Organizational agility through intersecting business and technology
Happy Mapping Monday! Today’s #mappingmondays video covers one of Simon Wardley’s Doctrines – “Use Appropriate Methods”. It’s a quick dive into how and when to use different methods. As always, the links in the video are below, and a full transcript is included below the video. And If you’re interested in finding out how to…
Happy Friday! This week I started a new series around Mapping and Strategy and I’m excited to announce the start of a second series I’m calling #fasterfridays. FASTER is an acronym for a method I developed to help organizations deliver faster (it stands for: Form, Align, Sequence, Test, Execute, Realize). The heart of it is…
(Alternate Subtitle: How the heck do you do estimation and forecasting in Kanban?) One of the biggest changes for many team who are adopting agile is in the way they slice, track and measure their work. They learn about “User Stories” which are sized using “Story Points”. The team adds up the number of Story…
In my recent post on root cause analysis and the 5-Why’s Lisa Crispin wondered if they could be used in breaking down user stories, too: Are the 5 whys only for root cause analysis? Can they be used to find out the purpose of a new user story or theme? There are many ways to…
This week, we’re working with a team in Atlanta, and we did an exercise today where the students went through problems they were having, and then the issues which underlie those problems. One of the interesting things was how often the underlying "issues" weren’t issues at all because they weren’t going deep enough. As an…
This afternoon at Agile 2010 I ran a session called Technically Distributed: Tips and Techniques for Distributed Teams (slides are at the end of this post). While I gave information about some of the tools I’ve used for teams, I think the key revelations came from two exercises we did. In the first, the teams…
Recently, D. André Dhondt posted to the Agile Developer Skills mailing list that he was stepping down from leading the group. The project, for those not familiar, was working to catalog the skills an agile developer would need, and provide roadmaps and guideposts to help grow people working with agile methods. There’s more information on…
Yesterday at the XP2010 conference in Trondheim, Norway I gave a talk on Growing and Fostering Software Craftsmanship. The session was recorded by the conference, but I also recorded using my Flip camera. I put my video online, as well as the slides, and I’m hoping to also be able to post the conference video…
Post Agile. I first heard the term several weeks ago in Chicago. It was used to define companies who had started up from 2005 onward. Companies who had been versed in the Agile Manifesto, who understood Lean Principles, to whom agile was second nature. These are companies doing Scrum – Daily Standups, Product Backlogs, Scrum…
There’s been a lot of great posts around the ‘net since my last post on Certification. Some notable ones include Ron Jeffries, George Dinwiddie’s and Chet Hendrickson. In Chet’s post, he asks the following question: The CSD is not a panacea; it is one more arrow in our quiver. When you get done mocking it,…