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Agile Can Be Fun…And Enlightening!
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Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. –Alice Munro…
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Agile and the KRA Conundrum
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. -Viktor E. Frankl…
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The Agile Fairy Tale
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And the team continued to deliver working software every two weeks, happily ever after… A nice fairy tale ending…
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Process Standardization, Metrics, Agility et al.
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Information Technology organizations strive to create and maintain standardized processes that represent the organization’s unique identity, culture, geography, business domain, technology focus and people. An organization understandably evolves its own culture, but this culture varies with geographies, projects, teams and floors…
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Random Thoughts
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Recently I read The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eli Goldratt and Jeff Cox. I should have read it ages ago, but as they say “Its Better Late than Never”. It’s a thought provoking account of a plant manager trying hard to make his plant productive and come out of the red…
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Agile is not the Goal!!!
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When I started with one of my recent engagements as an Agile Coach, I inquired the team about the reason they decided to move to agile from the traditional way of working. The team being part of the vendor team in a client-vendor environment, I had expected a specific answer…