Category: Agile

Agile maturity assessments: Going back to Shu Ha Ri.

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Government Agility: Framework? Methodology? What should it really look like?

Government work is complex. This framework and white paper addresses the core issues facing government and the need for a specific view of agility to improve ability to pivot, time to deliver on minister’s announcements, and reduced costs of delivering government programs.

Definition of a Defect in Agile and the Definition of Done

A stakeholder suddenly claims it doesn’t work as intended and therefore it’s a bug that requires immediate attention. What do you do? How do you treat bugs and incidents and change requests in agile teams?

Change Management is Not a Downstream Activity

To set up your organisation to succeed, Change should not be an after thought or purely a downstream actvity. It’s not a supporting service, it belongs in your agile teams.

Stop escalating impediments. Support the team to solve them.

Got blockers? Don’t leave them til the Standup and don’t remove them yourself. Help the team to self-organise!

Groupthink: the bane of high performing Agile Teams

What makes an agile team great and why? After coaching a number of teams in Scrum, we’ve now seen a number that, after a some months now, could be considered high performers. Some of these go bad and reject any external criticism regardless of how accurate that might be. Why do these teams go bad? Groupthink might have the answer.

Scrum has changed! What’s out? What’s new?

The last Scrum Guide was published in 2017. In 2020, what does the Scrum Guide now reinforce as “best practice” for its framework? Scrum in non-software environments – including medicine, HR, and finance, as well as in service delivery – is now its focus.