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.
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 …
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?
This short video reconciles the perceived differences in Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile software development by focusing not on rituals and practices but on the values that underpin all three methods. As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the …
Many software systems contain code that is overly complicated, hard to understand, and hence expensive to change and evolve. Prioritizing technical debt is a hard problem as modern systems might have millions of lines of code and multiple development teams, so no-one has a holistic overview. In addition, there is …
In this talk Shane explores these topics and relates it to his own journey to becoming a recognized expert coach through a competency-based assessment (ICE-AC). Agile Coaching is a relatively new discipline and there is a lot of misunderstanding about why coaching is useful, what skills and competencies an agile …
