Read Time: 2 Minutes When asked “How would you know a good decision if you saw one”, audience members at PDMA’s Inspire Innovation conference September 18, 2023 in New Orleans said things like “Alignment with goal and vision” and “Aligned with expectations” and “True alignment (not just...
Read time: 3 minutes I often read through the passionate LinkedIn debates about whether Scrum has been successful. My observation is that much of the disagreement is based on the different environments in which Scrum is applied. My conclusion is that nobody’s wrong. I...
Read time: 3 minutes Feel like a voice in the wilderness in your organization? The Minimum Marketable Feature Set (MMFS) makes so much sense. Who could argue against getting software to market faster using smaller and more frequent releases? Is the business really that...
Read time: 5 minutes My last article provided an organizational behavior model of motivation, and how Agile can provide the frequent and timely positive reinforcement to create employee engagement. As leaders, our objective, and arguably our most important role, is to...
Read time: 5 minutes Everyone is looking for silver bullets. There’s a lot written about the secrets of motivation. If the secrets are out, why do so many organizations have unmotivated employees who come to work and do the minimum to get by? Here’s the promised secret of Agile...
Read time: 5 minutes My book, Unlocking Agile’s Missed Potential and my LinkedIn articles have a common theme – Agile has not met expectations because of the constraints of waterfall planning. I’m going to address Scrum specifically in this article. I’ll show you that...
Read time: 5 minutes My last article on business predictability asserts that we in software development are at a disadvantage relative to sales and manufacturing because we can’t define our output in terms of value that the business understands. Would you...
Product Innovation Process TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights 1. What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about Innovation In Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, people descend on a scrapyard to mine electronic waste for recyclable materials. Without formal training, these...
Read time: 3 minutes I’ve often heard complaints from software developers about product and project managers imposing schedules, usually at the feature level. Software predictability was never achieved with waterfall development. How was Agile going to provide...