The Quest for Stable Feature Teams in Real Life
The quest for stable cross-functional feature teams in real organizations: skill variability, management resistance, and the trade-offs against dynamic teams.
Management
-
- · Agile
Sensing Manager Engagement During Agile Change
How to sense and increase manager engagement during an agile change: pull-based techniques that keep managers captaining the ship instead of approving it.
- · Agile
The downsides of agile - guest post by Yaki Koren
A guest post on the real downsides of agile for managers: why people who like control find the move hard, and what it takes to make it work.
-
Starting with Managers Kanban
The Managers Kanban pattern: start the change with the management team, not individual contributors, using an end-to-end kanban system to build real buy-in.
-
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.
-
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.