Achieving system optimisation goals in LeSS Large-Scale Scrum(LeSS) has incorporated deep Systems Thinking ideas in its recommendations. Whether it’s the way Sprint Review is done or the recommendations around team co-ordination, LeSS recommends system optimisation over local. In this short…
This post is cross-posted from the Odd-e page at their blog Decouple Line Organization from Requirement Area After almost 10 years, I got chance again to work on a LeSS Huge adoption. Facing different challenges and reflecting on my experience…
Interview with Venkatesh Krishnamurthy in CA DevOPs Perspectives. First published in DevOps Perspectives, edition 4 “In this age of agile development, there’s an uncomfortable reality that needs to be acknowledged and that is that large scale development is still with…
Every Sprint in Scaled Professional Scrum requires a completed, ready to ship increment of functionality. The ubiquitous “definition of done” spells out the characteristics of such an increment. The end result should include software that has: Presence of valuable functionality for…
By changing the inner workings from a project perspective to a product perspective Agfa Healthcare established a less complicated process using a single backlog for the entire organisation. Main advice is to try to avoid setting up silos where they…
I will be conducting a Nexus workshop in Boston on November 17-18, with Richard Hundhausen and Rob Maher, based on the Nexus Guide. Of interest to many, SDK, API architectures, and remediation Scrumbles, and DevOps. Many Scrum teams deliver a “done”, potentially shippable increment…
Question: Which of these 7 things are eating your budget? Dependencies that block. Forces beyond your control are wagging your work. Risks that explode. External or internal, visible or not, you didn’t account for these. Unrealistic plans. Your roadmap may…
Rally customers have always been front and center at RallyON conferences — filling the audience and the speaking agenda with their experiences, knowledge, and ideas. But at this year's RallyON 2015 conference, our customers were so engaged they nearly blew up the…
This post is cross-posted from the Gosei page at their blog Scaling Agility or Bureaucracy There are two very different strategies in adopting Agile in a large organisation, horizontal or vertical. In other words, you may take one product first…
A Perspective on DevOps from SAFe, IBM and Telstra Hi everyone, Alex just participated in a webinar hosted by IBM that provides SAFe, IBM and customer implementation perspectives on DevOps. Other participants include: Tony Christensen, GM/Agile Competency Lead, Telstra Amy…