We are often asked what makes a Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) coach effective. The features to look for in a DAD coach include: People skills. First and foremost, effective DAD coaches need solid people skills. They need to be prepared to work…
In January, I’ll be speaking at two events in London and Brussels: Scaling Agile for the Enterprise Consortium in Belgium on January 22 In Belgium, I’ll deliver the keynote where I’ll focus on the Principles of Lean-Agile Leadership which provides a…
Have you been in a meeting lately where people were focused on their laptops, interrupting each other, distracted, or otherwise behaving badly? In Jean Tabaka’s “Leading Collaborative Meetings” class, Jean talks about the importance of working agreements to create the…
We know developers love JIRA. That’s why over 25,000 teams already use JIRA to track work. Now it’s time to get your service desk into the mix. JIRA already empowers your developers to build great software. Similarly, JIRA Service Desk…
The following was originally published in Mike Cohn's monthly newsletter. If you like what you're reading, sign up to have this content delivered to your inbox weeks before it's posted on the blog, here. A product owner hands 10 story…
In working towards the next release of SAFe (V4.0, scheduled for release in August of 2015), we’ve been extracting and refining the immutable Lean-Agile principles on which SAFe is based. In so doing we’ll be able to make Principles and…
How can a team of 65 developers build and rapidly ship a high-quality product with only six QA engineers? Hosted by Penny Wyatt, leader of the JIRA QA team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRP29wFqu20
For some time now we’ve seen a growing demand for context and culture-specific instances of the Framework, especially for highly complex organizations who are looking for a scalable and sustainable solution to long-term adoption of SAFe. As we’ve learned, when…
After every Agile conference, agilists return back to work with tons of new ideas. They get excited about these new ideas and would be looking forward to roll them out sooner than later. However, based on my past experiences, I…
Everyone knows you need more than a whiteboard and stickies to practice Agile at scale. But the tool you use isn’t the only thing that matters: as Dean has said, “A fool with a tool is still a fool.” The…