Agile Metrics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Recently, I worked with some teams and I was checking out their agile metrics. Since they were doing time-boxed Waterfall (ugh), the …
Why SAFe Won’t Solve Your Problems
One of the curious pastimes I’ve seen lately is SAFe®-bashing. It seems like everyone on LinkedIn these days has some “hot take” …
Innovation Incubators and Agile
In today’s complex and ever-changing world, we sometimes have to ask ourselves what kinds of opportunities is agile best suited to enable. …
What’s an Agile Defect?
One question that should get tossed around by teams and coaches alike is “What is a defect?” It’s a hard question to …
When a Good Agile Transformation Goes Bad
I was recently looking at Digital.ai’s State of Agile report and many companies are still choosing to adopt agile to help deliver …
Agile Failures: 3 Common Missteps That Kill Transformations – Part 2
In my previous post, I talked about the main agile failures I see with failed transformations, which is thinking that the process …
Agile Failures: 3 Common Missteps That Kill Transformations – Part 1
Remember when you were in school and you were taught something – math, say – and you learned a way of solving …
Management Styles That Work
I’ve been binge-watching a show – Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD – and noticed something quite peculiar. The management techniques of the leaders of the …
Planning Poker: Knowing When to Fold
I’ve been working in agile for almost twenty years now in one way or another (developer, manager, or coach) and there’s one …
What I Learned About Management From Online Gaming
Before the advent of the World Wide Web and the multiplayer games like EverQuest and World of Warcraft, there was an online …