It was kind of a weird week. Had lots of stuff going on that really took all my attention. I hate to go all five days of the work week without being able to manage even a single blog post. That said… I have been able to get down a few ideas that …
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Dennis Stevens, Rethinking the Agile Enterprise
It’s one thing to do stuff… it is quite another to write about what you do. It is tough to be clear and articulate; always making sure to leave your reader in a better place than when you got them. I’ve learned that the hard way over the past few y…
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Rethinking the Agile Enterprise
Lately we’ve been exploring the idea of moving past the specific practices of Scrum and XP and focusing more on what we are doing rather than how we are doing it. Rather than focusing on having ScrumMasters and Product Owners, we need to start thinkin…
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If you were going to write a book using agile methodologies, what might that look like? You might be inclined to create a backlog of topics… maybe play a little planning poker to get some idea of how big your book is in story points. You’d start wr…
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Yesterday I talked a little about how companies focus too much on process… how they are doing their work… rather than the actual business outcomes they are trying to deliver. This is a really big problem that impacts all levels of the organization…
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“Re-thinking the Agile Enterprise: A Manager’s Guide to Building an Adaptive Organization”One of the consistent areas of feedback Dennis and I got on the book proposal was that folks didn’t like the title. The initial reaction from our publisher was t…
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My good friend Dennis Stevens and I just finished up our Cutter Executive Report titled ‘Rethinking the Agile Enterprise’. The paper is now out in print and available for download via the Cutter website.For regular readers of Leading Agile… you’ll no…
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