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Survey: Does Adapting Agile Methods Help Adoption?
An academic survey on whether adapting agile methods to your context improves adoption and lasting change — testing the case for being agile about agile.
Read more →Insights
Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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When Kaizen Stalls, Try Personal Kanban
How personal kanban for leaders and management teams became the counter-measure to stalled kaizen — improvement actions finally get done instead of dropped.
Read more →Why Agile Testing
The business case for agile testing: faster feedback, higher quality, less stabilization cost, and testing that's embedded instead of a gate at the end.
Read more → Scrum ·
Promises You Can Keep, Without Sprint Commitment
How Scrum teams make reliable delivery promises without rigid sprint commitment — using Classes of Service to handle fixed-date items honestly.
Read more →The Scrum Commitment/Forecast as an Expectation
Treating the Sprint commitment/forecast as an expectation rather than a promise — a learning vehicle, not a delivery guarantee.
Read more → Kanban ·
Do we need stack ranking in a kanban system?
Stack ranking work items in a Kanban system: when explicit priority order earns its keep, and when WIP limits do the job instead.
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