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 …
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 …
Problem Solved! Fixing Agile Metrics in Jira
If you’ve read my blog in the past, you know that one of my favorite agile metrics – if not my outright …
Overcoming Enterprise Agile PITFALLs
In addition to #AgileDevOpsCon, I recently spoke at the #MileHighAgile conference in Denver where I talked about overcoming PITFALLs in your enterprise …
Agile+DevOps West 2019
A huge thank you to everyone who attended my agile and lean workshop session today! I was happy that so many folks …
AgileDevOpsCon 2018 Session
Thanks to everyone who came to my workshop at Agile + DevOps 2018 (#AgileDevOpsCon) today! I’ve posted up the link to my presentation …
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 …