How does a Kanban board look like for a FPGA team? How does it differ from a typical software development board? How about mechanical engineering team? How would you handle integration points in hardware projects using Agile? Here are some ideas and a few concrete examples.
Many times you see teams working in an Agile way, but the security related activities comes in at the end, e.g. penetration tests. How can we do better? What’s the best point to do code analysis, both static and dynamic especially from security perspective? Can we automate most of security concerns? Here’s a look at how we can deal with security while working at Agile speed.
Does it matter whether an approach is or isn’t “Agile”? Kanban? Scrum? Is Agile a “thing”, and that everyone should do it? What does really matter? Does the only thing that matter is how you operate your work, and whatever maximises happiness? Here’s an interesting piece from Ron Jeffries.
Let’s say you are coaching your Product Owner. What sort of questions should you ask to help them become a better Product Owner? How would you help them see if they are on an improvement journey? What kind of questions are important from product, team, value, stakeholder and customer perspective? Here are 10 Product Owners questions, which they can apply in their own context.
Innovation is mostly considered startup territory. What can you do to enable sustainable innovation within organisations? Innovation that leads to long term business wins, instead of short term vanity. How to establish innovation clusters that remain productive even in larger organisations, which are not known for breeding sustainable innovation? Here are 6 questions to ask before establishing such initiatives.
As the time goes by, and the years roll in, does it become easy for Scrum Masters to do their job? How about Scrum Master as a coach? Does it become easier over time? What’s more difficult, coaching a world-cup football team, or coaching a football team of 6 year olds? What do you think? The answer is not a easy one, here’s why.
Cynefin is a good framework to understand the nature of the problems we face. It helps us adopt a suitable approach. It can help us understand what can we do to reduce the biggest risks. How can we identify what are the areas where we are more likely to encounter big risk, and navigate uncertainty, using Real Options? How to practice Deliberate Discovery? Here’s a good introduction to Cynefin.
What are some critical and valuable Lean metrics? If you were to define basic Lean metrics, what would you measure? Let’s assume you go to renew your driving license. If you think about the process end to end, what would you measure? Here’s what some basic Lean metrics can look like using the driving license example.
AGILE
How can Agile Help Hardware Teams?
How does a Kanban board look like for a FPGA team? How does it differ from a typical software development board? How about mechanical engineering team? How would you handle integration points in hardware projects using Agile? Here are some ideas and a few concrete examples.
jrothman.com
How to Build in Security at Agile Speed?
Many times you see teams working in an Agile way, but the security related activities comes in at the end, e.g. penetration tests. How can we do better? What’s the best point to do code analysis, both static and dynamic especially from security perspective? Can we automate most of security concerns? Here’s a look at how we can deal with security while working at Agile speed.
dzone.com/articles
Isn’t Kanban Agile? What about Scrum?
Does it matter whether an approach is or isn’t “Agile”? Kanban? Scrum? Is Agile a “thing”, and that everyone should do it? What does really matter? Does the only thing that matter is how you operate your work, and whatever maximises happiness? Here’s an interesting piece from Ron Jeffries.
ronjeffries.com
PRODUCT OWNER
10 Key Questions for Product Owners
Let’s say you are coaching your Product Owner. What sort of questions should you ask to help them become a better Product Owner? How would you help them see if they are on an improvement journey? What kind of questions are important from product, team, value, stakeholder and customer perspective? Here are 10 Product Owners questions, which they can apply in their own context.
blog.scrum.org
How to Avoid Innovation Theatre?
Innovation is mostly considered startup territory. What can you do to enable sustainable innovation within organisations? Innovation that leads to long term business wins, instead of short term vanity. How to establish innovation clusters that remain productive even in larger organisations, which are not known for breeding sustainable innovation? Here are 6 questions to ask before establishing such initiatives.
steveblank.com
AGILE
Does It Become Easier for Scrum Masters Over Time?
As the time goes by, and the years roll in, does it become easy for Scrum Masters to do their job? How about Scrum Master as a coach? Does it become easier over time? What’s more difficult, coaching a world-cup football team, or coaching a football team of 6 year olds? What do you think? The answer is not a easy one, here’s why.
mountaingoatsoftware.com
Introduction to Cynefin
Cynefin is a good framework to understand the nature of the problems we face. It helps us adopt a suitable approach. It can help us understand what can we do to reduce the biggest risks. How can we identify what are the areas where we are more likely to encounter big risk, and navigate uncertainty, using Real Options? How to practice Deliberate Discovery? Here’s a good introduction to Cynefin.
www.tvagile.com
Basic Lean Metrics
What are some critical and valuable Lean metrics? If you were to define basic Lean metrics, what would you measure? Let’s assume you go to renew your driving license. If you think about the process end to end, what would you measure? Here’s what some basic Lean metrics can look like using the driving license example.
dzone.com/articles
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