Stuck in the Middle with You: Beyond the Product Team
Virtually every organization of size is amid a Digital Transformation effort. Most are focused on technology. The shift to product is not an I.T. initiative – it’s an undertaking that […]
Agile at Engineering: how to develop physical products in large organizations
Is it possible to apply an Agile approach in large organization which are developing physical Product? Agile is becoming more and more popular in many industries outside the IT where […]
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Acronyms feel like the language of the internet. l33tspeak aside, we’ve gotten used to character limitations, abbreviations, and quick responses due to FOMO so we write and speak in ways […]
Agile Accessibility for Good – Sustainable Accessibility
Agile software development has become mainstream and it is a rare organization that is notpracticing agile somewhere in the organization. Standard agile development practices are wellestablished and processes are well […]
Cooking with the Wrong Ingredients: Why your educational design choices matter
Have you ever attended a training event where content didn’t exactly “line up”? Imagine listening to an instructor where they fly through lots of slides, and follow that up with […]
The Undercover Scrum Master Returns
Coaches can inadvertently encourage teams to cut corners and avoid investing in the long-term health of the product. By using a better metaphor and understanding of a codebase’s health you […]
Tales of Dojo Coaching – Insights for All
In the Agile space, do you ever wonder why we use words such as “transformation” and “journey”? It’s because it’s really freaking hard. As an Agile coach, there are days […]
Not The Same Old Retrospective Panel!
The world has changed. Agile software development has evolved, agility has taken center stage, and Agile Retrospectives are no longer a novel idea. Along with so much else, Retrospectives have […]
Zero-Downtime Data Migrations – Mastering Continuous Deployment
Imagine deploying code to production several times a day to a system that processes millions of dollars in payments per year with minimal outages. Achieving this is no small task. […]
Boundaries Aren’t a Bad Thing! 6 Techniques for Collaborating Across Boundaries
You might have noticed both at work and in the wider world that when times are tough, our natural tendency is to focus on what divides us. Boundary lines are […]
The Big Agile Conference turns 20: Why did we make it? What should it become?
Marking the 20th anniversary! The first “big agile” conference was in 2003. Unusual for that moment, it aimed to include all job titles in all methodologies, “big tent” style. Also […]
The Best Agile Metrics – Everything Else Sucks!!!
Look, you need metrics for your agile organization, #amiright? In the immortal words of Peter Drucker, If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. So, you need to measure […]