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(3/29/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Emergent Design (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Flexible Concrete (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Focus on the Work, Not the Framework (6/6/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Holisic Design via Design Patterns Thinking (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Lean Management (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Lean Thinking (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Minimum Business Increment is Critical (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Test-First (6/4/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: The Goal is Business Agility (6/7/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: The Goal is Business Agility (6/7/2019)
10 Lessons from 20 Years in Agile: Value Stream Mapping (6/4/2019)
20 Years In a Week (12/24/2018)
9 Things Frameworks Should Do But Most Don’t (8/5/2019)
A Christmas Tree Analogy (12/25/2008)
A Framework for Thinking About Risk (2/21/2019)
A Green Test Alone Proves Nothing (2/7/2019)
A Metaphor for Lean Management (6/3/2019)
A metaphor for team agility – GPS systems (1/27/2019)
A missing piece in SAFe product management (8/8/2018)
A New Paradigm/Chasm Emerges (3/17/2019)
A new series by Scott Bain: Design Patterns (7/9/2019)
A personal goal of almost two decades is manifested today (7/20/2018)
A personal goal of almost two decades manifested today (7/20/2018)
A return to ethical certification (6/26/2019)
A Simple Solution to Agile at Small-Scale (1/11/2019)
A thought experiment to help you decide on an effective course of action (9/8/2019)
Adopting Agile in an Agile Way (7/5/2018)
Advice from the GoF: Design to Interfaces (7/12/2019)
Advice from the GoF: Encapsulate the concept that varies (7/18/2019)
Advice from the GoF: Favor Composition Over Inheritance (7/15/2019)
Agile Can Be Simple But It Must Be The Right Simple (1/13/2019)
Agile Developer Habits 101 – Focus on Finishing to Manage Work in Process (1/17/2019)
Agile Developer Habits 101 – How Will I Know I’ve Done That (1/16/2019)
Agile Does Not Have to Be So Hard (5/15/2019)
Agile is Here to Stay (Or at Least the Being of It) (2/1/2019)
Agile Manifesto: Incredible Success and time to Move On (11/18/2019)
An Agile Fairy Tale (5/13/2019)
An experiment in the power of perspective (4/8/2019)
An ignored piece of the ecosystem (8/23/2018)
An open invitation for a discussion (8/12/2018)
An Open Letter to Participants When We Go In To Train (1/14/2019)
Announcing On the Job, Online Training for Scrum & Kanban Coaches (1/14/2019)
Announcing The Net Objectives FLEX Training Program (6/8/2019)
Announcing the TDD Companion (5/31/2019)
Asking a favor of 15 minutes from any internal consultant of a large organization considering or using SAFe materials for training. (4/23/2019)
Attend To Culture. Excerpt from “Adopting SAFe® for Your Organization: Achieving Business Agility from Small to Mid-Scale” book 2 in the FLEX series (12/21/2018)
Attend to what’s in it for them (7/7/2018)
Attending to What Management Wants in an Agile Adoption (12/16/2018)
Be careful with SAFe’s use of the MVP (5/10/2019)
Big Room Planning Event tip: Make sure commitments are made for all dependencies (8/2/2018)
Causes of Dark Scrum (7/30/2019)
Challenges I’ve learned how to solve by attending to Business Agility, Flow, and Lean (8/15/2019)
Challenging the Assumption That One Must Get Teams to Work First (9/14/2019)
Challenging Why (not if) Scrum Fails (3/31/2019)
Challenging why (not if) Scrum works (3/31/2019)
Checklist for a good framework (6/20/2019)
Commonly Missing Tests in TDD (3/20/2019)
Complexity is Not What it Used to Be (3/31/2019)
Creating a True Community of Service Providers for Agile (8/6/2019)
Creating cross-functional teams is more effective than coordinating teams with dependencies (9/27/2019)
D.O.G.M.A. (7/11/2019)
Demand respect. Why “Scrum-ish” can be better than Scrum (12/15/2018)
Design Patterns: The Second Leg of Emergent Design (1/23/2019)
Do be do be do – Frank Sinatra on Agile (8/19/2018)
Does incorporating a few Agile practices into waterfall make waterfall Agile? (8/17/2019)
Does your approach create an organizational operating system? (7/4/2019)
Does your approach enable business agility? (7/3/2019)
Does your approach utilize the concept of identifying the smallest deliverable chunks of value that can be realized in order to achieve alignment and the quick realization of value? (7/15/2019)
Does your approach utilize the concept of smallest realizable chunk of value that can be realized? (7/17/2019)
Don’t Worry About Process Waste; Worry About Delays & Output Waste (2/7/2019)
Elephants in the Room and No Clothes on the Emperor (1/7/2019)
Essential SAFe for Large-Scale Companies – Countdown #11 (9/21/2018)
Essential SAFe for Mid-Scale Companies – #SAFeSummit 12 (9/20/2018)
Evaluating your intake process on how effective it is to get leadership and management involved (4/13/2019)
Examining How to Adopt Scrum (11/25/2018)
Examining Test-First (11/28/2018)
Expanding on a tweet (9/3/2018)
Figuring Out the Test You Missed is Job One (2/18/2019)
FLEX as a Pattern Framework (6/20/2019)
FLEX is not another framework (12/31/2018)
FLEX’s launch this week is a harbinger of the next wave of Agile (7/24/2019)
FLEX: A Pattern Language for Achieving Business Agility (5/30/2019)
FLEX: FLow for Enterprise Transformation (5/3/2019)
Focus on Realization of Value, Not Delivery of Software – #SAFeSummit 14 (9/18/2018)
Focus on the work, not the framework (5/18/2019)
Four steps to move you to Business Agility (9/28/2019)
Framework Tunnel Vision (6/28/2019)
Frameworks are just tools. Good ones are instances of Lean (8/5/2018)
Frameworks, proxies and Lean-Agile Principles (9/1/2018)
Getting back to the original Scrum (9/16/2019)
Getting to cross-functional teams (9/15/2019)
Going Beyond Design Patterns (3/31/2019)
Going Beyond Lean and Agile: Introducing FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) (2/18/2019)
Good enough to ship is OK, even probably good. Good enough to stay, however, is not (7/13/2019)
Handoffs, handbacks, holdups and multi-tasking- discovering impediments without value stream mapping (10/1/2019)
How a framework just implying what needs to be done causes damage (6/26/2019)
How Design Patterns Give Insights Into Process Patterns (2/1/2019)
How did Agile become so unagile (4/24/2019)
How do people react to change? (7/28/2019)
How do we work together at Scale? – 7 days to #SAFeSummit (9/26/2018)
How does your approach deal with complexity? (7/8/2019)
How does your approach help you start and learn? (7/21/2019)
How Frameworks Are Being Used Now Is Impeding Agile and What We Can Do About It (1/12/2019)
How Frameworks Help Us and Hurt Us (1/26/2019)
How I define Lean-Scrum (how Net Objectives does Scrum) (1/2/2019)
How Lean can make SAFe and/or Scrum adoption faster, better, cheaper (7/4/2018)
How Midscale Companies Can Use a Lightweight Version of SAFe – #SAFeSummit 13 (9/19/2018)
How Much Testing is Enough? (2/13/2019)
How Scrum creates ScrumBut and what to do about it (9/15/2019)
How Scrum’s core is useful and incorporates the essence of Agile (9/19/2019)
How Successful Pilots Often Actually Hurt an Organization (9/13/2019)
How to decide on what to start with when starting Agile at the team (11/4/2018)
How to do SAFe “by the book” better than the book (4/21/2019)
How Using MBIs Ties Strategies, the intake process, ATDD, and planning together (4/29/2019)
I am not a big fan of Shu Ha Ri (9/21/2019)
I was wrong, but it’s worse than I thought (1/29/2019)
If you know Scrum or Kanban your next course should be in a course that covers what you don’t know (11/16/2018)
If you’re having problems sequencing your work items, this is most likely why (8/30/2019)
If you’re wondering what’s next after Agile or are tired of limited offerings, here’s a place to go (7/7/2019)
If your technology group is 50-500 people and you think SAFe’s too big for you & that Less doesn’t have enough management then you are right. (7/3/2018)
If You’re Looking to Improve Your Coaching Skills Our Advanced Scrum Master / Kanban Online Program Is Your Best Bet (1/8/2019)
Impediments to flow (3/21/2019)
Implementing Strategies with Small Pieces of Work- 8 days to #SAFeSummit (9/26/2018)
Improve Your Scrum by Using Flow Thinking (2/3/2019)
Intermediary Practices vs. Practices That Work Directly on Flow (2/19/2019)
Introducing a New Kind of Framework FLEX: FLow for Enterprise Transformation (12/20/2018)
Introduction to FLEX webinar tomorrow 9am pacific. (5/2/2019)
INVEST is a goal, not a guide (1/20/2019)
Issues with using preset training materials (6/7/2019)
It’s important to understand what really needs to be worked on (12/26/2018)
It’s not GETTING Agile that takes the time, it’s the NOT getting it (3/10/2019)
Keeping Tests Fast (5/24/2019)
Know five things to be a flow whisperer (7/17/2019)
Lean Thinking on frameworks vs. the work in them (7/11/2018)
Lean-Agile Newsletter – April 30, 2019 (4/30/2019)
Lean-Agile Newsletter – April 4, 2019 (4/4/2019)
Lean-Agile Newsletter – July 17, 2019 (7/17/2019)
Lean-Agile Newsletter – June 20/26, 2019 (6/20/2019)
Lean-Agile Newsletter – May 16, 2019 (5/16/2019)
Let’s not put limits on our methods. And let’s not accept methods with limits. (12/22/2018)
Let’s stop trying to get leadership/management to ‘be’ Agile (11/21/2018)
Lowering the cost of your framework training by making it better (12/21/2018)
Make Tests Repeatable and Independent (5/23/2019)
Make your Essential SAFe adoption more effective by adding just one explicit concept (7/2/2019)
Making Frameworks Elegant: Avoiding the Simplistic or Complicated Trap (1/2/2019)
Manifesto for Helping Others Learn Agile (11/16/2018)
Migrating the blog: Al Shalloway (9/19/2020)
Migrating the blog: Scott Bain (9/21/2020)
Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) are very different from Minimum Business Increments (MBIs) (5/20/2019)
Mocking as a Design Smell (3/6/2019)
Multi-tasking is not the problem; it is a symptom of bigger problems (8/12/2019)
New Teams Can Avoid Common Errors by Understanding Cost of Delay (1/30/2019)
Nice to See Scrum Evolve (2/2/2019)
No, Scrum did not back its car over my dog (1/29/2019)
One of the most valuable concepts in Agile is missing (7/1/2019)
Pay for your Agile adoption with the waste you eliminate by focusing on Agile Product Management (APM) (7/5/2018)
Piano tops and Agile (6/22/2018)
Practice: Adhere to a Coding Standard (11/11/2019)
Practice: Encapsulate by Policy, Reveal by Need (11/11/2019)
Practice: Encapsulating Constructors in Simple Classes (11/1/2019)
Practice: Programming by Intention (11/11/2019)
Practices Developers Should Always Do (8/10/2019)
Presumptions I Do Not Believe In (9/14/2019)
Principles Patterns Follow: Dependency Inversion (8/19/2019)
Principles Patterns Follow: Liskov Substitution (8/16/2019)
Principles Patterns Follow: Open-Closed (8/14/2019)
Principles Patterns Follow: Separation of Concerns (8/22/2019)
Process is not the enemy, waste is (7/7/2019)
Putting Lean-Kanban practices into Scrum is not the same as being Lean (4/6/2019)
Qualities of a good framework (5/15/2019)
Qualities Patterns Share: Avoiding Redundancy (8/2/2019)
Qualities Patterns Share: Proper Coupling (7/29/2019)
Qualities Patterns Share: Robust Encapsulation (8/2/2019)
Qualities Patterns Share: Strong Cohesion (7/25/2019)
Qualities Patterns Share: Testability (8/12/2019)
Qualities, Principles, Practices (7/23/2019)
Question to ask when you hear something you know is wrong (3/16/2019)
Questions to Ask Yourself While in an Implementing SAFe class (5/18/2019)
Quotes to ‘Agile’ by (7/6/2018)
Refactoring Applied to TDD (3/8/2019)
Refactoring SAFe to FLEX part 1 of 2 (7/27/2019)
Rethinking ScrumBut &ScrumAnd (11/19/2018)
Robust vs. Complicated (6/20/2019)
SAFe is not Agile if you are planning 3 months ahead (4/5/2019)
Scrum FLEXed (7/7/2018)
Scrum for Software Development (7/25/2019)
Scrum should be specialized for software development/IT teams (7/6/2018)
Seeing Challenges in the Value Stream (1/9/2019)
Shalloway’s Law and Shalloway’s Principle (3/31/2019)
Shift Your View To What’s Important (1/21/2019)
Side affects of frameworks that focus on their practices and not your flow (7/9/2019)
Simplifying SAFe w/MBIs (11/1/2018)
Slower, Better, Cheaper- Why Scaled Learning Is Our Future and How to Get it Today (8/14/2019)
Smart People, XP and Scrum – Is there a pattern? (3/31/2019)
Something has Happened to Me (Not My Normal Rant) (2/1/2019)
Specifying Boundaries in TDD: Part 1 (3/25/2019)
Specifying Boundaries in TDD: Part 2 (3/26/2019)
Specifying Constants in TDD (3/21/2019)
Specifying Exceptions in TDD (3/29/2019)
Specifying the Negative in TDD (5/31/2019)
Specifying Workflows in TDD, Part 1: Why (3/27/2019)
Specifying Workflows in TDD, Part 2: How (3/28/2019)
Step 1: Acknowledge the need to move from a team focus to systems thinking (4/25/2019)
Step 2: Shift from Agile at the team to business agility (4/26/2019)
Step 3: Incorporate Flow into your way of thinking and focus on the work itself (4/27/2019)
Stop the binary thinking (11/14/2018)
Straightening out your value stream (10/2/2019)
Sustainable TDD: Part 1 (5/1/2019)
Sustainable TDD: Part 2 (5/3/2019)
Sustainable TDD: Part 3 (5/7/2019)
Systems thinking and complexity (3/25/2019)
Systems thinking and complexity (5/13/2019)
TDD and Accuracy vs. Precision (5/21/2019)
TDD and Code Coverage (2/15/2019)
TDD and Code Coverage Tools (4/26/2019)
TDD and Coupling (2/12/2019)
TDD and Design Patterns (3/19/2019)
TDD and Dynamically-Typed/Interpreted Languages (4/19/2019)
TDD and Encapsulation (2/28/2019)
TDD and Guard Assertions (4/17/2019)
TDD and Inflection Points (5/28/2019)
TDD and Legacy Code (5/16/2019)
TDD and Naming Part 3: Customized Assertions (4/15/2019)
TDD and Naming: Part 1 (4/10/2019)
TDD and Naming: Part 2 (4/11/2019)
TDD and Reported Defects (3/11/2019)
TDD and System Architecture (4/3/2019)
TDD and Test Anatomy (4/5/2019)
TDD and Test Invariance (4/24/2019)
TDD and the Magic Buttons (5/31/2019)
TDD and the OCP (3/1/2019)
TDD and the Separation of Concerns (3/5/2019)
TDD and the Single Responsibility Principle (2/25/2019)
TDD as a Sustainable Process: Introduction (4/29/2019)
TDD does not Replace Traditional Testing (3/7/2019)
TDD Makes Developers and Testers into Valued Colleagues (2/21/2019)
TDD Provides Value to Everyone in the Development Process (2/19/2019)
TDD Replicating Algorithms (4/4/2019)
TDD Tells Us What is not Known (2/14/2019)
TDD Yields Confidence (4/1/2019)
TDD Yields Velocity (4/2/2019)
TDD “Good” Tests Part 1. The test must reliably fail for the reason intended (3/13/2019)
TDD “Good” Tests Part 2. The test must never fail for any other reason (3/15/2019)
TDD “Good” Tests Part 3. There must be no other test that fails for this reason (3/15/2019)
TDD: Keeping Tests Green (5/20/2019)
TDD: Testing Adapters for Abstract Classes (5/9/2019)
TDD: Tests are Client Number 1 (4/22/2019)
Teaching/Learning Business Agility a Step at a Time (8/28/2019)
Test-Driven Development (TDD): The First Leg of Emergent Design (1/22/2019)
Test-Driven Development is not Merely “Test-First” (2/6/2019)
Testing vs. Testability (3/4/2019)
Tests are Client Number 1 (3/18/2019)
Tests are Reactive: They Pass or They Fail (2/8/2019)
The #1 challenge for teams after Scrum training is writing small, well-scoped, testable stories (7/9/2018)
The 10 most important things I’ve learned in 20 years of Agile (6/2/2019)
The 3rd Decade of Agile – The Cathedral and the Bazaar (8/9/2019)
The Abstract Factory (8/29/2019)
The Adapter (8/30/2019)
The Agile Coaching Manifesto: The Agile Manifesto re-written for Agile consultants (7/4/2018)
The Agile Manifesto Explained from FLEX’s Perspective (8/13/2019)
The biggest difference between Scrum, XP and Kanban (8/4/2018)
The Bridge (9/18/2019)
The Builder (9/23/2019)
The Case for Small When You Are @Scale – #SAFeSummit 15 (9/17/2018)
The Chain of Responsibility (9/16/2019)
The Challenges of Essential SAFe (12/3/2018)
The Common Aspects of Almost-Instant Agile Success (10/17/2018)
The Composite (9/16/2019)
The contradictions in many Scrum-based Framework Training (Scrum, SAFe, …) (12/2/2018)
The Dark Cycle of Scrum and How To Avoid It (1/6/2019)
The Decorator (9/11/2019)
The Differences Between Scrum and Kanban (1/16/2019)
The Effective Organization of the Future (2/5/2019)
The Essence of SAFe – countdown #17 (9/15/2018)
The Façade (9/6/2019)
The falsehoods in the truth (4/23/2019)
The first step in Lean Portfolio Management (8/8/2018)
The Five Whys of Lean as an Answer to the “But” of Scrum (3/31/2019)
The FLEX Patterns (6/28/2019)
The Flyweight (10/1/2019)
The Foundations of FLEX (7/26/2019)
The four most valuable concepts I’ve seen in over 20 years of Agile (9/30/2019)
The Future of Agile (1/23/2019)
The goal is not to adopt Scrum. The goal is to increase your agility while using Scrum as a vehicle. (6/24/2018)
The Implications of Systems Thinking and Complex Systems (9/14/2019)
The infatuation with MVPs is taking us away from our real need (6/26/2018)
The Insidious Side of Scrum and How I’d Fix It (and yes, I know it wouldn’t be Scrum anymore) (1/21/2019)
The Lean-Agile Manifesto (5/8/2019)
The Magic of Scrum, The Magic of Kanban – Why You Need Both (1/9/2019)
The Mediator (10/11/2019)
The Memento (10/3/2019)
The Minimum Business Increment (MBI) Template (5/26/2019)
The missing piece of Lean Portfolio Management (8/21/2018)
The Mistaken Assumptions of Essential SAFe and What They Tell Us (6/8/2019)
The Mock Object (9/26/2019)
The Most Important Part of an Agile Framework Is How it Is Adopted – Day 4 of #SAFeSummit countdown (9/29/2018)
The Multiple Values of Doing TDD (2/11/2019)
The need to teach the principles that drive practices with the practices (3/29/2019)
The New Scrum Game (10/1/2019)
The Next Chasm To Cross (12/31/2018)
The Next Generation of Business Value Realization (1/31/2019)
The Null Object (10/7/2019)
The Object Pool (10/31/2019)
The Observer (10/17/2019)
The Patterns Themselves (8/26/2019)
The Purpose of an Assessment (2/24/2019)
The purpose of tools in mid to large scale transformations (8/22/2018)
The real lesson in Steve Denning’s Understanding Fake Agile (6/17/2019)
The Real Reason the “Agile Wars” Are Destructive – It’s Not What You Think (4/1/2019)
The Relationship Between Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns (4/7/2019)
The Relationship Between Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns (4/29/2019)
The Relationship Between Visualization and Reorganization (11/19/2018)
The scaling we’ve forgotten (8/12/2018)
The Singleton (9/20/2019)
The State (10/15/2019)
The state of Agile (7/3/2018)
The State of Agile, overview of a 5 part series. (12/4/2018)
The Strategy (8/30/2019)
The surprisingly few degrees of freedom in an Agile adoption (12/2/2018)
The Template Method (10/15/2019)
The Third Leg of Emergent Design: Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) (1/23/2019)
The True Intention of Scrum (11/14/2018)
The Value of Refactoring Skills (5/14/2019)
The Visitor (10/4/2019)
There is cause and effect between actions and results (6/8/2019)
There’s more to coaching than “being” (7/9/2019)
Three ways to get trained in Scrum (1/30/2019)
Time to Say Goodbye to Empirical Process Control (2/11/2019)
Two approaches to training – you get to decide which you want (1/26/2019)
Two Different Kinds of Training (admittedly a rant) (1/23/2019)
Types of Processes (by Don Reinertsen) (2/10/2019)
Understanding Agile’s failures (8/24/2019)
Understanding the Concept of Testability: A Worthwhile Remembrance (2/23/2019)
Unexamined Assumption – Developers spend a lot of time fixing bugs. (11/26/2018)
Unexamined Assumption: use Essential SAFe for small and mid-scale companies. (11/27/2018)
Useful quotes when reflecting on current events (4/23/2019)
Using a Flow Model to Guide a Transformation (1/25/2019)
Using Cost of Delay to Improve Scrum (1/30/2019)
Using Double Loop Learning on Key Scrum Concepts to Improve Scrum (9/22/2019)
Using Lean to Focus on Your Work (1/24/2019)
Using the Theory of Flow to Illustrate Impediments in Two Hours Instead of Two Weeks (2/14/2019)
Value Streams in SAFe (9/3/2018)
Walking my Talk – Integrating our On-the-Job Online Master Class With our Onsite Class (1/29/2019)
Want an experienced person helping you with Lean and Agile proposals? (9/26/2018)
Want Some Free Advice on Solving Adoption Challenges in SAFe? Help Me with My Book. (12/22/2018)
We need disruption in Agile Training and Coaching (1/18/2019)
We need to focus on our work, not the framework (5/18/2019)
We shouldn’t be surprised by Dark Agile. We should be surprised Agile works as well as it does (9/14/2019)
What agreements does your approach suggest you make with each other across the organization? (7/14/2019)
What are you aligning around? (8/29/2018)
What Design Patterns Represent (7/10/2019)
What does scaling mean? Countdown #SAFeSummit #16 (9/16/2018)
What I Am Trying to Destroy (11/24/2018)
What I have Learned from Scrum (3/12/2019)
What I Think About Scrum (2/12/2019)
What if we treated our developers like we treat our customers? (5/10/2019)
What If? (7/23/2019)
What is the Most Important Question to Ask a Potential Trainer Teaching Anything But an Introductory Workshop (e.g. CSM)? (2/4/2019)
What is the purpose of a framework? 9 days to #SAFeSummit (9/24/2018)
What I’m Up To- Leading the Next Mindshift (5/14/2019)
What role do value streams play in your approach? (7/13/2019)
What role does Flow play in your approach? (7/5/2019)
What The Software Industry Needs the Most (1/13/2019)
What to do when prod management won’t provide MBIs to a program – SAFe countdown #10 (9/22/2018)
What to look for in frameworks and their providers (8/18/2019)
What Type of Client I’m Looking For. Maybe You’re Looking For Me (1/22/2019)
What We Can Learn From Mob Programming (5/1/2019)
What work we need to focus on (5/15/2019)
What’s Obvious or Quickly Learned As It’s Pointed Out #1 (8/28/2019)
What’s Obvious or Quickly Learned As It’s Pointed Out #2 (8/28/2019)
What’s obvious or quickly learned as it’s pointed out #3 (8/29/2019)
What’s obvious or quickly learned as it’s pointed out #4 (8/30/2019)
When given a requirement ask the question, “How will I know I’ve done that?” (7/20/2018)
When It Is Visualization and Not Reorganization – Verticals feeding horizontals (11/20/2018)
Why a good tool may be more useful than a good framework (8/31/2018)
Why Agile Coaches Need to Know Both Scrum and Kanban (1/7/2019)
Why Being Explicit in Workflow is Useful: Case Study, Scrum Based on Lean Flow (2/11/2019)
Why empirical process control is insufficient to do Scrum well (9/21/2019)
Why I Believe My Advanced SM/Kanban On-the-job Online workshop is my biggest contribution to Agile (1/15/2019)
Why I hate the term ScrumBut (9/15/2019)
Why I’m So Into Scaled Learning (1/4/2019)
Why I’ve Decided Not to Raise the Cost of Our On-the-Job Online Agile Coach Workshop (1/28/2019)
Why If You’re Asking “Should I Use Scrum or Kanban?” You’re Asking the Wrong Question (7/13/2019)
Why it’s so important to learn ATDD upfront (7/9/2018)
Why Learning How to Decompose Stories with Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) Is not Just Decomposition (11/13/2018)
Why Net Objectives Is No Longer Providing SAFe Training (12/11/2018)
Why Not Having Adopted Agile Yet May Be Your Best Competitive Edge (4/26/2019)
Why SAFe’s Top Layers Are Needed But Overly Complicated (4/1/2019)
Why Scrum Works and How This Tells Us When It Won’t (3/31/2019)
Why Shu Ha Ri and Scrum Can Make for a Dangerous Combination (4/1/2019)
Why TDD is more about design, emergence & sustainability than testing (1/10/2019)
Why teams starting out with SAFe need little SAFe training but do need ATDD up front – 6 days to #SAFeSummit (9/27/2018)
Why the belief that starting with a pre-set start creates consistency is flawed (8/15/2019)
Why the difference between “necessary” and “sufficient” is even more important in complex systems (9/2/2018)
Why the difference between “necessary” and “sufficient” is even more important in complex systems (8/29/2018)
Why We Need a New Meaning / Name for Kanban (6/26/2019)
Why we need a Scrum for Software Development Teams (7/24/2019)
Why We Need Adaptive Frameworks (5/11/2019)
Why We Need to Inspect and Adapt How We Do Scrum Training (11/10/2018)
Why we want to focus on Flow while using Lean and Agile (9/12/2019)
Why You Must “Do” Agile Before “Being” Agile (11/2/2018)
Why You Must Look for Best Practices in Complex Systems (1/9/2019)
Why you need to ‘do Agile’ to ‘be Agile.’ (7/4/2019)
Why you need to lead with Product Management regardless of your Agile approach (7/2/2018)
Why you need to start with ATDD with SAFe even more than with Scrum (7/1/2018)
Why you only need 2 hours to discover your impediments when you understand Flow (7/11/2019)
Why you should be a Lean coach regardless of the method you use (8/4/2018)
Why you should go beyond the Scrum Guide with Scrum (7/8/2018)
Why you should grow your own Scrum Masters instead of bringing in outside coaches (7/11/2018)
Why your Agile adoption should pay for itself within the first Program Increment (7/1/2018)
Writing a portal page on what you need to do to promote an adoption of Scrum. Here’s what I have so far (6/22/2018)
XP is not Scrum with tech practices & knowing why this is so is more important than ever before (9/27/2018)
Yes, I’m frustrated (1/28/2019)
You want to have Agile at scale but not to scale Agile (7/3/2019)
“Good” Tests in TDD (3/12/2019)