Words Mean Things – Velocity
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Edward Thorndike As everyone knows, many challenges we have in software development are around semantics. People seem to really get...
View ArticleAgile Lean Metrics – How Big Should Your Experiment Be?
Agile 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee has officially wrapped up. The atmosphere was lively and informative, with all the great vendors and speakers making this a great show. If you missed this year’s...
View ArticleCure Your Agile Planning and Analysis Blues: Top 9 Pain Points
Guest post by Ellen Gottesdiener, Founder and President of EBG Consulting If you’re on a team that’s transitioning to lean/agile, have you experienced troubling truths, baffling barriers, and veritable...
View ArticleMeasuring What Counts: Introducing the Better, Faster, Cheaper, Happier...
At Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) we have been involved in many agile adoptions ranging in size from single teams to entire IT development organizations. The single biggest problem we see is...
View ArticleExecutive Visibility in Successful Agile Enterprises
A colleague recently asked me, “What if developers only got paid when features ship?” “They’d only do the easy ones,” I replied, only half-joking. But as I thought about it more, I asked myself, “What...
View ArticleAgile Metrics – Measuring What Actually Matters
Do you really know how your agile teams are doing? As organizations transform to agile and stand-up multiple teams it becomes almost impossible to see how healthy all those teams are in a consistent...
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