Home Remedies for Allergies to Enterprise Agile and Scrum Masters
After 5 large scale transformations and a dozen years of leading enterprise agile at Intuit, Symantec, and Paypal, I have heard my share of reasons why agile at scale won’t […]
You can do better than the Spotify Model
Let’s put aside the “bubblegum and unicorns” of the Spotify Engineering Culture videos and talk about what doesn’t quite work at Spotify and how we’re trying to solve it. This […]
I love the smell of DATA in the morning (Getting started with Agile Data Science)
This session introduces the concepts behind data science and offers numerous easy wins with practical applications to any software development process.
Enterprise Agility – A Practical De-Mystification
Agile is well understood and practiced in the R&D units of many enterprises. As the agile approach yields success stories in R&D, other parts of an enterprise have become interested […]
Be Agile. Scale Up. Stay Lean.
Scrum, XP, Kanban and related methods have been proven to provide step changes in productivity and quality for software teams. However, these methods do not have the native constructs necessary […]
The Executives Step-by-Step Guide to Leading Large-Scale Agile Transformation
A few years ago everyone wanted to know how to convince their executives to go agile. Today’s executives are asking their teams how they’ll get them there. While we have […]
Performance Reviews that don’t Suck
Many in the agile community suggest abandoning performance reviews, but few offer suggestions for alternatives. A large percentage of software developers work in an enterprise environment where performance reviews are […]
How *Better, Faster, Cheaper* Happens – The Economics of Enterprise Agility
*Better, Faster, Cheaper* – business guys want all that Agile pixie dust. But, they don’t really know what Agility is about and how the “magic” happens. They don’t know how […]
Technical Debt: OK, It’s Bad. Now What Do We Do About It?
This Agile2016 session and accompanying webinar explores technical debt and identifies some things you can do to address it. Inspired by work done on the Technical Debt Initiative.
Stop Using Agile with Waterfall Goals: Goal Agility with OKR (Objectives and Key Results)
Although we have been using Agile mindset and processes tactically, when it comes to strategy and goal setting the waterfall command&control mindset is still the norm. Most organizations are still […]
Why Is Agile Failing in Large Enterprises and What You Can Do About It
Agile works… we get it. You don’t have to sell people on the underlying principles anymore. Agile has gone mainstream. That said, many large scale agile transformations efforts are struggling. […]
Scaling Scrum using Object Oriented Architecture
Alex Brown and Jeff Sutherland will outline an object-oriented model for scaling Scrum across the entire business enterprise. A modular approach allows the system to function using different specific solutions […]
