Category Archives: Agile Management
Put It On the Team
Do you want to have more effective daily stand-ups? Do you want to have the planning meetings flow better and increase the value of these meetings? Do you want to see continuous improvement flow from your retrospectives? If your answer is … Continue reading
Forecast Says: Your Forecast is History
You may have a well-articulated, strategic roadmap BUT how, when and what value you deliver against that roadmap can fluctuate. A benefit of iterative delivery and deliberate learning cycles is that product teams can tweak or radically change output based … Continue reading
Behaviors and Culture Can Impair Creating Good Product
When we think culture, we often think about nationality and/or regional cultures. Culture is often a dinner discussion with my wife and friends; it’s great to reflect upon how our upbringing, surroundings, and maybe even our genetics drive our work … Continue reading
Agile and Beyond: A Right-Sized, Value-Rich Conference
VersionOne was proud to sponsor and exhibit at the 4th Annual Agile and Beyond conference on Saturday, March 9th in Dearborn, Michigan. We talked with many project managers, developers, business analysts and directors about their past, current or future agile … Continue reading
The Realization of Where We Are With Agile
A guest post from Alex Adamopoulos, CEO of Emergn Limited In recent weeks I have been involved in or privy to conversations with four global financial services companies, a research and publishing company and an airline all talking on the topic … Continue reading
Agile Capacity Calculation – Part 2 of 2
In the first part of this two-part blog, I presented two methods for agile capacity calculation: Method 1: Capacity is not required to be estimated or calculated. This is an idealized and the simplest method. Method 2: Capacity is only … Continue reading
Rightsourcing Organizational Agility
Guest post from George Schlitz, BigVisible Co-Founder & Coach In today’s complex business environment, people and teams can be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of change they face. If priorities ever seem clear, they quickly shift in response to new competition, … Continue reading
What Happens When the CEO is the Product Owner and Part-Time Developer on the ‘The Team?’
I recently visited with a client where the CEO and founder of the company is also an active part-time developer on the Dev Team. This provides an interesting dynamic that has some advantages but also some genuine risk. This company is … Continue reading
Managing the Middle Manager Conundrum
Attending Agile 2012 and meeting many practitioners and soon-to-be practitioners of agile development was an awesome experience. The opportunity to network and talk shop with a wide range of individuals cannot be duplicated. Many of the conversations re-opened an age … Continue reading
Agile Approach to Problems Found While Testing “In Sprint” Stories (Part 2 of 2)
Earlier I outlined what the process looks like for a traditional software tester, and some of the problems it can cause. Today let’s look at how different that would look in an agile development environment and what it can do … Continue reading