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Agile Transformation: Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 4
“What should I measure???” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Too often, managers measure people as individuals. (Traditional measurements...
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Agile Transformation: More Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 5
I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on...
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Agile Transformation is a Journey, Part 6
Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good...
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Resisting Change or Resisting a Pushed Solution
I spoke with an aspiring coach earlier this week. He asked me if people I ever coached were “resistant.” I don’t label people as “resistant.” If I need to label them, I think about this term, “People...
View ArticleHow Agile Changes Testing, Part 4
In Part 1, I discussed the agile project system. In Part 2, I discussed the tester’s job in agile. In Part 3, I discussed expectations about documentation (which is what the original question was on...
View ArticleWhen is Agile Wrong for You?
People often ask me, “When is agile right or not right for a project?” I’ve said before that if the team wants to go agile, that’s great. If the team doesn’t, don’t use agile. That answer is...
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Defining “Scaling” Agile, Part 6: Creating the Agile Organization
We might start to think about agile approaches as a project change. However, if you want to “scale” agile, the entire culture changes. Here is a list of the series and how everything changes the...
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Discussing Teamwork and Measures on Agile for Humans
Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. We had a blast. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. One of...
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Agile Transformation: Practice Change, Part 2
Agile culture is about the ability to change. (You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.) We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something...
View ArticleAgile Transformation: See Your System and Culture, Part 3
If you read my scaling agile series, you can see that becoming an agile organization requires seeing your organization as a system with a culture. You can start with teams, move to programs and the...
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Agile Transformation: Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 4
“What should I measure???” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Too often, managers measure people as individuals. (Traditional measurements...
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Agile Transformation: More Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 5
I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on...
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Agile Transformation is a Journey, Part 6
Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good...
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Resisting Change or Resisting a Pushed Solution
I spoke with an aspiring coach earlier this week. He asked me if people I ever coached were “resistant.” I don’t label people as “resistant.” If I need to label them, I think about this term, “People...
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Why Aren’t We Better at XP (or Almost Anything)? “Stop Making It Harder”
There was a Twitter discussion about XP not having crossed the chasm. Someone Lula Rodrigues posted this wonderful Kent Beck talk about that here:...
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Write and Publish More with the May 2022 Write Stuff Writing Bundle
Do you want to write and publish more? If so, take a look at the Write Stuff 2022 story bundle. Nine books plus one class equals ten opportunities to raise your writing and publishing abilities to the...
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Why Car Roadmaps Are Not the Same as Product Roadmaps, Part 1
Several of my clients have various roadmap problems. They want a single product roadmap to serve all these purposes: Focus the team's work for this specific product for the short term. That includes...
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Choose How to Visualize Your Product Roadmap for a Team’s Product Focus, Part 2
As I said in Part 1, teams use backlogs and roadmaps to know what's now and what's next. Teams use backlogs for the day-to-day tactical decisions. And when teams can see what's next, they can keep the...
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Help Your Customers React the Way You Want with These Roadmap Options, Part 3
In Part 1, I said that customers need a different kind of roadmap than teams do. Teams need the focusing details now and a way to look forward. But, depending on where your product is in the market,...
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What Senior Managers Want & Need from Roadmaps: Predictability and Options,...
In Part 1, I said that product roadmaps are not like car roadmaps. But even car roadmaps showed places of interest—options—for the driver and passengers. If I stretch that analogy a little, managers...
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