This two day Masterclass commences with an introduction to the foundation and history of the Agile movement. It then looks at common practices and frameworks used by teams including Scrum, Kanban, Lean Start-up and XP. Day two drills into project…
I will explain this through a simple example of how culture gets created in organizations.The team is conducting a retrospective. They capture all the good, bad and ugly items on post-its and capture the action items as well. However, the…
Authored the following article for Cutter Consortium as part of their Agile advisory series. In this article, some analysis has been done detailing pros/cons of setting up centralized Agile excellence or group to promote Agile as part of Agile transformation…
Recently I penned a guest post for Version One about the why people behave in the way they do and how to change them ? Agile is not about practicing Scrum, XP or Kanban. It is a mindset that one…
In the recent times the following ideas/buzzwords are getting filled with the void of struggling, adolescent Agile 1. Holacracy : Read more here from Zappos example. 2. Real Options Theory : Read more here 3. For scaling Agile: SAFe(Scaled Agile…
It’s common to see people point fingers and play the blame game after a project fails. These blame games not only hurt the team members but also impact their morale as well. Is there a way to avoid these hurtful…
I have recently seen the SAFe framework criticized by the Scrum founder as well as the Kanban founder (see "unSAFEe at Any Speed" and "Kanban -- The Anti-SAFe for Almost a Decade Already"). Method wars are not new, however, and…
One of my friends is a very successful tennis coach, however, he sends his kids to a different coach. This was interesting, and I asked him why can’t he teach his kids. His response didn’t surprise me at all. He…
I had the privilege to Co-Author my first book “Who is Agile in Australia and New Zealand” with Renee and Sunish . This book is available for purchase from here This book is a collection of interviews with passionate Australia…
The statistics I have seen recently give me a euphoric feeling about the pace of Agile adoption. However, I feel that most of the so-called "Agile projects" are just the "water-Scrum-fall," which no one is willing to admit. I…