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A good friend and former colleague recently emailed me: “What is your take on SAFe?” I thought others might enjoy our edited down email thread: Joe: “SAFe, in my opinion, gives good structure but slows and dissents inspection and adaption above the team level as the structure in management and up is rigid and hierarchical.Read more about Scrum at Scale[…]
An Agile Homeroom, or centralized agile business unit, appears to be a necessary step as agility grows across a company. We are seeing this now across the 370,000 employees at Bosch, for example. Cliff Notes version of what I’m learning in this space: 1) having a clear, easy way to see the current outputs ofRead more about Agile Homeroom[…]
Announcing WIKISPEED’s Intent to Launch Innovation Racing Series. All content is draft as of this writing, and improvements are warmly welcomed. What: A series to race innovative vehicles and sell them right off the podium. Why: Current racing series are not developing products relevant to saving our planet quickly enough, nor making them immediately available.Read more about Innovation Racing Series[…]
An email came in last week from a Florida area Scrum coach, checking on the three outputs of Scrum I referenced in an online course with the Scrum Alliance. This is in the context of the 3-5-3 recipe for booting up Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide: 3 Roles in Scrum, the 5 MeetingsRead more about The Three Scrum Outputs[…]
Jeff Sutherland recently commented on the order of the 4 values in the Agile Manifesto: http://www.agilemanifesto.org/, which is now the dominant method of delivery in software and other industries: “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan” From Dr. JeffRead more about The order of the Agile Manifesto[…]
Who Fires a Scrum Team?! In an Agile 1.0 organization, where a traditional management structure exists with Scrum teams in delivery roles inside the company, traditional management fires the Scrum team if they don’t perform. In an Agile 2.0 organization, where the entire company is reformed of Scrum teams delivering the outputs of previous silos,Read more about Who Fires A Scrum Team?![…]
The Culture We Expect: Individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools. Customer Value over Comprehensive Documentation. Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation. Responding to Change over Following a plan. (adapted from the Agile Manifesto, 2001) Useful definitions: Experts: those who aggressively collaborate to improve their dataset. –Joe Justice Intellectual Humility: Awareness that one or moreRead more about The Culture We Expect[…]
AWESOME GROUPS: Following is a list of groups that WikiSpeed loves, admires, collaborates with, or similar, for various reasons, and how to get involved with each. Joe Justice, at the very least, highly recommends each of these at present: AGILE, LEAN, AND SCRUM: ScrumInc.com. Offering paid training, consulting, and coaching to get twice the workRead more about Awesome Groups[…]
This post is in addition to core Scrum, and is my opinion on how to help boot up Scrum in a company as an Agile business process trainer, consultant, and coach: The development team, who collaboratively accomplished the work, often gets rare and transformational customer feedback during sprint review, also called sprint demo. Ideally theRead more about Who presents the completed work during Sprint Review?[…]
This post is in addition to core Scrum, and is my opinion on how to help boot up Scrum in a company as an Agile business process trainer, consultant, and coach: What do we need to start Scrumming? A single, prioritized, estimated backlog with labeled business value. A team passionate to get that backlog doneRead more about Scrum Team Launch[…]