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I was recently asked if agile coaches needed to exhibit flexibility. Unfortunately, the answer which should be ‘of course’ had to be, “it depends” because the word coach in agile... Read More
This week we tackle Chapter 6 of Tame your Work Flow, Throughput accounting ties a number of threads together for me. The big one is the linkage between getting value... Read More
Poking at any entrenched framework always elicits a response; almost all of the responses are well thought out and reasonable. In the past five essays, we have explored two major... Read More
Meeting time in Scrum, by the book, is fairly linear. A one week sprint and four-week sprint have roughly the same percentage of time spent in ceremonies/meetings. Nearly every Scrum... Read More
This week we begin Part 2 of Daniel Doiron and Steve Tendon’s Tame your Work Flow. Part 2 transitions us from improving wait time and flow efficiency and begins a... Read More
In whatever flavor of agile that you are doing, meetings and ceremonies are lightning rods for resistance. In response, numerous approaches for improving the scenario have sprung up. Most of... Read More
