Leadership at Spotify
Spotify have been growing quickly as a company, and we are continuously experimenting with ways of making the company work as effectively as possible. Creating strong team autonomy and making […]
Principles of Lean|Agile Leadership
“It is not enough that management commit themselves to quality and productivity, they must know what it is they must do.” — E. Deming Scrum, XP and Agile are well […]
Challenge Your System View–Avoiding Bias Traps in Agile and Intrapreneurial Practices
You’ve been adopting Agile and want to scale. Perhaps you want to create an intrapreneurial practice in your organization. But as you scale Agile, you want to maintain or improve […]
Enterprise Agile? Are You Ready?
An agile enterprise increases value through effective execution and delivery in a timely and reactive manner. Such organizations do this by streamlining the flow of information, ideas, decision making, and […]
Moneyball for Software Projects: Agile Metrics for the Metrically Challenged
This session talks about how to capture metrics, how to identify which metrics carry the most information, and how to use metrics to forecast a future.
Problem Solving Teams: Creating resilient organisations through managing complexity
One reason many of us came to the field of software engineering or software development is because we enjoy solving problems. It exercises out mental muscles, and gives us a […]
Six Rules for Change
Change is often much slower than hoped for, and more painful than anticipated. In the end, you may be left with feelings of frustration and dismay rather than the benefits […]
Three Things You MUST Know to Transform Any Sized Organization into an Agile Enterprise
The deeper we go down the path of scaled agile transformation, the more we are learning that adding additional process and additional complexity can only ever get us part of […]
How to SWITCH to Agile in the Federal Landscape
The White House has recognized the need for change in the federal government in order to efficiently address advancing technologies and to deliver value to customers by taking advantage of […]
Nine Immutable Principles of Lean-Agile Development at Enterprise Scale
Software is consuming the world. Industries of all types are faced with growing competitive pressures that can be addressed only through more innovative and productive IT operations, software-based systems, products, […]
Entangled: Solving the Hairy Problem of Team Dependencies
When portfolio and program managers undertake quarterly (or annual) feature and portfolio planning, understanding team dependencies is made necessary to identify constraints and avoid overburdening one team. Complexity quickly grows […]
Programmer Anarchy and the Necessity of Managerless Processes
For solving certain classes of problems (Complex problems in the Cynefin model) and for achieving rapid, continuous delivery (exploiting MicroServices), managerless processes are not only feasible, but nearly indispensable. I […]
