We’ve all seen it happen. Though we try to show organizations the benefits of using a mature agile delivery framework, we still run into roadblocks.  Though the status quo is killing their organization, some barriers to further Agile adoption happen way too often among organizations that need it most.  I recently had a client ask […]

Last week was the PMI Global Congress 2013 North America, hosted in New Orleans. There were several agile talks, some loved and some not so loved. And there were some great agile exhibitors there in VersionOne, Rally, and LeanKit. Meanwhile, my talk on large scale agile methods was part of the “strategic track” and yielded […]

What does the system test or integration team do during development sprints? What do Scrum delivery teams do during the release sprint or hardening sprint? What proportion of a Scrum team’s time should be split between supporting the release-level activities of an integration team, versus planning for the next release? Shouldn’t we stagger our product […]