Do Not Get Rid of All the Managers!
Are you a manager in a world that increasingly wishes you didn’t exist? The positional power structure of traditional management is at odds with an Agile approach. But, don’t despair… there’s hope!
How to Help 500 Squads Towards Agile Maturity
What a joy to be in a key leadership position in one of the largest-ever corporate experiments: the transition to new ways of Agile working. The presenter was accountable for establishing and operating the Centre of Expertise, New Ways of Delivering: how we uplift culture, delivery & technical capability.
Agile is not an Option
Agility is not an option. It is a matter of business survival. By now, we all know that software is at the core of most business. The world of business continues to accelerate at a pace that appears to be increasing. The key competitive advantage appears to have moved from …
Deliver Results, Not Just Releases
How do companies like Netflix, LinkedIn and Booking.com crush it year after year? Yes, they release early and often—but they also build control and observability into their continuous delivery (CD) pipeline to turn releases into results.
Great UX, Despite Agile
More and more, we hear UX design and agile software development in the same sentence. Many flavors of agile have borrowed from UX design practices successfully and agile practices have been influencing design methods for a long time. While there are many overlapping areas, there are fundamental differences between agile …
You Cannot Bubblebath The Burnout Away
Agile was supposed to free us from management, right? Self-organized, cross-functional Scrum teams who get stuff done without that old-guard hierarchy. In this fauxtopia, some software developers were more equal than others. Can we get the healthy parts back without the Lumberghs?