Allowing Agile people to form their own Scrum teams, through team self-selection, can be a powerful approach to promote empowerment and to form viable teams with fast transition towards high performance. However, if the process is not carefully facilitated, team self-selection may lead to dysfunctional teams and disgruntled team-members.
Is agile now more about process than people? Frameworks tend exclusively to process & have no opinion on how engineers should build software. At it’s core, XP is all about engineering & “Continuous attention to technical excellence”. It’s time to put the spotlight back on XP as a path to …
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!
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.
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 …
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.
