4: If you care… If you care about the outcome… the key results… the goal… the objective. To care is to be attentive… inattention to
The Four ‘If’s that Make Lean Agile Worthwhile, Part IV
3: If you stay… See things through… stay for a while… don’t quit too early… transformation to Lean Agile takes time. Mindset / paradigm shift
The Four ‘If’s that Make Lean Agile Worthwhile, Part III
2: If you try… If you have and idea, try it out! What’s the benefit hypothesis of your idea?… then design it… build part of
The Four ‘If’s that Make Lean Agile Worthwhile, Part II
1: If you learn… Learn fast; fast feedback comes to mind. By collaborating, we learn. The 3Cs: Card. Conversation. Confirmation. We learn as we go
The Four ‘If’s that Make Lean Agile Worthwhile
In this series … we will explore the four ‘If’s that make Lean Agile worthwhile… To be continued…
Technical Agility
One of SAFe’s competencies is ‘Team and Technical Agility’. The basis for ‘Team Agility’ is Scrum / Kanban. The basis for ‘Technical Agility’ is eXtreme
Student and Coaches
This day (Friday, August 9) is unique … two coaches for my daughter for her preparation to tomorrow’s recital; I find their coaching very apt
Fog of Uncertainty
This year, my family and I had encountered several heavy storms whilst in the car driving on a highway… visibility was extremely poor … 25
Team Dynamics
Team dynamics are the unconscious, psychological forces that influence the direction of a team’s behaviour and the achievement of their goals. Scrum provides teams an environment within which
What is Sprint Backlog
The Sprint Backlog is all of the work that the team identifies as necessary to meet the sprint goal.
Organize Around the Flow of Value
Let’s start at the Portfolio level Organizing the Portfolio around the flow of value requires the enterprise to: Focus on achieving business outcomes rather than
Stories with Tasks with Hours
Typical question I get is this: is it okay to put tasks on stories? Answer: yes … caveat: just so to understand the story better.
Empirical Management
Let’s start with this statement: ‘There is no place for hands-off management in scrum’. To stay on top of the project and make decisions, Management
Proverb on Dependencies and Risks
‘A danger foreseen is half-avoided’ — Cheyenne proverb One of the best characteristics of a product manager and product owner is the ability to ‘look
Fig Tree Bears Fruits
We have a fig tree at home. It is rooted / grounded very well… got a lot of branches and leaves… it is healthy… and
Purpose is More Powerful than Object
If your objective is to buy a million-dollar house (or a house price that is a ‘stretch’ for you)…then the house is the object… but
Iteration Goal and Commitment
A team must be willing to commit to a goal, say an iteration goal. Commitment is one of the five core values of Scrum. Scrum
Is Scrum for You?
If you are one of those who need to wrestle working systems from the complexity of emerging requirements and unstable technology, then yes, Scrum is
WBS Out, Roadmap In
If you are still using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), then you still have the waterfall mindset: task driven. Lean Agile mindset, however, is Value
Value Stream in a Nutshell
Basically, a Value Stream shows the sequence of work … the sequence of steps used to deliver value to the customer — from start to
Role and Responsibility
‘Man has role and responsibility, not power’ — Tuscarora proverb Add this to your Lean Agile mindset!
Conversation
‘Conversation’ is a very important aspect of Agile. A quote caught my attention regarding ‘Conversation.’ ‘Conversation was never begun at once, or in a hurried
A Proverb for Product Managers
‘He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone’ — Seneca proverb Product Managers, don’t do things alone; don’t do things in
SAFe’s new course, LPM
Lean Portfolio Management ((LPM) is out … its general availability to the public was in fact July 8th. This course, Lean Portfolio Management ((LPM), aligns
A Long Time Ago, Part IV
As we develop the software , we will run into issues … we add these issues to our ‘to do list’…preferably to the current sprint
