Three Agile Strategies That Will Make A Strong Impact
These three agile strategies address the core challenges that agile is addressing. They are based on the Kanban Thinking Impacts of Flow, Value and Potential.
Agile Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted On The Young
In 1997, Mary Schmich published a hypothetical graduation speech and encouraged readers to try it themselves. What agile advice might be given in such a speech?
The Only Useful Icebreaker Activity Anyone May Ever Need
Icebreaker activities may be contrived, awkward, irrelevant. However, a good icebreaker can be useful, and I regularly use the same one in different workshops.
The Best Agile Accounting Approach To CapEx and OpEx
What is the best way of accounting for costs as different types of expenditure for agile development teams? This is the best answer.
The Ultimate X-Matrix For Your Agile Transformation Is Here
A description of an X-Matrix from an agile transformation I have recently been involved in, and which is something I can publish with some minor tweaking.
How to Measure the Predictability of Agile
This post follows up on a Twitter thread I posted in November exploring ways of measuring the predictability of teams. I also discussed some of these ideas in a Drunk Agile episode. When I begin working with an organisation on the agile transformation, an early conversation is around successful outcomes. My work on Strategy Deployment is all about answering the …
OKRs and Kanban – Working Perfectly Together
I have previously posted separately about Strategy Deployment and OKRs and Kanban. This is a guest post by Matt Roberts on OKRs and Kanban that brings the two together. With a degree of confidence, I am going to assume that you know what Objective and Key Results or OKRs are. As a goal-setting framework, it has become a favourite amongst …
The Agile Transformation Conundrum
I’ve been thinking recently about what it means to go through an Agile Transformation. The usual interpretation I find is that its a Transformation to using Agile approaches (or doing Agile), or if I’m being generous to being Agile. At first glance, that seems wrong to me for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it implies that the Transformation has an …
Good Agile/Bad Agile: The Difference and Why It Matters
This post is an unapologetic riff on Richard Rumelt’s book Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters. The book is a wonderful analysis of what makes a good strategy and how successful organisations use strategy effectively. I found that it reinforced my notion that Agility is a Strategy and so this is also a way to help me organise …
Trains, Shopping and the Risk of Release Dates
This is a final post originally published on the Rally Blog which I am reposting here to keep an archived copy. I live in Brighton, on the south coast of the UK, about 50 miles from London. This means that I regularly catch the train for meetings or engagements “in town”. When making the journey, I always look at the timetable. Trains …