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Death by a thousand cuts, Agile/Scrum style — an example
TerraT posted an interesting comment on this blog post. I thoght I’d repost it here since it is illustrative of the slippery slope a project can get on when doing a “by the book” agile adoption and what the ramifications … Continue reading
Post Agilism: Moving beyond the outdated and misdirected aspects of “Agile”
The Software World is moving beyond “Agile” into the post-Agile world — and for good reason. The main problem with Agile, is that it was invented in the 90s, to solve the problems of the 80s. Problems that are different … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, cio, cto, kanban, lean, nimble, post agile, post agilism, scrum
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My most Relevant posts on Agile organized for your reading pleasure
Since blogs in general and this one in particular tend to highlight recent postings, and since reading my recent postings alone will not really provide the context to understand what my major points are, I’ve decided to put together my most … Continue reading
By Popular Request: What my Approach Is
I’ve been asked on several occasions what my general approach is for software development. Although I don’t have particular “hard rules” for how things must be done, I do have a number of general approaches which I tend to use … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, cio, cto, jordan bortz, kanban, lean, post agile, post agilism, scrum
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Enthusiasm and Astroturfing in the Agile Landscape
Agile is so cool isn’t it? And our team is so much more productive since we’ve switched to Scrum — in fact we’ve decided to reorganize our entire lives around lean/kanban culture It seems like you can’t browse anywhere without … Continue reading
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Tagged agile, astroturfing, ceo, cio, csm, cst, cto, kanban, lean, post agile, postagilism, scrum, scrumlena
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Lack of Scrum Success stories a Growing Concern?
Scrum is nearly 20 years old and has enjoyed significant popularity in recent years. But that popularity has not manifested itself in terms of visible success. There have been repeated requests, for success stories, both here on my blog, as … Continue reading
Refactoring the Scrum Lexicon
There has been much discussion lately regarding reforming some of the words in the Scrum Lexicon. I welcome such long overdue discussion, for several reasons. 1) It obviously demonstrates that even the founders feel that modification is necessary, and thus … Continue reading
The Japanese Roots of “Scrum”, Part I
I’m sure many of us in the software development world are aware of “Scrum.” Scrum was derived from a Seminal Paper by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka It is certainly worth a read (linked above). From now on in this … Continue reading
Rhetorical Anti-Patterns in Scrum and XP
How to improve your teams communication and eradicate harmful communication patterns Continue reading
Posted in agile, c#, java, scrum, Uncategorized, xp
Tagged agile, cio, civility, cto, scrum, scrum master, scrumandamentalism, scrumdamentalist, xp
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The flawed rhetoric about “Scrum” and “Organizational Dysfunction”
One of the most bizarre, yet highly touted, “features” of Scrum is that it “exposes Organizational Dysfunction”. Not mere team based, project based, or even departmental dysfunction, but Organizational Dysfunction … enterprise wide. Now this is crazy on so many … Continue reading
