Nexus
Scaling Scrum with Nexus and Kanban
Everybody wants to Scale Scrum So you have a couple of Scrum Teams that are working in adjacent areas and you’re starting to face some
Lean Startup
Advanced Scrum Product Ownership – Riding Dinosaurs
What does Scrum Product Ownership have to do with Dinosaurs?
We typically say that Scrum Masters get to herd cats. But Scrum Product Owners actually need to learn how to ride a Dinosaur! With the click-bate established, what does that even mean?
Agile
Guidelines for Common sense ☺
Recently in retrospectives of one of the scrum teams, one team member had some strong opinions about guidelines that were defined for code reviews. Besides what to review and how to review, the guidelines also had some instructions on who should review which features/stories’ code. He strongly felt that the reviewers for his stories didn’t add much value, the code reviews waited longer for feedback, and the reviewer didn’t seem to have much context, so didn’t add much value. He felt that his design reviewers or his colleagues working on the same story should have been the peer reviewers!
Agile
Scaling Agile Reading List
Scaling Agile Reading List Dave Snowden “Put brutally SAFe Implementation Roadmap – Scaled Agile Framework Implementing – Scaled Agile Framework portfolio+kanban Here Be Dragons –
Agile
COVID-19 and Agile
A fresh perspective on uncertainty, complexity, empiricism, and flow and what to do about it.
The COVID-19 pandemic gives us plenty of opportunities to think about uncertainty, and complexity, and how to deal with those using Empiricism.
Agile Leadership
The Scrum Master as an Agile Leader
The Scrum Master’s role has become one of the most important and challenging roles in modern organizations since they act as the main interface between top management and the teams that actually produce and deliver the company’s value to the customer.
Agile
Lean/Kanban approach to Teams
To Team or not to Team?
If you look at the definition of Kanban or Lean, you wouldn’t find teams anywhere there.
If you look at the Agile Manifesto, you can find “The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams”
Scrum is quite clear about the topic
Scaled Agile Framework
Improving SAFe thru Professional Scrum
SAFe includes Scrum – so how come many Scrum practitioners and thought leaders consider it unsafe?
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe™) is one of the most popular approaches to applying agile at scale out there. SAFe’s perspective is that “Nothing beats an Agile Team” and it doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel or even innovate too much when it comes to the Team level. It takes advantage of established frameworks and techniques that work well – Scrum being the first and foremost of those.
Agile Marketing
SAFe for Agile Marketing Guidance Article
Scaling Agile Marketing With SAFe – Overview
More and more Marketing organizations are realizing today that they need to be faster, more flexible/responsive, and more collaborative, in order to have a real impact on the business they’re supporting. More and more CMOs are looking at Agile Marketing as the way to modernize their organization.
Inspired by Agile Development, Agile Marketing describes a mindset of continuous learning and validation, customer-focused collaboration across functional silos, adaptive and iterative campaigns, and more responsive/continuous planning. Similar to development organizations, Agile Marketing teams use techniques such as Scrum to work in an iterative cadence, and such as Kanban to visualize and improve the flow of work.
Kanban
Kanban Service Level Expectations and how to use them in Scrum
One of the new concepts we introduce in the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams is the Service Level Expectation, defined as:
An SLE forecasts how long it should take a given item to flow from start to finish within your workflow. The SLE itself has two parts: a period of elapsed days and a probability associated with that period (e.g., “85% of work items will be finished in 8 days or less” which can also be stated as “8 days with 85% confidence/probability”).
