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Agile
Make Stories Small When You Have “Wicked” Problems
If you read my Three Alternatives to Making Smaller Stories, you noticed one thing. In each of these examples, the…
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Agile
Three Alternatives for Making Smaller Stories
When I was in Israel a couple of weeks ago teaching workshops, one of the big problems people had was…
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Software Development
Five Tips for Tactical Management
Sometimes, you just need to get on with the work. You need to give yourself some breathing room so you…
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Agile
Is Your Culture Working the Way You Think it Is?
Long ago, I was a project manager and senior engineer for a company undergoing a Change Transformation. You know the…
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Agile
Small Internal Releases Lead to Happy Customers
If you saw Large Program? Release More Often, you might have noted that I said, You want to release all…
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Agile
Large Program? Release More Often
I’m working on the release planning chapter for Agile and Lean Program Management: Collaborating Across the Organization. There are many…
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Agile
Six Tips for Interviewing Scrum Masters, Part 2
Now that you know what you expect from your Scrum Master’s job (the deliverables), and you know the essential and…
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Agile
Six Tips for Interviewing Scrum Masters, Part 1
People want to know the “secret sauce” for hiring Scrum Masters and agile coaches. I wish it was easy to…
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Agile
Creating a Succession Plan for Your Technical Team
We often think about a succession plan for managers. But, if you’re not thinking about a succession plan for your…
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