Velocity is Not Acceleration

I see a lot of confusion around velocity in new-to-agile teams. Too many people treat velocity as an acceleration measurement. That…

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Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 5: How Flow Changes Everything

The discussion to now: Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 1: Seeing Your System Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part…

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Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 4: Defining Accountability

This is the next in a series of posts about resource efficiency vs. flow efficiency: Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency,…

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Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 3: Managing Performance

Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 1: Seeing Your System explains resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Resource Efficiency vs. Flow…

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Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 2: Effect on People

If you haven’t read Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 1: Seeing the System,  I explain there about optimizing for…

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Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 1: Seeing Your System

I’ve been working with a number of people who want to work in a more agile way. These nice folks…

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How to Use Continuous Planning

If you’ve read Reasons for Continuous Planning, you might be wondering, “How can we do this?” Here are some ideas.…

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Who Should be Your Product Owner?

In agile, we separate the Product Owner function from functional (development) management. The reason is that we want the people…

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7 Tips for Valuing Features in a Backlog

Many product owners have a tough problem. They need so many of the potential features in the roadmap, that they…

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