Once upon a time there was a pool. It was in a club called “the agile club” (of course), and “the agile club” people loved the pool. This pool had 6 lanes. Each lane was wide enough for 2 persons to swim in parallel. Because the pool was popular, sometimes in certain hours, there were
If business analysis is where we come up with ideas, then product development process is the factory that makes the vision real. What did we take from agile and how is it different today from 15 years ago? The magic word of today is SCALE. And the king of Scaled Agile is SAFe. I’ve already
Burn-down charts are awesome. They are part of agile’s set feedback loops increasing visibilty into the process. Take a look at a burn-down chart, and it will tell you if your agile team is on track or not. Here’s a simple example: Note that I haven’t used any unit on the Y axis. It can
You know what’s the best way to start the year? Going over success rates of projects! The Standish Group has been publishing the CHAOS report for more than twenty years now. I wasn’t surprised to find that they still use the same criteria for success and failure of projects. Here’s a summary of the CHAOS
When we think of regression, we think of bugs. That’s the first thing that pops into our minds. As with many other things, there’s a deeper meaning, if we just look closer. We have two kinds of usage for the word regression. We use it to describe a test suite (unit tests, integrgation tests, end-to-end
Is it the cool name? Is it the actual successes? Is it the drawings with lots of loops in them? Might be all, but above all else, there are the perceived (and maybe the not actual) value of agile, that organizations want. Let’s look at those: Reduced waste – When Lean was given its name,
Every time and again, I go back to the “4 ways that agile is declining post” to see if it is still relevant. I don’t get disappointed. Now that I am a full time agile coach, I’m in a kind of a fix. Agile has crossed the chasm, and scrum won as we all know.
Why do we keep trying to attain control? Looking at reality with agile glasses (and even without them), we don’t like uncertainty, and control over a piece of reality relaxes us. A controlled environment is good for our health. In fact, it seems that when we are in control we don’t need to do anything.
I had a great fun presenting at the Agile Practitioners meet-up today on “The New Agile”. Good feedback, and feels like a keynote. Here are the “New Agile” slides. The New Agile
So this came up a few days ago: “Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire”. My first thought was: “Of course scrum is failing him, he’s not actually doing scrum.” Second thought was: “He doesn’t understand agile at all, does he?” Third thought was: “Gil, you’re an idiot.”. Because I have been saying