Had great fun presenting the New Agile today at Agile Eastern Europe in Kiev. Here are the slides. You can also watch the video here. And the original (longer) session slides are here. Also check out the New Agile Posts on the blog: The Beginning Certifications Why is agile so popular? More, please! Size matters
In the new knowledge economy, the winners are the ones who learn quickly. But learning means nothing, if it cannot be applied to the business. So the winners are the ones who learn, and use that knowledge, by deciding where to go, and what to do next. If decision making is the king maker, it
We’ve talked about scaling and agile methodology on how to build stuff, but hey, we want to know what to build, dammit! Unfortunately, SAFe, scrum, XP, or Lean Startup don’t talk about what we need to build. Just how to get it out the door. Picking a winning product seems like the holy grail. Business
If business analysis is where we come up with ideas, then product development process is the factory that makes the vision real. What did we take from agile and how is it different today from 15 years ago? The magic word of today is SCALE. And the king of Scaled Agile is SAFe. I’ve already
Coming up on the 15th year of agile, do we understand business better? Remember that agile started in development teams? As the time passes, we feel that the agile manifesto can be applied also at the product level, and maybe even at the portfolio level. There’s definitely a demand for scaling the process from the
The current buzz at the agile world is scale. Now that we know that agile looks golden, we want to apply it to everything. Agile started as a development team practice. Extreme programming, Scrum, Feature Driven Development, and others all originated in software development teams. Since they were successful, it made sense to apply those
Is it the cool name? Is it the actual successes? Is it the drawings with lots of loops in them? Might be all, but above all else, there are the perceived (and maybe the not actual) value of agile, that organizations want. Let’s look at those: Reduced waste – When Lean was given its name,
Last time we looked at how things came to be. How things converged around a group of software developers in a ski resort: There were actual experiments in the field with reported successes. There was a funnel for communication to spread those ideas. And now there was a joint vision and a name. The agile
Frequent readers of this blog know I’m a big proponent of agile, with a small ”a”. I tend to scoff at new big ideas that seem to jump out of a marketing committee. Truth is, sometimes these are good ideas. Sometimes they are first versions of trials and errors. When we look at them at