convincing others of its benefits. However, I have come to realize that simply throwi…
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A common question in the world of membership organizations is, “What’s the value proposition for becoming a member?” In other words, why should anyone invest to join and activ…
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The Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) is a hybrid project scheduling and management technique that combines traditional and Agile best practices. The technique is well-suited fo…
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Note: Agile Alliance does not endorse any specific type of certification. This post is for information purposes only and represents the opinions of the author.
Are…
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As we come to the close of the year, we’re also nearing the end of the terms for two of our volunteer board members, Craig Smith and Ellen Grove. We interviewed them both so t…
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Getting back into the swing of things in the first week of January can be a bit of a grind. We wanted to build some excitement about kicking off the new year with a Game On me…
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Should a user story fit entirely into one sprint?
What are the benefits of having Stories smaller than one iteration? Why should you split bigger user stories? And why…
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Moving the needle: From a simple vision to real impact
Most of us have witnessed how a conference or a well-designed, forward-thinking event can become a transforming, eye-…
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As we come to the close of the year, we’re also nearing the end of the terms for two of our volunteer board members, Craig Smith and Ellen Grove. We interviewed them both so t…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become more Agi…
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You’ve read enough by now about what the pandemic did to us all. We fled our office spaces trying to stay safe. In-person events were canceled because we all weren’t comfortab…
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Every group has a point where their working plan comes off the rails. This happens even with the most experienced Agilists – such as your Agile Alliance Board of Directors. Th…
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Objectives and key results, OKRs for short, are in vogue all over the world. And while they can certainly be valuable, unfortunately, bad, decontextualized, and inappropriate …
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Scrum masters are continuously looking for anti-patterns to help guide their team back onto the path of agility. But what if the anti-pattern originates from themselves? That’…
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Profiles in Agility, courage, resilience and humility
I am in awe of Agile2022–the world’s largest gathering of Agilists and all things Agile, which Agile Alliance hosted the …
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Thank YOU for an awesome conference!
It’s only been two weeks since we were all together in Nashville for Agile2022. But it was such a busy and awesome week, and now it seems …
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This post is from the International Institute of Business Analysis, an Agile2022 Sponsor.
Successful product owners need business analysis skills. Why? Often when impl…
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This post is from Isos Technology, an Agile2022 Sponsor.
Although I’m the Director of Agile Services at Isos Technology, I sometimes wish the word “Agile” wasn’t a par…
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This post is from Easy Agile, an Agile2022 Title Sponsor.
Organizations around the world have recognized the need to respond rapidly to meet the challenges of constant chan…
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This post is from one of our Agile2022 Title Sponsors Rally Software from Broadcom.
In navigating new, unprecedented change, disruption, and fluidity, teams simply can’t r…
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Hello, my name is Greg, and I’m a serial hobbyist. I’m looking forward to being your guide for Hobby Hall, a new element at this year’s Agile2022 conference in Nashville.
Bri…
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Happy Pride Month!
I’m proud to be a member of this global and inclusive Agile community--a thriving and diverse community of over 72,000 people who help people realize their …
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“Sometimes you want to go … where everybody knows your name”
Whether you are a solo Scrum Master in a small company or one of many Agile coaches in a massive transformation, t…
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(Kata is a Japanese word meaning "form." Traditionally, it referred to a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements meant to help one learn/improve through repet…
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On my travels, I’ve been able to spend time with penguins—both northern rockhopper penguins and African black-footed penguins. They’re adorable. They’re cute, intelligent, and…
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The Agile2022 Conference thrives on community involvement. Lightning talks provide a way for conference participants to get involved and tell their stories or share important …
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We’ve made some big changes to the program for Agile2022. Our conference chair Kevin Stevens breaks it all down and shares why this year’s conference will be different than in…
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Agile Alliance is excited to share a special report on Agile Business, produced in partnership with Raconteur and published in The Times of London. This 16-page report include…
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In 2021, we noticed a trend with several of our full-stack development squads (scrum teams) of a stagnant or decreasing sprint velocity. My colleague Scrum Master Lauren Willi…
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As a Scrum team, the team and I have always taken pride in delivering on time. Our team (the Highway Team) has strived to make sure we complete stories correctly the first tim…
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We are excited to announce Teresa Foster as the new managing director for Agile Alliance! She starts with us on March 1, 2022, and will join the Agile2022 Conference Planning …
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The following post is about an Agile Alliance-sponsored non-profit event. You can see all our sponsored community events here.
As a part of the Agile for Humanity 2022 Virt…
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If you’re interested in Business Agility, here are some upcoming things that you will want to keep an eye out for:
A special report on Business Agility in the Times on March 2…
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Working from home or another remote location is not a new concept. High-tech companies have been doing this over the last decade, and it was becoming increasingly popular even…
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2021 marked the 20-year anniversary of the publication of the Agile Manifesto. Though I was not present at that now famous Utah meeting of 17 back in 2021, I am very grateful …
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people in becoming more A…
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Heidi Musser, new Agile Alliance Board Chair
I am both honored and humbled to announce that I hav…
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Agile2022 will be my first in-person conference since 2018.
This Agile20XX conference has always been a special week for me. So much content. So much access to world-class spe…
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Welcome to 2022! I thought an excellent way to start the new year would be to take a few minutes and review the basics of Agile. This might be an old topic for some of you, bu…
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In a previous post, Writing a new playbook for Agile2022 in Nashville, I wrote about some of the feedback that the Agile Alliance has received about the last few in-person Agi…
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2021 was a very busy year for Agile Alliance!
As we come to the end of 2021, we wanted to highlight some of the great things that happened throughout the year that you may no…
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Report from the Agile2022 program team
As I write this, I am flying back to Buffalo after a weekend of planning the Agile 2022 Conference in Nashville. It was a fabulously pro…
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Growing a Global Community for Learning and Impact
“Ahas” are beautiful moments because of the learning within them. The pandemic exposed the elephant in the room here at Agil…
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I saw the following note about the Agile Alliance posted on LinkedIn by Ray Arell.
For 20 years, the Agile Alliance has been a critical resource for people and companies to b…
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Are you concerned that your team might have strayed from the foundational principles of Scrum or deviated from its core practices? What are the warning signs and what can you …
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I coach and mentor leaders in organizations that want to transform and learn to adapt to change successfully. As a coach starting to serve an organization, I need to learn a l…
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Reorganized Agile Experience Reports
Each year at the Agile20xx and XP conferences, we have experience report presentations. But what you may not realize is that each presenta…
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(See the original essay on Scrumban.)
The Meaning of Scrumban
If I could boil the essential idea of Lean production down to a single sentence, it would be this:
Continuous im…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile.…
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As more people become interested in Lean ideas and their application to knowledge work and project management, it’s helpful to find ways that make it easier to get started or …
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As we wrap up Agile2021, our first foray into running a large-scale global virtual conference–during an ongoing global pandemic–I’d like to take a moment to appreciate all of …
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Agile2021: With a Little Help from Our Friends
As we put the finishing touches on Agile2021, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the contributions of the MANY people and or…
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One of the few certainties about Agile 2021 is that it will be very different from past Agile20XX events. Moving Agile20xx online has required us to reconsider almost everythi…
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Overcoming One-Size-Fits-All Budgeting: Fitting Your Budgeting Approach to the Agility of Your Business
This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption prog…
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Simon Sinek is well-known as a writer and commentator on Inspirational Leadership. In this article, we look at how Sinek's ideas can be applied to Agile and Scrum and look at …
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The mission of Agile Alliance for many years now has been to "create a global and inclusive community." It’s been almost 2 years since I took the stage during Agile2019 at Agi…
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Scrum has been around since the mid-eighties, so why is it that some companies make it work so beautifully while others end up in such chaos that they run back to old methods?…
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https://vimeo.com/546578265
In this podcast, Howard Sublett and I chat about how Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance are working together this year to create a one-of-a-kind ex…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become more Agi…
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Agile is built on many ideas (Kaizan, Lean, Kanban, etc.), but one of the most important is a body of research into human motivation. This article explores some of these ideas…
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I can’t juggle. But this post isn’t about me. Instead, let me introduce our latest curated experience report author and Scrum Master juggler Iurii Ialtanskii.
In his report, …
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April 18-24th, 2021 is Volunteer Week in the US and Canada, and at Agile Alliance we recognize that much of our work and service to the community is accomplished through the h…
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As a member of the Agile Alliance, did you know that your membership dues are supporting agile conferences worldwide? For several years we have administered the Conference Spo…
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As we near the close of the submission process for Agile2021, we wanted to continue to build on our commitment to expand and attract content that is from a diverse range of sp…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become more Agi…
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Q1 2021 has been a busy quarter for the Agile in Color initiative with Agile Alliance. After spending the last six months of 2020 coming together following Agile Alliance's Gr…
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(This is Part 5 in a 5-part series.)
We started this article series asking this question: How much Lean is in today’s Agile?
“Agile” has become an umbrella term that is used…
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Reinventing Agile2021 as an online event has led to reconsidering almost everything about how we put the conference together. On the upside, moving the event online has really…
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Is Scrumban just adding a Kanban board with a few other ornamental changes, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed? What advantages do you expect to achieve by i…
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In Part 1, we focused on lean thinking, so we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed how local variation can enhance a team’s adaptability. In…
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Growing Racial Equity and Hearing New African Voices
Over the past few years, diversity and inclusion have become increasingly important around the world. And the Agile Commun…
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(This is Part 3 in a 5-part series.)
In Part 1, we discussed how when we focus on lean thinking, we can accomplish more, reliably and consistently. In Part 2, we discussed th…
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I had the great pleasure of interviewing Natalia Lehmann, an Argentine software developer who has been working for Grupo Esfera for more than a decade. Natalia is passionate a…
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(This is Part 2 in a 5-part series.)
In our last post we explored these ideas:
When the organization and the teams explicitly limit their work
Maintain continuous improv…
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A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day.
We can all choose to challenge and call out…
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(This is Part I in a five part series.)
As the two of us compared notes about clients and their ability to use agile approaches, we realized something that surprised us. Alt…
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https://vimeo.com/508887532
In this interview I had the opportunity to talk with Erich Bühler, an Uruguayan by birth who moved to Spain many years ago and from there has b…
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We did it! The first iteration of content selection for Agile2021 is complete. We received hundreds of great submissions already and are looking forward to more when iteration…
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In this interview, I had the pleasure of talking with Marc Oliveras. Marc is from Barcelona and for more than twenty years he has accumulated valuable experience working in va…
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The “ITSM Tornado” has been defined as the “whirlwind of requests for Platforms, IT Service Management, and infrastructure support that come in from many different directions,…
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Italy is where it all began!
“Carnevale” most likely derives from the Latin ‘carnem levare’, which translates “to remove meat”. Over many centuries it became “Carne, Vale”…
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The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is world famous! Every year, since 1893, this immense and exuberant spectacle begins 40 days before Easter and it’s celebrated for five days. Mi…
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Why traditional budgeting is the antithesis of Agile – and what to do about it
Most organizations are born small and born agile. They are nimble, trusting, collaborative, non-…
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Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is Carnival in the United Kingdom. It marks the traditional feast day before the start of lent on Ash Wednesday. The name Shrove comes from the…
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With everything that's going on in the world these days, Agile Alliance may be one of the last things on your mind. We get that. Still, as we mark our 20th anniversary, we'd l…
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The team working on the Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics Initiative has been working steadily over the last six months, and we have now published a draft Code of Ethical C…
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Our world became topsy-turvy because of the COVID pandemic. Agile Coach Camp Worldwide was no exception.
Agile Coach Camp Worldwide (ACC-WW) is normally held the weekend pr…
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‘Let’s Play Mas!’
Carnival celebrations in Trinidad and Tobago are world-famous and attract visitors from almost every country. Carnival lasts for months starting right after …
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If you’ve been to an Agile20XX event before, you know it’s an amazing conference where people from all over the world come together to discuss the latest in all things Agile —…
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In this interview, I had the pleasure of talking with Adela Tort, a developer with many years of experience and great passion for the technical side of software development.
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Mardi Gras in the USA is celebrated every winter along the Gulf Coast from Galveston Texas to Pensacola Beach Florida. The first Fat Tuesday Carnivals here took place in Mobil…
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The work of an Agile Coach is very versatile. Agile transformations are as well.
Each team has its own fingerprint and organizations are one of a kind. This is what mak…
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Look back at last year and imagine you did not run any Retrospective. What would have been different?
If the answer is little or nothing, read on. I might prompt some usefu…
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The Agile Alliance blog is a popular destination for our community of practitioners. It contains the latest and greatest articles in the Agile space.
A wide array of to…
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When the annual deliver:Agile event was canceled earlier this year, I was sad.
The program team — Cheryl Hammond, Amr Noaman, Amitai Schleier — and I had put together a lov…
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Your company values are defined by the worst behaviors permitted within your business.
I always thought that was a rather negative worldview. But it helped me to think of d…
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Wondering how Agile Alliance conference gets the most innovative, thought-provoking, and noteworthy sessions?
Our reviewers find them among the hundreds of submissions we rece…
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In this interview I had the pleasure of meeting again with Paulo Caroli, an old friend from the Agile Latam community.
Paulo is a consultant who has been working for Th…
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In this interview, I had the pleasure of meeting Federico Zuppa, who is an old friend of the Agile community.
Federico is from Argentina and has been working at 10Pines…
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‘Tis the season…for code freeze!
Although the prevailing Agile wisdom (and much of the research, for example, see the 2016 State of DevOps Report) tells us code freezes are ba…
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How well are Agile retrospectives serving you?
We assume you follow the Agile retrospective agenda by starting with setting the stage, then gathering data, followed by generat…
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With everything going on in this world right now, I’ve found myself using the phrase “I don’t know” more than ever and I’m guessing that you’re probably feeling the same way.
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It was a great pleasure to interview Adrian Perreau, who is a consultant, trainer, and frequent speaker at international conferences.
Adrian is a very active member of …
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February 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of the Agile movement, specifically the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Developmen…
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Continuing my series of interviews for Agile Alliance, this time I had the great pleasure of talking with Miguel Viera, a developer, who together with his colleagues from Code…
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The Agile Alliance community was deeply saddened to learn that Tamsen Mitchell passed away on October 28, 2020.
A gifted coach and visual facilitator, Tamsen was a cherishe…
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In this interview I had the great pleasure of speaking with Antonio de la Torre (Toño), who from his native Spain has been doing valuable technical mentoring for various compa…
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On October 15th, deliver:Agile Live! hosted a panel on the unique challenges technical job seekers may be facing during the pandemic.
There have been many requests for a sh…
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Maica Trinidad, who is an anthropologist by training and an Agilist by vocation.
Her training in Social Sciences has allowed her to s…
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What value are you delivering?
A few days ago I spoke with Vasco Duarte & Johanna Rothman about delivering a product into production with defects and the resulting time it…
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At the end of every Agile Conference, we hold a retrospective (of course!).
The conference chair, program, and track chairs, marketing, etc., all take part. One of the recurri…
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One upside of moving events online because of pandemic restrictions is that Agile events around the globe are suddenly accessible to a much broader segment of our community.
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Woody Zuill, widely credited with discovering mob programming while working at Hunter Industries, describes mobbing (or ensemble programming, as the practice is also known) as…
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I had the pleasure of talking with Lina Prato, a graduate of Political Science by training but who has long been involved in the world of project management, and from there sh…
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For this interview, I had the pleasure to talk to Gisela Decuzzi, an Argentine software developer with a strong passion for Agile technical practices.
Gisela joined 10P…
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Agile Alliance Experience Reports help us understand how Agile really works, the challenges that arise, and how Agile approaches evolve.
They are valuable resources for the…
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When the co-authors of the Agile Manifesto defined adaptivity and responsiveness as one of the foundations of Agile, they could not possibly have foreseen everything that 2020…
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I had the great pleasure to interview Thomas Wallet, an old friend with whom I reunited after many years.
Thomas works at Kleer, a company that helps organizations in Argen…
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The Agile Alliance Agile Coaching Ethics initiative is developing a code of ethical conduct to raise coaching standards in Agile coaching and amplify the value of the profess…
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I am moved that Agile Alliance invested numerous hours providing space for this conversation.
That members and subscribers showed up over and over from all over the world to p…
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I had the pleasure to interview Florencia Rossy, an Agile Coach from Uruguay.
Florencia has accumulated years of experience working in several companies in her native c…
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One of my favorite quotes from the famous Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, is: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
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We wrapped up our designathon, by again continuing to address those complex problems, with real solutions to grow racial equity for black lives in the Agile community.
Grou…
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My guest for this interview was Sebastián Ismael, a software professional and visiting lecturer from Argentina.
Sebastián has been with Grupo Esfera, a boutique software co…
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I had the great pleasure of interviewing Sandro Mancuso, one of the most prominent representatives of the Software Craftsmanship community.
Sandro is the author of “The Sof…
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It’s exciting to see Design Thinking work in navigating a path to social change.
A journey where listening has led to empathy and understanding, of myriad solution ideas. We a…
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Diego Garagorry from Montevideo, Uruguay.
Diego is a prominent member of the Agile Community in South America and was one of the organize…
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We were already busy writing and reviewing experience reports when the Agile2020 conference was canceled in early June.
Towards the end of March, we’d selected twenty exper…
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A recap of our July 10th event
In order to explore Growing Racial Equity in the Agile Community for Black Lives, it felt natural to use a design thinking approach. When faced …
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I had the pleasure to interview Eduardo Ferro from Madrid-Spain
Eduardo is a software crafter with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations of different sizes…
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In this interview, I had the pleasure of talking to Juan Garbajosa, Deputy Vice Rector at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain.
Juan has also been involved in organi…
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If you aren’t aware, thanks to COVID-19 Agile Coach Camp Worldwide has gone virtual with the Home Edition.
This gives an opportunity to have even broader participation across …
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The Agile Alliance Board of Directors has received many questions over the nominations process for new Board Members. We would like to share some of the changes we introduced …
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I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Carlos Blé from the Canary Islands in Spain.
Carlos is a software crafter with almost two decades of experience in software deve…
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Listening and Empathy in the Agile Community
The world was shaken by yet another graphic video showing us the effects of racism – so severe that it resulted in yet another lif…
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After many years of guiding Agile Alliance as its Managing director, Phil Brock has advised the Agile Alliance Board of Directors that he will be leaving the organization in A…
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Continuing our series of interviews with Latam Agile Luminaries, this time I had the pleasure to interview David Canteros from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
David's backgrou…
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The rate of Agile adoption across Africa and the Middle East has generally trailed behind the rest of the world.
Perhaps there is no better reflection of this than the fact th…
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Continuing my series of interviews with Latam Agile Luminaries, this time I had the great pleasure of interviewing Ana Carmona from Barcelona, Spain.
Ana is a software crafter…
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Three Key Leadership Plays to Succeed with Agile
Two groups of leaders
Not too long ago, I was talking to a potential client, let’s call him Steve, who was interested in “goin…
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A few weeks ago, I stood in the alley talking to my neighbor about the coronavirus situation (from an appropriate distance).
"It can't get worse," he said. “It can always g…
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I recently had the great pleasure of interviewing Israel Alcázar from Madrid, Spain.
Israel co-founded a consulting company, Thinking With You, many years ago that helps co…
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Hello everyone!
I appreciate in this difficult time in the world, people have a lot more to contend with than a conference being canceled. However, I want to extend a personal…
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Our sincere thanks goes out to the Agile2020 Conference Chair, Program Committee, Track Chairs, Reviewers, Speakers, Sponsors, Volunteer Coordinators, Purple Shirt Volunteers,…
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This week, I had Vanesa Tejada in our Agile Alliance series of interviews with Latin American Agile Luminaries.
Vanesa is originally from Madrid, Spain but moved to Chile a…
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This week I had the great pleasure of interviewing Jorge Silva from Argentina.
Jorge, together with three other partners, founded 10Pines more than a decade ago. It is a softw…
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Continuando con la serie de entrevista con personajes de la agilidad esta semana tuve el placer de entrevistar a Carlos Iglesias quien desde Barcelona-España habló acerca de B…
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Esta semana tuve el gran placer de entrevistar a Vicenç Garcia-Altés quien es originalmente de Barcelona pero vive y trabaja ya hace muchos años en Londres.
Vicenç es actua…
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Sprint planning. Product backlog refinement. Daily stand-ups. Sprint review. Demos. And then the retrospective.
How you adapt these practices to meet the needs of your …
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Mi invitado para la entrevista semanales con personajes de la Agilidad Latinoamericana esta vez fue Diego Fontdevila, que es un practicante de la agilidad que fue de quienes i…
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What happens when you can’t hold a physical conference event?
Conference organizers put in incredible amounts of work to invite speakers, review submissions, shape a program, …
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Esta semana tuve el gran placer de entrevistar a Nico Paez quien es un profesor universitario, consultor y mentor técnico en DevOps.
Nico es argentino y estuvo entre el grupo …
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Tuve el placer de entrevistar a Ingrid Astiz, quien es una de la pioneras que se sumó a la fundación de la comunidad Agil en 2009 en su natal Argentina. Antes de comenzar con …
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Setting the stage. Gathering data. Encouraging participation. Making your team feel safe.
Facilitating retrospectives doesn’t come without challenges that require attention…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become more Agi…
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Things are not what they used to be.
Many are now working remotely for the first time in their lives – away from those they are used to being with five days a week. One of …
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In March, the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic. This global health crisis presents vast unique challenges that have impa…
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This story originates sometime back in 2013 - 2014 when I started my journey to become an Agile Enabler in India.
When I began, I did not find a single woman to guide me or…
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Recientemente me uní al Agile Alliance en mi nuevo rol de Desarrollador de la Comunidad para Latinoamericana. Previamente a este rol serví por seis años como miembro del Board…
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Agile2020 is coming soon, and I can’t wait for the chance to see old friends, meet new ones, and learn from some of the veterans in the Agile community.
One of my favorite …
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I hope you enjoy reading "Got Credit? Using Agile and Visual Models to Roll Out a Global Credit Transformation at Dell", our latest experience report by Candase Hokanson and C…
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Many people are now accustomed to working from their home office.
I myself am mostly staying at home, avoiding face-to-face interaction with colleagues and friends, especia…
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A few weeks back, a good friend Elizabeth Hendrickson tweeted about her approach to learning as being quite non-linear. Like her, this has been my approach to problem-solving,…
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There are great Scrum Masters and lousy Scrum Masters.
There are also great and lousy managers, developers, testers, salespeople, and neighbors. People are people – no matter …
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During the last few years, we have witnessed the amazing revival of an almost 50-year-old management idea called “Objectives and Key Results” (OKR).
The former Intel CEO An…
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Agile Alliance is pleased to announce the program for our annual technical conference, deliver:Agile 2020, which is tailored to software developers who want to learn more abou…
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Our latest conversation is with Dane Weber. Dane took a two-year break from his job as a Scrum Master to join a development team. His perspectives as both a developer and Scru…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people to become more Agi…
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Around this time last year, I tweeted, “XP is not dead; it’s just not where you left it.” I was tired of hearing longtime XP practitioners complaining about the decline (or ev…
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It is unclear when the phrase “stop admiring the problem” came into my leadership tool kit, but I have been using it to improve my personal and business life for about two dec…
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One of the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto says: “At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior acc…
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In the almost-20 years since “A Manifesto for Agile Software Development” was written and the 15 or more years before that during which some pre-Agilists were laying the groun…
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Sustainable development has always been in the Agile Principles, and, though this was mainly focused on creating a consistent pace of value delivery by not pushing humans too …
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The annual Supporting Agile Adoption Initiative face-to-face workshop took place December 13-15. This time, the event was hosted at Ericsson in Stockholm.
As we do every ye…
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I had the opportunity to speak with Sarah Baca at Agile2019 where she reported on her experiences assessing team performance and Scrum Masters’ competency.
Sarah is a people…
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I am a strong believer that sound organizational models are the key to a company's success and its viability in the complex world in which it must survive.
The key to any v…
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One of our internal customers had been having a lot of problems scaling how they work.
We work very closely with this team and heard about their pain in our regular meetings, …
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I started out speaking in the developer community a few (cough cough) years ago and then within the test community, and through those I met great people who were very active a…
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What is the most impactful experience you have had on your Agile journey?
When you are considering that question, do you find yourself thinking about a story? If so, we wan…
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Your Request to Improve is Denied!
A few weeks back, I was at the Agile Testing Days conference in Germany, and I had a great conversation with one of the attendees about what…
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The Agile2020 organizing committee has just gathered for our first onsite at the Hilton Orlando — the host hotel for the conference.
As we were walking around to work out whic…
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Despite what some people may think, accountability and Agile are not mutually exclusive.
How does your organization incorporate accountability? Is it part of your organizat…
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Join our conversation with the Agile community about diversity and inclusion.
Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) has become increasingly important to the Agile community o…
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A few weeks ago, I got into an interesting discussion at the eXperience Agile event over in Portugal about whether Agile helps or kills innovation. I found this to be a very t…
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EventStorming is a collaborative workshop technique with roots in the Domain-Driven Design Community. At an EventStorming session, which typically lasts an entire day, busines…
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One toxic team member, left unchecked, can lead to low morale, and low productivity, or can even destroy an Agile team.
Imagine this was your Agile team: Your Product Owner…
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At Agile2018, we trialed what we called ‘Agile Circuit training’. It was intended to be a high-energy Friday morning session (i.e. after the Thursday night party) where people…
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Today’s pressure on companies from volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) as well as digitalization requires them to be innovative at all times. Companies t…
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I often run into teams that like big User Stories. Why spend time writing, planning, and estimating a bunch of small stories when you can write, plan, and estimate just one bi…
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The excitement was buzzing as the time to start grew near. People who hadn't seen each other in a while embraced and chatted about updates on their lives. The joy and energy…
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Daily Scrum? It’s a waste of time and interrupts my work.
Daily Scrum is just a chance for the Scrum Master to show up and micromanage.
Daily Scrum is for reporting status…
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How transparent are you? How transparent is your team, and your organization? We all know that transparency is an essential aspect of Agile development, but do you really un…
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The last responsible moment is an idea that gets a great deal of play in the Agile community. One way that concept comes about is when figuring out how soon to do certain thin…
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This article is specifically targeted toward RTE’s, Product Management, and coaches that are currently engaged in establishing a program level workflow (Kanban) that prioritiz…
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Agile software development has become fairly commonplace, some people may even say that it is now mainstream.
The success of those moves to Agile have met with varying levels…
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XP 2019 is a great place to expand your knowledge about Agile development. It is a good space to learn, no matter whether you are a novice, an experienced professional, a tran…
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This entry was written as part of the Supporting Agile Adoption program, an Agile Alliance initiative dedicated to supporting organizations and their people become more Agile.…
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The general guidance in the Principals Behind the Agile Manifesto is that you want self-organizing teams consisting of motivated individuals:
“Build projects around motivated …
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When organizations adopt Agile practices, there are a few roles that often get left out of the picture because they were not explicitly noted in the framework that the organiz…
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When I’ve helped organizations adopt Agile software development, there are three groups of people who seem to get the most concerned: development managers, project managers, a…
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When the topic turns to testing and Agile software development, I usually hear variations of the following two questions:
We usually take six weeks to do systems testing af…
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This is part of a series of posts where I take a look at some commonly asked questions and provide my spin on them. The answers are all my own. So while my answers do not nec…
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Hi, my name is Brian Button. I’m one of the people who helped put together deliver:Agile 2019. I wanted to share with you one of the sessions I’m really looking forward to see…
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I have the opportunity to talk to business analysts quite a bit, and the conversation usually turns to the topic of Agile.
More often than not, the question that comes up is …
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You and I attend tech conferences for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes we're learning something new and want to immerse ourselves in an event about that technology. Or sometime…
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I recently received a question about the basic qualities Agile teams should have via the website. I replied with a Reader’s Digest version to the requester and promised a more…
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What activities do you suggest when starting a new team?
When forming a new team, you want to make sure you can get them started off on the right foot. There are several diffe…
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From December 14th to 16th, 2018, the members of the Agile Alliance's Supporting Agile Adoption initiative met for the initiative’s yearly face-to-face workshop. The event was…
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The Agile For Humanity Tucson launched its webinar series in September 2018 and continues to work toward building an Agile community in the Tucson, Arizona area. On the 2nd o…
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If you start with Agile, one of the first things you typically do is come up with a team. And yes, of course, the team will be cross-functional. But what’s actually meant by c…
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At Agile Alliance, we pride ourselves on the wealth of high-quality, in-depth Agile-related resources we offer you.
But we also realize that sometimes too much of a good thin…
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It's nearing the holiday season here in the US. You know what that means: awkward office parties! How you get invited to these parties often sets the tone for what you should …
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Every once in a while it's good to take a tool out of its box and find out if it's still fit for purpose. Maybe even find if it can be used in a new way. I recently did this w…
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I’ve asked this question a lot over the last few years to a wide range of professionals across different occupations and got similar answers. We can read, take classes, atten…
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At Agile2018, I had a conversation with experience report authors David Grabel and David Reichert. I met with them along with Serena Godfrey (who the report was about) and som…
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At Agile2018, I had a conversation with Nienke Alma about her experiences as a member of a POCLAC leadership team at ING.
POCLAC stands for Product Owner, Chapter Lead, and A…
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At the AgileTonight event on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, four Agile Alliance members shared stories about the direct effect of Diversity and Inclusion on their lives with a room …
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"Never happen…" "Can't be done…" "Too controversial…"
These were the comments an Agile team received when they floated an idea for a national Agile initiative to transform …
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That's something that David Hussman said to me a few years ago. He loved jamming with people on new ideas, and I had the honor of being in a number of those conversations with…
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If you work in an IT organization that seeks to operate in an Agile fashion, you may have run across the challenge of getting your stakeholders — those people who you’re build…
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Being connected to society is an essential ingredient to long-term profitability. If a company is not giving back to society, it is likely to be viewed as untrustworthy and di…
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I recently had a conversation with Sal Freudenberg and Matt Wynne about their experiences remote mobbing. I met Sal and Matt at XP 2018 in Porto, Portugal where they presented…
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We hear people often say that an Agile transformation implies a culture change and that this culture change refers actually to a change of the mindset. However, what does this…
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Agile2018 is fast approaching, and I can't wait for the chance to see old friends, meet new ones, and learn from some of the veterans in the Agile community. One of my favorit…
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Last year’s Women in Agile 2017 event was a whirlwind of eye opening experiences. Through the New Voices Program, I was given the opportunity to speak for the first time with…
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No Getters
That's the normal form of this technical practice.
No Getters
There's some uncertainty around what "No Getters" means. OK, there are two versions of it.
Yegor Buga…
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My thoughts about Object Oriented Programming have evolved over the years. Especially in the past 6 months. My development of MicroObjects has caused a lot of thinking about O…
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2018 is the 5th year for the 5 Saturdays Initiative and we are excited to share knowledge and introduce 13- to 19-year-old high school students to Agile life skills, technolog…
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I just got off a call with another transformation coach who said his company is moving away from its transformation work, and they are going to be reverting to the basics that…
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My latest conversation is with Avraham Poupko. He will present his experience report, "Soup or Salad — Models of Diversity", at Agile2018 in San Diego. As you listen in, you’l…
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There are so many conferences in the Agile space. The deliver:Agile 2018 conference was specifically created to give practitioners a place to talk about the technical details,…
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With great sadness, we learned of Mike Beedle's tragic death on March 23, 2018.
Mike's positive influence and impact on the Agile community has been significant. He played …
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Agile continues to grow and develop. Today, Agile technical practices go well beyond software (think DevOps, UX, and safety aspects). Technical practices can’t get far without…
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I had an opportunity to check in with several experience reporters and get an update. With their permission I recorded some of these conversations, to share with the Agile com…
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Avraham Poupko’s experience report, “Soup or Salad” – Models of Diversity, really got me thinking. Perhaps we are thinking too narrowly about the kinds of diversity we need to…
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For groups of individual contributors to become teams that can achieve greatness together takes more than technical skills. The journey also requires what some are calling “pe…
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Late last year we asked our individual and corporate members for some feedback on their Agile Alliance membership.
We received a lot of great information, and also remember…
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Despite a sea of case studies and proof points, Agile is the choice for only 40% of IT projects. What are those other 60% thinking? Why would they ignore what's clearly the be…
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These are exciting times in the IT industry. The cloud, DevOps, the Internet of Things, machine learning, and countless other innovations are rapidly changing our marketplace.…
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As an executive, you know that, by quickly delivering innovative, high-value-added features, you gain new customers and market share from your competitors.
All too often rele…
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Are you a coach interested in connecting with other coaches, improving your skills, engaging with others to create ideas, AND helping fellow coaches do the same? Then perhaps …
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The deliver:Agile 2018 conference program committee is pleased to announce Andrea Goulet and Jeff Sussna as the keynote speakers for this year's conference in Austin.
Andre…
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It’s been a busy year on the Agile Alliance Blog, bringing you the latest in thought leadership and keeping you abreast of our activities. Here are the top 10 most popular blo…
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I can still remember the pit in my stomach when Steve Jobs tried to quiet the complaints of the newly launched iPhone 4 (the first I ever owned). The smartphone giant came out…
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Creating valuable software requires knowing the customer—we all agree on that, right? The first question that then comes to mind is how to support this product discovery proce…
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I had the pleasure of helping organise the Agile Tauranga 2017 conference held in….wait for it, Tauranga at the end of September. Agile Tauranga was an Agile Alliance initiati…
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Do you want to know a trick to increase your team’s velocity?
Now that I have your attention I want to tell you that tricks don’t work. I’ve seen people play tricks and sacri…
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Just about everyone who has looked into Agile software development is familiar with the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (Agile Manifesto) and the Principles behind th…
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Drum roll, please!
For the past year, we have shared with you that the Agile Practice Guide being jointly developed by volunteers from Agile Alliance and Project Management I…
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Ron Quartel recently put relative estimation to the test and shared the results in his recent post, Putting Relative Estimation to the Test. His main finding was that absolute…
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By Jorgen Hesselberg and Roshelle Ritzenthale
Right before our eyes, our physical and digital spaces are converging. Augmented realities are creating a new genre of place-mak…
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Traditional agile forecasting involves breaking down an entire backlog into stories, getting point estimates on each story, summing these, and then dividing the sum by the tea…
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In any given moment, we are faced with around 11 million pieces of information. Of those bits of info, the brain can only process 40 at a time. If that’s the case, what do we …
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A few days ago, I added a glossary item for epic to the Agile Glossary.
As I started writing that entry I thought crafting a definition of epic should be really straight forw…
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It’s been over 15 years since the Agile Manifesto was created. Since then plenty of methods, frameworks, models, and tools have been invented and reinvented. It’s easy to see …
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"Be kind to others. Behave professionally."
Agile Alliance believes deeply in the key tenets of the Agile approaches we support. In particular, we value self-improvement throu…
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So. Full disclosure: I’m a speaker in the DevOps track giving a talk for DevOps n00bs and curious but shy people who want to learn more. You can imagine how, coming from this …
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I’m just the boss of me. As an individual team contributor, I’ll find myself looking around the crowd at the conference and wondering which people are the leaders.
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I hope you're looking forward to Agile2017 as much as I am!
As I look over the exciting schedule, my eyes are inevitably drawn to the keynote sessions where we'll…
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Agile is a broad field with great variety in practitioners. Individuals and interactions are at the heart of our work. The Agile Alliance initiative Women in Agile aims to sup…
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Our latest experience report, Partnering to Improve Usability, shares the story of how Krystina Edwards became a better product owner after putting aside some preconceived not…
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So you’re attending Agile2017, right? Did you realize this makes you a member of the Agile Alliance? You have joined the ranks of an active community and the Agile Alliance Bo…
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In my wandering at Agile2016, I happened upon a very interesting track. I hovered by the door until my friend George noticed me lurking. He explained that participants arrived…
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Perusing the schedule for Agile2017, my eyes fell upon a familiar name of an old friend who I hadn’t seen at the big Agile conference before. I was so excited that we will be …
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Walking from session to session at an Agile Alliance conference, you’ll see a cluster of tables covered in sticky notes & markers surrounded by chairs and flip charts. Wha…
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Our latest experience report, Founding a Code Bootcamp with Agile, is by Harold Shinsato. Harold is a co-founder and one of the instructors of the Montana Code School. The ini…
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If you’ve been to an Agile Alliance conference, you may have noticed a crew of people wearing deep purple shirts scurrying about with great purpose and camaraderie. These are …
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Over the last couple of months, I have been collecting stories from Agile development teams and management looking for trends in how well that partnership is working. With ev…
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Last week we added the term customer development to the Agile Glossary. Customer development is a framework originally named by Steve Blank but practiced by many entrepreneurs…
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I have been attending Agile20xx conferences for years now, and last year I was asked to co-chair of the Lightning Talks track. I had heard of lightning talks before and liked …
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Daniel Pink said, “We are our stories. We compress years of experience, thought, and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves…
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There’s a concept core to Agile Software Development not mentioned explicitly in the Agile Manifesto or the 12 Principles behind it.
Context is very important.
You could eve…
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Folks in the Agile community have long suggested that user stories are placeholders for a conversation. That pronouncement may leave you with some questions, such as who shoul…
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PMI and Agile Alliance have joined forces to create an Agile Practice Guide with the intention of building a greater understanding of Agile practices, with emphasis on how Agi…
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I would like to think I’ve always supported people that look and sound different than me. One of the friends I enjoyed most in high school was the only African-American kid in…
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Agile Alliance and Project Management Institute (PMI) are about to initiate a major launch later this year – the Agile Practice Guide. Our joint development team has spent sev…
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I would like to first thank Agile Alliance for letting me write this guest blog. Agile retrospectives is a topic that I am very familiar with and I want to share a couple of t…
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I’m often asked how I started in the Agile community and #WomenInAgile. The answer is not that simple. It was many random events, introductions, and sometimes just luck. That’…
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In my several years helping organizations adopt Agile, I’ve seen the label “Hybrid Agile” pop up frequently. It seems to be used most frequently in organizations whose IT depa…
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This post discusses the development of the new Agile Practice Guide and its fit, alignment, and potential conflicts with other PMI standards documents including the upcoming P…
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Building on the success of “Fun Over Study” at AATC2016, the 2017 Agile Alliance Technical Conference in Boston will feature an interactive "Learning Lounge" that will be open…
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Our latest experience report is from Chris Lucien of Hunter Industries. Chris is the Director of Software Development at Hunter, but is not the team’s manager. Management task…
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The Program Committee for AATC2017 is proud to announce that Lightning Talks will again be part of our program. These 45-minute sessions, one per conference day, are filled wi…
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Now that Agile methods have become mainstream in parts of the world, it’s appropriate to reassess our goals and approach in the spirit of uncovering better ways of doing thing…
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I’ve been a project manager/program manager and have taught project management and program management since 1992. I have the gray hair to prove it.
One of my secret tools was…
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The AATC2017 program committee is pleased to welcome Dr. Anita Sengupta as the closing keynote speaker for this year's conference in Boston. Her keynote "Engineering the Red P…
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You can get a master's degree from a great university without ever stepping foot on campus. I did, thanks to the University of Colorado's great distance program for engineerin…
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A structural defect, not a personal failing
Technical debt is the deficit in code quality that adds up over time. When you copy and paste code, create classes with unnecessary…
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Gauge your knowledge of Technical Debt and the Agile Alliance Debt Analysis Model (A2DAM). Our open test covers the following 4 domains:
The Technical Debt Concept
Tec…
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Level
Intermediate
Yield
3-50+ Servings
Total Time
Preparation: 30 minutes
Cook for 30 to 45 minutes for the game part
Ingredients
Dough: One slide deck prepared in advance…
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Before you start debating story points vs. no estimates, let’s examine what can go wrong when a team uses Planning Poker with Story Points to estimate their work. The first mi…
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I was talking to some friends at Agile2016 about which they thought was more effective, pair programming done well or mob programming done well, but we ended up deciding that …
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The Building Business Capability 2016 conference was held in Las Vegas 31 October until 4 November. The event attracted approximately 1400 people from 20+ countries. It is the…
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The Agile Alliance Technical Conference 2017 Program Committee is very pleased to announce that our opening keynote will be Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson with the world pr…
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Remember when Agile was just about team practices, back when XP first started (or maybe we are just young and you just read about it in a history book!)? Regardless, the new a…
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Now that the Agile movement has expanded to larger organizations in more industries, we’re seeing a lot of variation. Granted, we’re used to a variety of frameworks, technique…
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Integration is one of the most painful parts of a traditional software development process. After the system is designed and coded it gets integrated together in a Waterfall p…
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Agile Alliance is hosting its second Agile Alliance Technical Conference in 2017. We're Linda Cook and Paul Hammond, members of the Agile Alliance Board, and we would like to …
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This post recounts a working group session held on September 25th at the PMI Global Congress conference in San Diego and its main findings. The workshop was an opportunity for…
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Disclaimer: Of course, this post is in no way intended to be gender-specific. In my experience, there is no difference between the Scrum pop and the Scrum mom. This post is al…
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Recently, a team of practitioners with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and cultures has come together to collaborate on an Agile Practice Guide sponsored by Ag…
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Have you ever been involved in a conversation about Agile and heard a term, for example information radiator” and you wondered what that term really meant?
Or maybe you’re th…
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So yes, it’s overdue. The #WomenInAgile session was three months ago, but honestly it took about that long to get my bearings back afterward. It was a busy year in preparation…
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Agile Alliance supports people who explore and apply Agile values, principles, and practices to make building software solutions more effective, humane, and sustainable. We sh…
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The 2nd annual OnAgile is upon us! OnAgile is the virtual conference put on each year by the Agile Alliance. It will be held live on Thursday, October 20th, and available on-d…
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How can you get a legacy codebase under control and bring it to a new level of maturity? This post summarises my advice and lessons learned from years of working on a large le…
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Agile methods are now mainstream in IT. After nearly two decades of widespread adoption, things are really getting exciting!
In the early days, we were happy just to get a fe…
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The Agile Manifesto was created 15 years ago. Since then, Agile has undergone a substantial evolution. Early on, the organizations that just got it, did it. Then as more peopl…
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Is Agile still Agile? That was an interesting topic for a panel discussion at Agile Europe in Gdansk in June. A great discussion ensued with a panel that included Ray Arell (f…
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Could Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) be tools to enable distributed Agile teaming?
Co-location and pair programming are two of several elements in enabling h…
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Change has changed. The amount of information and speed of information flow have outpaced our organizations’ abilities to filter and make sense of available facts and…
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20 questions 29 questions for you — the new Scrum Master — that fit into a 60 minutes time-box. Start learning how the new Scrum team is currently working and get up to speed.…
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Is Agile still Agile? That was the intriguing topic for a panel discussion at Agile Europe in Gdansk last week. The panel included Ray Arell (Intel), Hendrik Esser (Ericsson),…
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A common question in organizations involves determining who should be the product owner of an initiative. Here are some general recommendations:
If the result of the effort…
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Our latest experience report is by Hernan Wilkinson, one of the founders of 10Pines, a 6½-year-old Argentine software company. The company founders live their agile values and…
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Of the various software delivery processes under the agile umbrella, scrum became the most popular and is the most common implementation of agile in Corporate America. I like …
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A large part of the success of the lean manufacturing movement was its call to eliminate waste. Deming introduced the concept that waste in manufacturing came from excessive i…
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What is this game about?
Reducing technical debt is important. So why doesn’t everyone do it?
What happens in the game?
In this game, you’re a software development team worki…
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2016 marks the fifth and final year SoftEd’s Shane Hastie will be on the Board of the Agile Alliance. We talk to Shane about the growth of the Agile Alliance over the past fiv…
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In traditional organizations, people know what Business Analysts do: They work with their business partners to understand strategy and goals, and they communicate business req…
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Life as an Introverted Mobber
Our latest experience report is by Aaron Griffith. Aaron shares what it's like to be an introvert on a mob programming team. I was introduced to …
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As explained in our introduction document about technical debt, it is important to identify and analyze technical debt in order to take relevant decisions about its payback.
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“Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility,” is one of the principles of the Agile Manifesto. In retrospect, at their ten-year reunion, at …
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Every IT organization says “We want to have a great culture.” I’ll bet yours is no different. We all know that a wonderful culture usually leads to highly-engaged team members…
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Statistics show that in 2014, more than two-thirds (68.5%) of U.S. workers are NOT enthusiastic and committed to their work. If you work 5 days a week, 40 hours a week, most o…
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In Nancy Van Schooenderwoert’s post about the motivation behind the Agile Alliance Technical Conference conference (#AATC2016), she includes our graph of what is in scope for …
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What is Technical Debt? Where does it come from?
Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, once said that some problems with code are like financial debt.…
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The adage, "Act in haste, repent at leisure," definitely applies to technical debt. People under deadline pressure take shortcuts, which is one of several ways in which projec…
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Are your management practices simply in need of fine-tuning or do they require thoughtful innovation? Are those processes something you set and forget, or are they worthy of …
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For the fifth time, the Supporting Agile Adoption work group met from Dec 11th until Dec 13th. Ericsson hosted this meeting in the beautiful town of Aachen, Germany, where the…
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There are plenty of conferences these days – even plenty of Agile conferences – so when I first heard of the Agile Alliance Technical Conference (AATC), April 7 - 9 in Raleigh…
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As organizations realize that the traditional way of doing business is not aligned with today’s market demands, Agile has continued to become a preferred way of breaking the b…
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by Ray Arell, Jens Coldewey, Israel Gat, Jorgen Hesselberg
As Agile Methods have become one of the predominant ways for successful software development, we are inc…
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In this work, we present the concept of a change model. The model addresses complex changes as we often experience them when introducing a modern (respectively Agile) software…
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Abstract
Many organizations are interested in transforming their organizations using Agile and other initiatives to get breakthrough results. Although there is a great deal…
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Most companies want to be profitable, adaptable, and sustainable. Agile methods and good people management practices support that. However, the current core people management …
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by Michael Sahota, Bjarte Bogsnes, Jaana Nyfjord, Jorgen Hesselberg, Almir Drugovic
Many large and mid-sized organizations struggle with taking Agile beyond IT largely becaus…
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Our latest report, Embracing the Agile Mindset for Organisational Change, by Marian Willeke and Scott Marsee, recounts the tale of two intrepid instructional designers who to…
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In the past few years, Cisco, Coca-Cola, GE, IBM, MasterCard, and other large companies have begun to launch “internal startups” — teams of employees sheltered from corporate …
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The Lean Startup approach is built on the loop: Build, Measure, Learn. While some might say it’s just launching incomplete products to see what works, it’s been a successful m…
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The Agile Alliance mission is to support those who explore and apply Agile principles and practices to make the software industry productive, humane, and sustainable. The Alli…
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Problem
In a new project assignment, I was made responsible for the pre-silicon verification of a moderately complex ASIC IP block. It was a newly designed, entirely digital I…
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Problem
We were building a mobile spectrometer instrument as a greenfield project.
We needed to investigate microprocessors from several vendors and support the development of…
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In a large system-on-chip design we needed to integrate hardware accelerators and control them using software drivers. When errors or unexpected results occur we need…
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First of all an apology to the ladies and an assurance that I am not trying to be sexist in my choice of words in this article. I have used the terms brotherhood and craftsman…
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In this interview by Dave Prior, Vivek Angiras describes his great experience as a volunteer at Agile2015 — the Agile industry's premier event — which attracted more than 2,30…
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I am the conference chair for the Agile2016 conference to be held July 25-29 in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s my privilege to lead the team of highly respected Agile experts and prac…
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And why we’re all doing it wrong.
After reading an insanely long Wait but Why series looking into Elon Musk and Tesla, I realized that the entrepreneur extraordinaire has a li…
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Imagine a time long, long ago, when email marketing was at the cutting edge of digital. OK, fine, that was in the early 2000s. I was working in my first “real UX” job, and our…
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This photo of the 2015 Agile Alliance board of directors and 2016 directors-elect was taken at a face-to-face meeti…
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The Speedboat Retrospective is one of my favorite visualization techniques I use in retrospectives. The origin of this technique goes back to Luke Hohmann, who presented it as…
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‘Tis the season for ghosts, goblins, and cute children dressed up as princesses and vampires seeking treats. Halloween is the time to delight in all things creepy and crawly! …
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Watch Dave Prior's thought-provoking interview with Larry Maccherone, Director of Analytics and Research at AgileCraft. Larry is a thought leader in Lean, Agile, metrics, and …
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Does this sound familiar? We have someone asking the obvious question. “Why would we say we will do something we know we can’t accomplish?” When we hear these questions, too o…
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Building a minimum viable product (MVP) can help businesses get a working platform to market quickly. It helps validate product hypotheses and attract new users to your servic…
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January brought bad news for Agile-haters and those, like former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, who sneer at “firms with names like pieces of fruit.” Apple posted the biggest quarterl…
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This is the last part in the series “Trapped in Wagile”. In the kick-off article I outlined three fundamental characteristics of waterfall organizations. In subsequent article…
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I’m writing this as I fly home from the Agile2015 conference, or what Jake Calabrese rightfully calls “summer camp.” I headed into the week planning …
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Why don’t Agile and management get along? In a January poll of some 400 people working in many different firms where the practices known as Agile and Scrum are being implement…
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One of the biggest challenges of developing a digital product is accepting that your core development team may not be enough to get a complex product out the door quickly. Agi…
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In our latest experience report, Jorge Silva tells how he learned to eliminate the gap between pre-sales and engineering. Where he had worked previously, there wasn’t much tru…
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This year, the Agile Executive Forum (AEF) will be held on August 3rd at the Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) in Herndon, VA. For those senior leaders and executives wh…
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As many as 94% of organizations are practicing some form of agile according to the 9th annual State of Agile survey™, yet I have first-hand experience seeing countless organiz…
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Are you relatively new to Agile?
At Agile 2015 we’ve put together the Agile Boot Camp track just for you. Because such a large percentage of the conference attendees are parti…
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This is part three of the continuing series of articles. In the first article of this series, I outlined three fundamental characteristics of the waterfall system. In the prev…
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Our latest experience report, From Scrum to Kanban – A Team’s Journey, is by Aki Namioka of Marchex. Her team had been using Scrum for over two years. Like many folks, they ha…
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A Product Owner's best friend is Agile Principle #10:
Simplicity -- the art of maximizing the amount of work not done -- is essential.
If you are a product owner or a member o…
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The Agile20XX Conference thrives on community involvement. There are many ways that you can get involved in the conference. Of course, you can attend one of the nearly 250 ses…
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Recently I was asked to participate on a panel to discuss Continuous Integration (CI). So I spent a day doing some reading and researching to polish up on my knowledge around …
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Our latest experience report is by Robert “Jason” Kerney from Hunter Industries. Jason joined the mob programming team at Hunter over a year ago. I met Jason last year at Agil…
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Hello everyone, Paul Hammond here again, Conference Chair for the Agile2015 Conference.
Let me ask you a question. Have you ever wanted to sit down with an Agile luminar…
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Hello there. I am Paul Hammond, the Conference Chair for the Agile2015 Conference. It gives me great pleasure to announce the three amazing Agile2015 keynote speakers.
Collab…
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It’s no secret agile projects can fail, but do you know the reasons they fail and how to avoid them? I could tell you why I think they fail. Instead, let me share what nearly …
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In my previous article, I outlined three fundamental characteristics of waterfall systems. Phase-gates are the most distinguishable characteristic of a waterfall organization.…
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Some of you may recall that this is my first year serving on the board of the Agile Alliance and … OH MY … have I been busy. In my typical go-big-or-go-home style, I’ve taken …
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A fascinating recent study has shown that a single, toxic team member can create group team-wide dysfunction and breakdown.
We have all worked in teams where there is one “di…
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Choosing the right agile metric to measure agile success is really simple, right? I wish that were the case, but in reality, selecting the correct agile metric can be a little…
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Organizations that are attempting to transition to Agile demonstrate waterfall characteristics – residually or resurgently. Understanding these characteristics and learning to…
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I like the customer pyramid that David Bland proposed. Whenever I’m discussing an idea for a product with our potential clients, I tend to think in such terms. More often than…
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The Agile Alliance was a proud sponsor of Bosnia Agile Day 2014 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina last October. The one-day conference brought together Agile evangelists, le…
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Some of you may recall that I was nominated to the board of the Agile Alliance for the 2015 to 2017 term. Well, 2015 is upon us and I am officially on the job. This month, I …
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Our latest experience report is by Patkós Csaba from Syneto, a Romanian company known for its Storage OS System. Patkós tells about their four-year journey from a traditional …
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In our latest experience report, Tearing Down the Walls, Stephanie Savoia asks us to,
"Imagine a wall. Now imagine a developer creating code and throwing it over...[where] it …
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Let me introduce you to the Agile Experience Reports Program.
At Agile conferences, people have always talked about their Agile experiences. Those who presented on the Experi…
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The Conference Archive is a small application, written in Ruby, running on "the Cloud". I hope people attending Agile2012 check it out often after the conference is over, and …
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The Agile2012 conference is drawing near - if you can be in Texas in mid-August, consider attending!
Just about everyone in the Agile community, I suppose, knows at least per…
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The lack of interest, the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field.
— Alan Kay, inventor of Smalltalk, in a recent interview
One of my motivations for st…
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Welcome to the Agile Alliance's Archivist's blog.
The Agile Alliance website was created in early 2001 in the wake of the now famous Snowbird meeting and writing of the Agile…
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