You Can’t "Cherry Pick" Agile Projects at Scale
When you are first adopting agile techniques in your organization a common strategy is to run one or more pilot projects. When organizing these projects you typically do as much as you can to make...
View ArticleScaling Agile: An Executive Guide
My new paper Scaling Agile: An Executive Guide is now available. As the title suggests the paper overviews how to scale agile strategies to meet your organization's unique needs. The executive...
View ArticleAgile and Enterprise Architecture
People who are new to agile are often confused about how agile teams address architecture, but luckily we're seeing more discussion around agile architecture now in the community so this problem is...
View ArticleRemoving the cost barriers to getting the agile tools you need
Rolf Nelson recently recorded a short (5 min) podcast about IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC). RTC is a complete agile collaborative development environment providing agile planning, source code...
View Article2010 IT Project Success Survey: Chance to win “Reflections on Management”
You are invited to participate in my 2010 IT Project Success survey (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/StateOfITUnion). The goal of this survey series is to find out how we define IT project success in...
View ArticleAgile and regulatory compliance
One of the scaling factors called out in the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) is "regulatory compliance". This name is a bit of a misnomer because this scaling factor really addresses two issues: complying...
View ArticleAgile and geographical distribution
One of the scaling factors called out in the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) is "geographic distribution". As with the other scaling factors the level of geographic distribution is a range, with co-located...
View ArticleChallenges in Scaling Agile Development
Timo Tenhunen has recently published his master's thesis, Challenges in Scaling Agile Software Development , and has been kind enough to make it available online. I suspect you'll find it to be an...
View ArticleThe Principles of Lean Software Development
In Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck show how the seven principles of lean manufacturing can be applied to optimize the whole IT value stream. These principles are:...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum
I'm happy to announce that A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum by Elizabeth Woodward, Steffan Surdek, and Matthew Ganis is now in print. I've been talking this book up in presentations and with...
View ArticleAgile and Technical Complexity
One of the scaling factors of the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) is technical complexity. The fundamental observation is that the underlying technology of solutions varies and as a result your approach to...
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Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) Lifecycles
In previous blog postings I've defined Discipline Agile Delivery (DAD) but I haven't shared the lifecycle (although I have done so in a couple of white papers, most recently Scaling Agile: An Executive...
View ArticleSurvey Says: We’re Not as Agile as We Claim
My current agile newsletter for Dr. Dobb's Journal, How Agile Are We? discusses some of the results from my recent How Are Are You? survey. The survey investigated how well "agile teams" met the...
View ArticleAgile and domain complexity
One of the scaling factors called out in the Agile Scaling Model (ASM) is domain complexity. The general idea is that agile teams will find themselves in different situations where some teams are...
View ArticleReworking the Agile Manifesto
I've recently been working with Mark Lines of UPMentors and we've had some interesting discussions around evolving the Agile Manifesto which I thought I would share here to obtain feedback. Note that...
View ArticleAgile and Independent Testing
When it comes to testing on agile projects it is common practice for agile teams to adopt a "whole team testing" approach where the team itself does its own testing. To accomplish this agile teams...
View ArticleIBM Rational e-book: Agility@Scale
IBM Rational recently published an update to my Agility@Scale e-book, which can be downloaded free of charge. The e-book is a 21 page, 2.3 meg PDF (sorry about the size, guess the graphics did it) ....
View ArticleAgile Reality over Rhetoric
There is a fair bit of rhetoric surrounding agile methods, some of which we subscribe to and some of which we don't. We'd like to briefly examine the rhetoric which we've found to be the most...
View ArticleThe Agile 3C Rhythm
There is a distinct rhythm, or cadence, at different levels of the agile process. We call this the agile 3C rhythm, for coordinate, collaborate, and conclude (which is sometimes called stabilize). The...
View ArticleLean Development Goverance Revised
I'm happy to announce that a revised version of the Lean Development Governance white paper which I co-wrote with Per Kroll is now available. This version of the paper reflects our learnings over the...
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