Business Owner: The Most Critical Role for the Future of Agile
Business Agility is the new buzzword when we talk about agile transformation in terms of the whole organization. We’ve seen the growing of agile at scale in terms of processes […]
In Principle We Agree: From Development to Organizational Agility with Holacracy
While Agile methodologies have proven successful in product development, conventional departmental organization structures may pose challenges to scaling agility and achieving the desired efficiency at the organizational level. Schneider Electric […]
The Future Looks Awesome, and Moving Beyond Agile
Agile approaches succeeded and changed the way we work. They brought the philosophy and tools previously used by only the high performing teams to the majority of organizations. Now it […]
Teal Enough: Tales from a small company trying to grow, retain culture and be Agile
The Lithespeed team first read Frederic Laloux’s “Reinventing Organizations” in 2015. We immediately said ‘Hell yes, we are doing this – we should never work any other way!’ Fast forward […]
The Inclusive Agile Accelerator: How to Improve Learning and Inclusion in the IT Industry
For seven years, and running fifteen editions, in Brazil, we have been evolving a not-for-profit immersive and educational program through a university-corporate partnership, that has achieved consistent impact on job […]
How I tried Holacracy and Lived to Tell the Tale
This is the story of introducing Holacracy at a New Zealand tech company, whose CTO gave me a one-line instruction: “I’d like you to make it happen.” Come along and […]
A Descriptive Scaled Agile Meta-Framework
There are numerous competing frameworks that exist in the space of “scaling Agile” – SAFe, DAD, RAD, and others. A common thread to most, if not all, of these is […]
Embracing Open Agility: Tales and Fails From Our Company-Wide Agile Journey
Does VeriShip use components from: Scrum? Yes. Kanban? Yes Lean Startup? Yes. DevOps? Yes. Mob Programming? Yes. Stuff we’ve completely made up? Yes. People Operations? Yes. You might say this […]
Deep Stack – Tracer Bullets and ZOMBIES in a Green Field IoT Product
A blank page can be very intimidating, even for a Test-driven developer. Where do we start? Write a test, right? Not always. I’ve heard TDD learners say: “I don’t know […]
An Agile Triple Play: Business Process Re-Engineering meets SOA meets Large Scale Agile
This experience report will address the volatility, challenges and solutions implemented within a Fortune 500 Order to Delivery manufacturing program with the goal of re-engineering and aligning global business processes […]
Deep Stack – Tracer Bullets from ADC to Browser
A blank page can be very intimidating, even for a Test-driven developer. Where do we start? Write a test, right? Not always. I’ve heard TDD learners say: “I don’t know […]
Remote Pair Programming: A Guide for Distributed Teams
Learn how to implement remote pair programming so that you can realize the benefits of pairing and address some challenges of distributed development.