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Agile Agency: State of the Art 2018

I did some Scrum training for a creative agency earlier this year. The workflow at this company is not an obvious fit to Scrum as originally designed for software. To help find the best fit, I did a survey of

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Just Say No

Scrum is, by design, a “pull system” rather than a “push system”. The Scrum Team determines how much work they will pull in to each Sprint. The Product Owner determines what items are ready to be pulled in according to

Roger Brown December 18, 2018February 18, 2021 Agile Adoption, Organizations, Planning, Scrum, Sustainable Pace, Teams No Comments Read more

Maintenance Patterns for Scrum Teams

Try as we might, software products are never perfect. Coding styles, legacy bugs, tight deadlines, changing frameworks and evolving languages all contribute to the error potential of complex systems. Scrum Teams are often faced with the choice of working on

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Creating a Team of Experts

In the software world, there are principles that can be applied to make an architecture more agile. One of these is “design for change”. Because change is inevitable, a robust design will anticipate change in a way that minimizes impact

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Certified Agile Leadership Level I, Jan. 18-20, 2017 in Tustin, CA

My colleague Pete Behrens is offering a great new course Certified Agile Leadership Level I, Jan. 18-20, 2017 in Tustin, CA. This course is the first step in a great new Scrum Alliance program for managers, directors, VPs and executives

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Agile Transition Part 2: Success Factors

A number of success factors for Agile Transition are important to emphasize because they represent structural and, in many cases, cultural shifts from traditional software development and management environments. Most organizations miss many of these, thinking that they are simply

Roger August 19, 2013August 19, 2013 Agile Adoption, Organizations No Comments Read more
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