Topic Archives: Agile Adoption

Learn about the six agile enablement drivers that work together to create an ecosystem for realizing agile benefits in the organization.

If your agile transformation is struggling, then I recommend that you examine the current definition of your "System" and whether your activities take into account the interaction between the different components. Agile Stream Thinking focuses on engaging all key players in a given system and contribute to the Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) experiments and activities.

Transformation of an existing software development organization, to practice and embrace agile, is more than flipping teams. It is a commitment to adopt an alternative thought process, and practices focused on continuous improvement.

In this Section I will highlight the concepts of complexity and Cynefin framework to understand and frame your strategy based on the problem and system at hand.

Lean thinking differ in the subtle ways from Lean manufacturing, where the goal of lean thinking is to “understand how to seek dynamic gains rather than static efficiencies” compared to lean manufacturing where it is “a form of operational excellence aimed at taking costs out of processes.”

Managing agile projects and product delivery requires a transparent and scalable approach to examine progress while addressing planning uncertainty. Every team has a finite capacity to deliver working software within a Sprint. The capacity, which is measured in velocity points, varies in response to the effort of converting it to working software during that point in time and the team.

​If you make a search for the term "burn down chart", you are presented with more than a million results on that subject. Wikipedia defines it as a graphical representation of work left to do versus time, but for me it is much more than that. Burndown charts can be used on sprint and release levels to give a great deal of information in a very compact format.