Behaviors and Culture Can Impair Creating Good Product

When adopting an agile way of working, changing culture not the banner you put up on the wall. Instead, we apply a set of good
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Words Mean Things – Waterfall

Talking about waterfall project management is not something we hear as much in 2022 as we did in 2012 – ten years has changed a
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Words Mean Things – Efficient and Effective

It seems like there are many words we use that may or may not be the meaning or context we actually want as an outcome.
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Best Day Ever

Back in 2015, I originally wrote this article on Agile Bacon. I wrote this at time while working with teams and leaders that seemed to
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10 Causes of Chaos in Agile Software Development

It is not too uncommon for teams to have ebbs-and-flows on the roller-coaster of Forming-Storming-Norming-Peforming. But when teams are using agile frameworks, specifically Scrum, things
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An Agile Team Task by Any Other Name – A To-Do

High-performing agile teams are considered self-organizing and accountable. These attributes are put on display during sprint planning when the team decomposes a user story into
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Testivus for the Rest of Us: A Whole Team Testing Experience

Dealing with defects and staying on top of code bugs can be challenging for teams when you are chasing a release date. Well, take a
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10 Ideas to Make Backlog Refinement Rock

No matter what agile framework you are using, the value of an awesome, team-oriented backlog refinement is amazing for the delivery of products your customers
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Using a Hero’s Journey to Create an Inspiring Vision

A key ingredient to grit is having a mental image of what things will look like if we are successful. Well, that is what a
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