Cloudification as the Agility booster for Value Streams
We live in an era of accelerated digital disruption, where the aggregate effect of rolling waves of new market entrants have already pushed many incum ...
List of Agile and change-driven management Articles
Combining the power of Scaled Agile and Cloud Centers of Excellence in Digital Transformation
In today’s digitally-disrupted landscape, we are seeing an accelerated paradigm shift in all industry sectors, where both the incumbents and the ...
How to avoid the agile doghouse?
For any organisation, in any industry or sector, there will always be drivers for change. What the adoption of an agile mindset does is enable a flexi ...
Navigating Enterprise Scaled Agility by OKR and KPIs
“We cannot improve what we don’t measure!”, you have probably seen and heard a variety of versions of this quote, and it is essentia ...
Agile Value Delivery Optimization through Flow KPIs
To succeed in an Enterprise Agile Transformation, and more importantly, to continue to maintain the achieved new state (Agile Value Delivery Optimizat ...
Agile Budgeting in the 2020s
When we finished the second decade of the 21st century, the aggregate threat of the newly arrived digital-native market disruptors had alre ...
The Rise of The Anti Agile
When I started into the realm of Agile in 2006 by attending my first ever certificate training course in the field (Certified Scrum Master), the major ...
Overview of the Scrum Process
The core of Scrum, occasionally referred to as the "Game", describes how to prepare and run Sprints. While not officially described as such in the S ...
Agile Frameworks #8 - BDD
Behavioral Driven Development incorporates concepts from Test-Driven Development and domain-driven design. Test-Driven Development is an approach to ...
Top 10 Ways to Fail in Enterprise Agile Transformation
As we all know, market research pioneers such as Deloitte, Gartner and McKinsey have been busy checking the pulse on Agile adoption by enter ...
Coaching Advice for the Agile Executive
Over the past 15 years we have witnessed a growing presence of millions of small businesses (and start ups) surfing the waves of Digital Disruption an ...
Agile Database Development: Culture and Practices
All architectures become iterative because of unknown unknowns, agile just recognizes this and does it sooner. – Mark Richards Here are som ...
Is Agile really the ideal model that does not work?
I have been surrounded by agilists my entire career, and it seems to me that they adopt the model as it was a truism.Back in 2007, the DevOps movement ...
How to Avoid the Enterprise Level Gaming of Agile Metrics
Over the past couple of decades, the mindset of “Faking it, till making it” had become the motto of Start-ups and pioneering teams and a v ...
Top 10 Executive Considerations in Transforming into an Agile Enterprise
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed an accelerating rise in market disruptions introduced by companies that barely existed before that era. The ...
Lean Thinking applied to Estimating
Here are some questions that you may have heard: Does your user care whether a feature will take 2 days or 20 days? Or perhaps, Does the stakeholder c ...
What is Agile ?
Agile development refers to a group of development methodologies based on iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve through colla ...
The Pandemic-Triggered Agile Paradigm Shift in “Co-location” of Teams
The Covid-19 pandemic had – and still has – a profound impact on how we work.When the world noticed in March 2020 that this we are dealing ...
A cure for agile
In a previous article, I wrote about the issues I have with agile, particularly in fixed priced environments like agencies. Here are some thoughts on ...
Are Agile and Scrum the Same?
Several project management practices have been introduced over the years to ensure effective team management and optimal collaboration in the wor ...
Scrum Master: The continuous improvement of the mindset
Part 1: The GoalI recall so well the emotions I felt during my first days as Scrum Master. It was the beginning of 2012, I attended full of enthu ...
Why Elephants Cause Project Failure (and a few other causes too)
I’ve been involved in Project Management for the last 15 years, in a number of industries, and I’ve seen the same issues occur again and a ...
Project Management And Kanban
Ninety-seven percent of organizations believe project management is critical to business performance and organizational success.In today&rsq ...
Agile Project Management: Self-Assessment (and Interview) Questions
How would this list benefit you?If you are new to Agile, keep these questions in mind as you learn. These questions can help put some structure around ...
How and Why to do project management in agile-based Companies?
As you know, now days everyone goes for Agile (I’m an advocate too), while many people say “We are agile”, in the meantime, when the ...
How Agile Made Me a Better Marketer
While agile has been historically used in software development, its success in helping organizations “build the right stuff, fast” has led ...
Having an Agile mindset - 5 simple and successful ways
You don’t need to be fully trained on all the Agile principles, frameworks, methodologies and tools before even attempting to do Agile or be in ...