What is culture? And do we start to change it?
Some of us in the Agile community think: an organization’s culture needs to change before agile can be fully adopted. This certainly seems to be true. Let’s define this more precisely. The idea is...
View ArticleChanging culture
I am giving a presentation at Southern Fried Agile on Oct 18th, 2013. On “Culture & Agile & Change”. Here is the presentation slide deck so far. To me, it is mainly a reference and a...
View ArticleCulture: Some steps to improve it (for Scrum)
I have been thinking a lot about corporate culture lately, and what we can do to change it. For example, to enable Scrum to get better results. Here is one article by John Kotter. Pretty good I think....
View ArticleWhy I prefer ‘Release Plan Refactoring’ to ‘grooming’
I was just doing a course with Dave Muldoon in Canada. One of the workshops was scaling. In that context, we discussed release plan refactoring or product backlog grooming. To me, the Scrum community...
View ArticleScaling, Part 2
Here are some additional patterns to consider when Scaling. For now, consider that I am using a narrow definition of scaling, to mean only, collocated teams working together on one product in a fairly...
View ArticleWhat if Scrum is not working for you?
I was speaking to a smart guy who had taken (some while ago) my CSM course. We were both waiting at the Cluj airport. He made me think about this problem. The first thing to say is that Scrum is not a...
View ArticleAgile Contracts
Jeff Sutherland did a presentation at Agile 2013 that I think everyone should read and think about. And read and think about again. Here is the slide deck:...
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Joe’s real agile contract
Adela asks: “Please send me some information [on] the details contracts shall contain [for] those projects where the methodology is Agile.” To talk more clearly, let’s imagine a situation. Imagine you...
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Question: More on Agile Contracts
Gabriel asks: Can you suggest me few relevant papers on Agile contracts? I am interested in both the ad-hoc, non-commercial agreements, to maximize, based on Pareto law naive application, the output of...
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Definition of Ready
Gabriel asked: Hi Joe, Can you recommend few good sources for “Definition of Ready” ? *** I like Jeff Sutherland’s stuff. Did you see this?...
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