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Agile Coach Camp Atlanta – November 1-3, 2013 22 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
LeadingAgile is psyched to announce that registration is officially OPEN for Agile Coach Camp Atlanta, November 1-3. *Applause* Not familiar with Coach Camp? All the more reason to join us. This fal...
Gaining Support for a Sustainable Agile Transformation 14 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
Here is the talk that Dennis and I did at the Agile2013 conference. The talk basically went over how to create safety and visibility for management when doing an enterprise wide agile transformation. ...
Bottom-Up Implementation & Top-Down Intent 23 Jul 2013 | 04:15 pm
A good strategy that I have used for dealing with complex agile transformations in large enterprises has two parts: bottom-up implementation and top-down intent. As Mike puts it, this is “where leader...
Do You Know Where You Are Headed? 18 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm
There is a saying that goes something like this: If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there. When we create new products or add new capabilities to an existing product, we typi...
Lack of Predictability: Your Biggest Problem 16 Jul 2013 | 04:13 pm
What I’m seeing at many of my clients is an inability to know what will be completed in the next release. This shows up as missed dates and frustration over broken commitments and “unreliable teams”. ...
Defect Driven Test Automation 13 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
A team needs guidelines when starting to use automated tests. Not only is the development of tests expensive in terms of development time but on going maintenance of test also consume development ti...
Agile Health Metrics for Predictability 8 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
LeadingAgile uses Agile Health Metrics to demonstrate the results of our process improvement efforts and to identify areas that need further improvement. We have many internal documents describing our...
How Do You Know Your Metrics Are Any Good 4 Jul 2013 | 06:35 pm
So you want to create some metrics. More importantly, someone has told you that you need to create some metrics. How do you know if you’re just making work for yourself or if you’re just putting a s...
Agile Release Planning Kick-Starts Agile Adoption and Yields Quick Wins 3 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Organizations just starting out in their adoption of Agile software development are eager to begin seeing results. After proper Agile teams have been formed and trained in the basics of Agile, they ar...
Use Feature Teams. Yes, Use Component Teams 2 Jul 2013 | 04:59 pm
This is a follow-on to my post on starting an agile transformation with Structure 1st and to Mike Cottmeyer’s great article on feature teams and component teams and is based on some discussions I’ve h...