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How work enters an organization or team is almost always a touchy subject because for many it is the root of the pressure on teams to do more than they... Read More
The idea of an agile team toiling away trying to be agile in the face of a waterfall organization evokes a huge amount of passion. Tony Timbol, called to share... Read More
I participated in a panel discussion recently that had to wrestle with the question of why companies use agile. There are lots of good reasons, including improving delivery performance, increased... Read More
The discussion of whether a coach is using a directive or non-directive coaching approach is not an academic discussion. As a person that has held internal and external coach positions,... Read More
The word coach is used so indiscriminately that the meaning is hard to discern. Saying you are a coach still sends a signal, but the signal is at the mercy... Read More
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
