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Agile
Question for self-organizing teams
Try this thought experiment. You are a software development manager. You learn about agile and you think it is good.…
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Software Development
On programming in the summer
In the summer my training and consulting business gets quiet. That allows me to take some holiday and to pursue…
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Software Development
Iterative or Incremental?
Hopefully most of my readers have noticed by now that I regularly stray from the Agile Gospel, or rather, I…
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Software Development
The Prolonged Death Spiral Business Model
I recent message from a friend tells me he is putting on his parachute. He can’t take it anymore. He’s…
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Agile
Agile is Punk – Agile is Democracy
From time to time I’ve been heard to say: “Agile is Punk.” But I’ve never explained myself. I’ve also been…
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Agile
The Kanban paradox
I’m a big fan of David Anderson’s Kanban method, I always said my brand of “Agile” was heavily infused with…
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Agile
Managers are not homogenous
(If you are not a coder please bear with me…. we’ll get to the business point in a moment.) When…
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Agile
Thoughts on 6-Sigma and Agile
Question that comes up from time to time: “Does anyone have Agile project which is Six Sigma? How these two…
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Agile
Common Agile objections
Last time (“Waterfall works when…”) I promised to discuss some of those common objections to “Agile.” (Actually, reading back this…
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