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How to Make the Transition to a New Career
I've seen a number of individuals make transitions to new careers through all walks of life. Heck, I've seen English…
5 Tips to Help You Keep Your Daily Scrum In 15 Minutes (And Still Make It Productive!)
In this article, I will share some tips based on my experience helping teams learn to run productive Daily Scrums,…
The Future of Real-Time Communication Behind The Firewall
With Hipchat Data Center set to gradually be discontinued after February 15th, 2019, many organizations and teams that need to…
DevOps Metrics to Monitor Software Development
Presentation Abstract DevOps solutions are tying together increasingly complex tools, environments and solutions that can be challenging to manage and…
Iterative Development vs Agile
A few years ago I taught a class on Iterative Development. I taught it just once. I’m an Agile Expert,…
The clock is ticking but cut them some Slack! Hipchat and Stride set to retire.
What was once a competition fueled by cake and cookies between two leading competitors for team collaboration tools, Atlassian announces…
Classic Scrum versus SAFe Scrum
After studying the Scrum Guide on multiple occasions over the past few weeks in preparation for a PSM1 Scrum Master…
Lean and Agile Principles for Transformation at Scale
Agile - Roots and Current State When the concept of Agile delivery was originally designed, it primarily focused on improving…
First Netflix or Bust? “Product” made all the difference
I hesitated as my mouth hung open a bit. A senior leader in a development organization had just asked, “Why…
Understanding Product Vision and Project Scope
Raise your hand if you thought that the Product Vision and the Project Scope were the same thing? Don’t be…
Use Case 2.0 – The Perfect Solution to your Agile Requirements Problem?
You have just been approved to stand up a new Agile team to enhance speed of delivery, improve transparency, and…
Mixing Agile and other Life Cycles in Large Scale Complex Environments
Building large-scale software and cyber-physical systems are one of the most complex and challenging endeavors in the industry today. Lean…