Agile Coaching as a term hasn’t been around since the advent of Agile. It was a term that gained traction after the publication of Lyssa Adkin’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book in 2010. Before then, most people were either Scrum Masters or other crazy terms including process improvement (which always felt at odds with the manifesto) …
There are now over half a dozen scaled Agile approaches on the market. From Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), to Nexus (Scrum.org’s scaled agile), Scrum at Scale (Jeff Sutherland’s version), Disciplined Agile Delivery (IBM’s version) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Whilst a few of these approaches have only been released in the last few …
Effective Executive Sponsors for Agile are a rare breed. In the VersionOne 11th Annual State of Agile Report 2017 the importance of Executive Sponsors is highlighted both to the success of scaling Agile and to mitigate challenges. This importance has grown dramatically over the last five years as Agile …
Welcome to the fourth blog in the Scaling Agile Tricks Series. So far we have covered The Leadership Cell, the Mitosis division of teams, and Pipeline management techniques. In this blog I will cover how to setup teams so that they deliver more efficiently. I am not the first person to talk about different types …
Welcome to the third blog in the Scaling Agile Tricks Series. So far we have covered the Leadership Cell pattern and the Mitosis pattern. In this blog I will cover my personal sentiments on managing, refining and decomposing pipelines when delivering using Agile across multiple teams. Generally I use the word pipeline management instead of …
Welcome to the second post in the Scaling Agile Tricks Series. In the first blog I talked about my favorite scaling pattern – the Leadership Cell. In the second blog post I have a really simple pattern called Mitosis. Mitosis is a very easy solution to a common problem – how do you scale the …
With so many frameworks out there that tell you how to scale Agile (LeSS, DAD, Nexus, Enterprise Scrum, SAFe, etc) I have for a long time held off adding fuel to the fire by having a blog series dedicated to Scaling Agile. Why? Well because, just like in the early days of foundational Agile (Scrum, …
Is Agile dependent on culture or leadership support for success? I recently read Silence by Shusaku Endo. It is a book about the early missionaries to Japan in a turbulent time when they were not wanted (to an extent that they were actively sought out and tortured). As I read the book I was reminded …
Scrum as implemented within teams is something that many of us have been doing for a while. It isn’t a simple implementation, but we have done it for over a decade. As teams begin to invest in applying Scrum at scale, the complicated quickly becomes complex. Methods such as LeSS, Enterprise Scrum, SAFe, DAD and …
Agile Forest 