Up to this point in this series on the 12 failure modes in agile transformation, I’ve covered topics around failure in leadership , failure in workflow and failure in congruency. These last three failure modes concern the overall sense of…
Recently I experienced what was one of the saddest moments of my career when, while re-watching “Return of the Jedi” for the 116th time, I realized I was coaching a company that was basically the Empire. Surely you remember the movie's…
A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job -- including to automatically email his wife and make himself a latte.. Source: A programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job -- including to…
Over the past few months, I've read a few books on marketing. But I've also taken a handful of video training courses on marketing and have been listening to some enjoyable podcasts on the subject. Back when I was in…
At a large big room planning (BRP) event run by one of our customers recently, between 400 and 500 people spent two days planning their next 12 weeks of work. The stakes were high, as the health care product they…
Agile at scale essentially boils down to this: Agile teams working with the business to deliver value to market fast and predictably. Though the principles of Agile development — cadence, collaboration, synchronization, etc. — remain the same, planning and delivery…
We are thrilled to announce the availability of Rally’s capacity planning capability — built for the program and portfolio level of enterprise scale Agile. With the new Capacity Planning page in the Rally platform, strategic planners can rapidly translate their…
The Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit is taking place this week. It will be my fourth year attending the summit and each year I’m reminded of how confusing portfolio management can be — especially to agilists. Sadly, this confusion…
Humans typically crawl before we learn to walk, and walk before we learn to run. But sometimes what we call running is really more like a walk, and sometimes when we’re in a real hurry we’ve been known to skip…
Do you want to understand Kanban for software development? The getKanban board game is the fastest and most effective way to get a quick insight in Kanban. The getKanban Board Game is a board game like Monopoly but instead of…