One of the biggest challenges when walking into a new agile engagement is deciding…
People are the most valuable assets a company has, just look at the likes of Uber or AirBnb that have huge valuations even though they do not own the physical assets used to provide their core services. Their value is attributed…
In a world that’s becoming more data driven, people are extremely focused on using real data to make better decisions.
The problem is that in the wash of different numbers you can look at, it’s easy to focus on the wrong things.
If you had asked me four months ago whether geographically distributed teams can work as efficiently and effectively as co-located teams I would have laughed at you. In my mind, geographical teams were the brain child of someone sitting high up in management who…
Fear of commitment is an institutional problem. It is an emotion that has been carefully nurtured by continued failure to meet expectations. I call it an institutional problem because it is the environment of the company that has created a situation where you are both unable to meet those expectations and…
As agile has been adopted by more and more companies as their mainstream delivery approach, it has become clear that just doing agile is not enough.
Many companies are disappointed with the outcomes they see by adopting agile. Often this happens because…
In my previous post I discussed why we should act more like Superforecasters when estimating. I suggested that we should leverage our historical performance and communicate estimates as a range and confidence level instead of a simple delivery date. Here…
In my last post I wrote about Defining an Agile delivery plan with the OODA Loop. The approach I outlined allows you to create better plans, however from my experience it comes with a trapdoor. Because of how well some teams feel about the…
