Category: Agility
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Performance Management Programs and Annual Appraisals
Corporations adopting Agile practices on their way towards being Agile often struggle with many legacy operational policies and procedures. One question that always comes up is how to conduct performance management appraisals with employees when Agile Teams are supposed to be Self-Directed, Self-Managed and mostly autonomous?
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Scaling Agile Doesn’t Necessarily Lead to Business Agility
You don’t scale agility. You create a business-market fit with adaption capability.
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The Awesome Singh Estimation Technique (TASET)
Introduction I spoke to the DC Scrum Users Group this topic around a year ago and wanted to unleash this virus on the world. The Awesome Singh Estimation Technique (TASET) is a technique learned from Alex Singh and honed over the course of two years while working with BigVisisble’s clients and recently while working with…
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Who Owns the Space In Between?
GUEST BLOGGER Stuart Scott “Making space for powerful conversations” After 20+ years in the software business, Stuart tends to look at software development in terms of human interactions. After all, most of the effort that goes into creating, selling, and using software consists of people working with people to serve people. And most…
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Lessons Learned From Five Years of Agile Implementation Failures – AgileDC 2013 Presentation
< p> Well, another year of AgileDC is in the can. This year was another winner. Even though the flavor at AgileDC is always biased towards the Federal Government, it was strange that the topics seemed to be diverse and more engaging than those at the Agile Alliance‘s Agile 2013. I confess that the topics…
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Story Mapping – So Easy a 7th Grader Can Do It
A quick story about how easy the practice of Story Mapping is for a 7th Grader.
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Pareto’s Principle and that Sucking Sound in your Organization
Think about this statement: 80% of the people that need your help don’t know they need your help. Here is another statement: 80% of the people that need to read this blog post will never search for it. Another: 80% of the people that actually find this post and read it won’t actually believe it.…
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NFL and ESPN leaving money on the table?
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Overcoming the role of cognitive bias in critical decision making
Folks attending Agile 2013 got a treat this yesterday. Former colleague Manoj Vadakkan and Agilist Bob Payne are going to address how cognitive bias plays a role in Agile Adoption . In researching and garnering feedback, Manoj and I were swapping anecdotal stories of cognitive bias. I’m going to share two here. If you happen…
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Agile Groups in the Washington DC Metro Area
List of Agile professional organizations/groups in the Washington DC Metro Area