The challenges leaders face today aren’t new — but they feel different. Decisions that once felt grounded now carry more uncertainty, even when leaders are drawing on experience that has served them…
About Jeff Hayes
Jeff Hayes works with senior leaders navigating complexity, pressure, and change. His work focuses on helping leaders slow down, see patterns more clearly, and make sound decisions in uncertain conditions.
You may have noticed that I no longer refer to the development team, or Dev Team, in the title of this series and this is for a good reason. Ken Schwaber and…
The last two articles focused on Scrum team performance as a whole and rudimentary skills for dev team performance, the first of three requirements of a development team to help it achieve…
Before we get back to our discussion on Scrum team performance, let’s take a look at a real world example of how agile works versus how waterfall works (or doesn’t). Coronavirus and…
Who benefits from a Scrum team that is formed with a clear understanding of the rules, roles, events and artifacts of Scrum, accelerates its productivity in the short term, and continues to…
Generally speaking, Scrum development teams benefit from specific performance improvement processes. And who better to help teams through such processes than an agile team coach? This post presents the critical skills needed…
What does it take for an organization to become “fully agile?” The short answer is desire: The desire to… Improve customer satisfaction Engage employees more fully Produce greater value for the organization…
This post reflects earlier thinking and context. It’s preserved for reference but no longer represents the primary focus of AlignTech Solutions. How does a company identify and hire an excellent Scrum master…
Agile software development is iterative and incremental in nature as I discussed previously in Agile Methods Provide the Greatest Value to Organizations. Its earliest manifestation is probably in work performed by IBM…
This post reflects earlier thinking and context. It’s preserved for reference but no longer represents the primary focus of AlignTech Solutions. This is an introduction to agile thinking as it is realized…
