Part 3 I first discovered Agile. Later on I discovered design thinking. Then I learned about scaled Agile and finally, Lean Startup. But once I had understood all four, I realised that I had a…
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The complex relationship between business management and agile (Phase 1&2)
Part 1: Have you thrown your customer out the window yet? Initially, when I step foot inside an organisation, I try to get a snapshot of what the business looks like. I look at how…
Agile 101 Webinars in December
https://youtu.be/wr1jyPqBuHk As promised, I will be running a series of one hour webinars later this week focusing on Motivation. It is perfect for anyone who is working with teams and wants to better understand how…
Focus on the relationships and leave the Scrum to get on with itself
Rolling out Scrum is not exactly rocket science. But people are. A few thoughts on bringing relationships front and centre I read an article recently that stated that in the UK, productivity has increased by…
Rolling out Scrum across a large enterprise
Recently, I have undertaken a number of roles as an Agile Engagement Lead and Coach, working with large corporates as they began the journey of migrating their operations and delivery to agile ways of working….
Security and agile delivery at an enterprise level
many of the places that I have worked, both as a consultant and as a part of a product delivery team, it is usually a case of keeping the Enterprise Information Security team (EIS) at…
A brief look at waterfall project management
So, let me talk about a word that crops up a lot when people are talking about Agile product development, the term “Waterfall”. Agile (and Scrum as a subset of agile) started in Software development….
Agile 101 Blog – Prioritization fundamentals
When we talk about prioritization, we are fundamentally talking about prioritizing the backlog, as this is the single source of truth when it comes to the product. We also know that it is the Product…
User Stories 102 – Focus on format
User Stories 101 – The format of a story There is an accepted format for user stories, and though there are variations, the fundamentals are widely used. AS a I want so that Example: As…
User Stories 101
When I began in project management, before the evolution of agile, we used waterfall methods. In practice, this meant that we started by doing our analysis, then our planning. When we completed planning, we progressed…