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Top 5 Sprint Metrics to Report to Your Stakeholders
If you are leading or working on an Agile team, you will most likely need to communicate progress and status…
How to Apply Agile to Non-Software Work
The concept of “Agile” has been tied to software development mainly because of the 2001 publication, The Manifesto for Agile…
How Do SAFe and Lean Work Together?
SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) is built on the foundation of Lean principles, which originated from manufacturing. “Lean” espouses optimization of…
SAFe DevOps: 5 Tips for Success
While some may disagree with this, I believe that SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) is a highly complex model that requires…
How to Implement SAFe for Very Large Projects
If you are thinking about applying SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), you probably already know that this is the most popular…
How Important is DevOps for Your Team and Organization?
In recent years, I’m sure you have heard a number of different definitions of the term DevOps, and you are…
What does a DevOps Engineer do?
In the past five years or so, I have seen a steady increase in job opportunities for a type of…
Is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Here to Stay?
As an Agile Coach, I have worked with many different frameworks while supporting a variety of clients over the past…
7 Things to Stop Doing in Kanban
As described in the Kanban Quick Start Guide and the Advanced Kanban Practice Guide which I developed a while ago,…
State of Kanban Report (2021) – 7 Key Takeaways You Need to Know
For unknown reasons, many people consider Kanban a “second citizen,” sitting behind the Scrum framework within many organizations. Interestingly, Kanban…
From Scrum Master to Agile Coach – 5 tips to help you make the transition
If you have been working as a professional Scrum Master for a few years, it is very possible that you…
Are you ready for SAFe? 5 questions to help you decide today!
If you have been working with Scrum or Kanban, or any other Agile approach, I am willing to bet that…