AGILE AUTHORITY BLOG
Agile Transformation – What’s Involved
Considering taking on an Agile transformation for your enterprise? Warning – it is not for the cautious! There is an easy way – just rename your existing process to “Agile Waterfall”. Then enjoy many subsequent years of … (wait for it) … slow-to-market unimpressive products with poor business results, as your team’s esprit de corps nosedives amidst continuous frustration. Credit: codesqueeze.com “101 Ways to Know [...]
SAFe Portfolio Constructs – a Leadership View
As a portfolio or organizational leader, you may have wondered “How will SAFe change what we do?” One way of looking at this is to consider the constructs recommended by the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for the Portfolio level. For reference, here is a view of the SAFe 5.0 Portfolio configuration: Let’s briefly step through some of the important constructs that may cause [...]
Product Increment vs. Progress – Agile Anti-Pattern
As an experienced Agile leader and coach, I often run into the following situation. In my opinion, it represents the largest Agile anti-pattern in the product development world. Many teams focus on progress over the product increment. Progress and Component Teams Team A says, “We are agile. We are making good PROGRESS on our system.” Upon further investigation, Team A is comprised of team [...]
Going Agile is NOT the Goal of an Agile Transformation
“Going Agile” should never be the goal of any enterprise transformation. There, I said it. Some Agile transformations are analogous to someone telling you that everyone here in the US needs to start driving on the left side of the road. Why? We will get to our destination 16 seconds faster on average (time to market improvement). We will have less wrecks (better quality). Traffic [...]
Agile Documentation – A Healthy View
Agile Documentation - Just Shoot Me Now The year was 2007. A longtime friend of mine called and said she wanted to do lunch. She had some “exciting news”. At lunch, she sat down and immediately let me know that her company had finally decided to “go Agile”. My response: “Great! What do you think that means?” She contemplated my open question for 20 [...]
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