After providing my 13th verbal summary of my session at Agile 2012, I realized that I did not have an infographic summarizing the session and book – An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide. So here they are.
What follows are the workshop results from Agile 2012 Session “An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide”. Read More
I am very excited that I just published my free book – An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture on InfoQ. Agile change agents will find it valuable in helping companies succeed with Agile and avoiding failure.
Hi All,
Wanted to share my latest slide deck from my presentation at the Atlanta Scrum Gathering on working with culture. About 70% the same as earlier versions.
Play is critical for creativity and innovation. It is something we cultivate in high-performance teams.
Last week I presented Agile Culture and Adoption Survival Guide at Agile New England. My message was around needing to understand corporate culture before undertaking Agile adoption or Agile transformation. The message resonated really strongly with participant and I received many personal thanks from people afterwards. The purpose of this post is to share additional data from that session.Read More
I am really excited about my upcoming methods & tools article on culture and have been getting some great feedback from reviewers. Two comments requested clarification around supporting analysis for my thesis that Agile, Kanban and Software Craftsmanship have a cultural bias.Read More
Have you been on a software project where each release gets harder and harder? Many projects fall into the tar pit of the Design Dead Core.
Why do nearly all software projects fail to balance short term choices with long term consequences?Read More
The rise of anemic Scrum was noted to dismay among the Agile community and in particular by “Uncle Bob” Martin who coined the fifth Agile manifesto value of Craftsmanship over Crap(Execution). This gave rise to the much needed community of Software Craftsmanship.Read More
Martin Fowler is among other things the Chief Scientist for ThoughtWorks. He gave an interesting keynote that consisted of 3 mini-talks. I thought it was very effective since it was accessible to those new to Agile as well as interesting for folks like me.Read More
Dave Thomas talked about a lot stuff so I pulled out the bits that resonated with me and bear emphasis.Read More
One of the workshops I run is to help team members understand root cause analysis. I use it with operations teams as well as product development teams. My workshop goal is to have people leave with a basic understanding and some practice. Read More
