Kanban ·
Virtual Horizontal Swim Lanes on a Kanban Board
How to use card types and filtering to build multi-level Kanban boards without physical swim lanes: a practical pattern for Features and Stories.
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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Blog ·
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.
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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.
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