Agile Self-Organising Teams
A fundamental aspect of Agile and scrum are self-organising teams. It sounds fairly self-evident, but what does that even mean? As it happens, Richard Hackman is the go-to guy in
Month: January 2023
What’s the Story, Morning Glory?
Don’t look back in anger, but some might say that for a simple concept story points may be one of the most misunderstood and misappropriated aspects of the Agile methodology.
Weighted Average of Dimensions for Initiatives
I have long advocated for and attempted to practice dimensionalising competing development requests. Generally two dimensions are sufficient—value and effort—, but I’ve created 3-dimensional models by further breaking out customer
SAFe Value Stream Mapping
As in Orwell’s dystopian 1984, SAFe reinvents terms to suit its needs and hijack words but not their underlying concepts. One of these terms is value stream. The reason is
Software Solution Problems
I’ve had many conversations about the failings of Agile and of the inability for enterprises to be agile. One fundamental difference comes down to trust. In fact, we don’t even