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Making Agile Work in Regulated Industries

July 1, 2015

Compromise on documentation and engage auditors early.

Management in perpetual Beta

February 25, 2014

In a complex world, experts may inform our decisions but we should not rely on them. We need to try things out in context. Lots of things, lots of times, and with little fanfare. This is management in perpetual Beta.

Manifesto for Twenty-First Century Management: Part I

March 11, 2015

We spend one-third of our lives at work; it's our responsibility to make it a better place. Just as we take care of our homes so we can end up in comfort after work, shouldn't we be attempting to make work itself a better place?

Martin Fowler on Extreme Programming

July 12, 2013

Many people (including this writer) consider XP to be the primary catalyst that got attention to agile methods, and superior to Scrum as a base for starting out in agile development.

Method Wars: Scrum vs SAFe

August 12, 2013

The core thesis behind SAFe is that while frameworks like Scrum can work in the small, there are greater considerations that must be addressed before agile methods can function in the large.

Mixing Scrum and Kanban

July 10, 2015

What happened when Scrum and Kanban got together? Developers gained their freedom from sprints and began connecting with their colleagues more!

Modeling in the Agile Age: What to Keep Next to Code to Scale Agile Teams

July 9, 2014

Now that agile methods have become mainstream in software development, working code (and automated tests) are being considered as the most important team artifacts. Is modeling not needed any more? Is UML dead?

Modern Agile

November 3, 2015

Today's agile resembles a modern laptop: lighter, safer, simpler, sturdier, more powerful and pleasant to use. Since it looks and feels quite different from traditional agile, is modern agile for advanced practitioners only?

More On Why Managers Hate Agile

January 28, 2015

It is easy to lose sight of the core ideology of agile and the Creative Economy when you hear about myriad specific implementations of agile.

My Family Is a Scrum Team, and I Didn't Even Know It!

November 11, 2015

One practitioner's family has been a Scrum team since long before the word "Scrum" first entered her vocabulary. No, they don't play rugby or build websites. It's how they work as a team that makes them a Scrum family.

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