No Resolutions, Please
As I sat with my strong-willed 5-year-old on Christmas Eve, she prepared to write a letter to leave out for Santa Claus. “What should I write?” she asked me, this being the first year she could...
View ArticleMaking Release Retrospectives Strategic and Effective: Part 2
In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series, I presented the case for tying release retrospectives with strategic objectives and strategic metric, and outlined a 5-step process for defining strategic...
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Words Mean Things – Efficient and Effective
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things! - Peter Drucker As we continue to explore words and their impact on conversations and behaviors, I would be remiss if I didn’t...
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The Agile Coach on Failure
They say the best way to learn is sometimes through failure. I couldn’t agree more. Now you may be thinking, “Yeah, that sounds nice, but my boss doesn’t like failure. And I don’t like getting called...
View ArticleValuable Agile Retrospectives: How to Do Them?
Guest post from Ben Linders, Netherlands-based Sr. Consultant, InfoQ editor and bilingual (Dutch & English) blogger At the end of an iteration, typically two meetings are held: The sprint review...
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Why Your Organization Struggles with Agile
It’s the basics that are killing your organization’s Agile effectiveness. You used to practice them, but then got sloppy. Or you never really learned to practice them that well before the need to scale...
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It Isn’t Agile; It Is Life!
One of the things I like to start with when introducing agile development is the quick application of agile development to life. I ask the question: “Did you plan today six months ago? Did you plan...
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Is DevOps a People Problem AND a Technical Problem?
Over the past few years, I’ve become more familiar with the works of Jerry Weinberg. One of his best is a book called Secrets of Consulting, which I highly recommend to all those who give advice for a...
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The Critical Aspect of DevOps You’re Overlooking
DevOps tends to be viewed through a technical lens, but the people aspect is what will dictate your success or failure. So, how are the people challenges of DevOps more important than the technical...
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10 Agile Quotes From The World’s Most Brilliant Minds
Truly embracing agile can be a very hard task; agile practices are mostly learned and experienced, not something that you can easily glean from a book or article. But if you’re in search for valuable...
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Measuring What Counts: Introducing the Better, Faster, Cheaper, Happier...
At Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) we have been involved in many agile adoptions ranging in size from single teams to entire IT development organizations. The single biggest problem we see is...
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Measuring Agile Success?!?#?
About six months ago, I wrote a blog post called Top 10 Tips for Measuring Agile Success, and the reality is that it wasn’t necessary a set of tips as it was a blog about the to ten ways people...
View ArticleNo Resolutions, Please
As I sat with my strong-willed 5-year-old on Christmas Eve, she prepared to write a letter to leave out for Santa Claus. “What should I write?” she asked me, this being the first year she could...
View ArticleMaking Release Retrospectives Strategic and Effective: Part 2
In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series, I presented the case for tying release retrospectives with strategic objectives and strategic metric, and outlined a 5-step process for defining strategic...
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So…when does the healing begin?
Many people have commented on the statement that Kent Beck made in Snowbird around his purpose for the meeting. I wasn’t there of course, so I am most likely paraphrasing, but the generally accepted...
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