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 …
This is an interim blog post defining my thoughts whilst attending the five day Holacracy Practitioner Training in Philadelphia. I will probably repost my final thoughts or add some comments when I return back to Australia. So why do Holacracy Practitioner Training in the first place? It certainly wasn’t because I had client that had …
There is a world of misinformation out there about Agile. Even I have probably created some misinformation once or twice (not deliberately). There is probably too much wrong to fix, but I saw a tweet recently that I wanted to tackle. It was originally linking to the Segue Technologies blog: http://www.seguetech.com/blog/2015/11/03/waterfall-vs-agile-infographic Naturally some people in the …
When I was in Washington for the Agile Alliance 2015 conference I met up with Craig Smith and Christopher Avery for a podcast (unfortunately for me half way through). It was my first real introduction to the Leadership Gift and Responsibility Model. I had heard Craig talk to about the Leadership Gift a few times …
I have been doing some hiring lately. The two roles I have been hiring for are a Scrum Master and a Business Analyst. I used the opportunity to test my recruitment questionaire – questions that I am expecting the organisation to ask in the future when I am no longer there in order to ensure …
