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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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