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…
Archive of Tag 'productivity'
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…
Are there bits and pieces of your company that suffer from “Never been done before, and therefore not a viable option for us?” The operations best practice entitled DevOps may fall into…
“Seeing is believing.” “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Photography can be stunning and eye-catching and, occasionally, even free. Yes, photography can certainly document a story. But an illustration can…
Google has become one of the most successful companies in history, in part due to its ability to tell us who we are. Asking metaphorically, Is Google a prophet? Can it predict…
What does culture — that quality in groups of people that govern what we believe and how we behave — have to do with “getting things done”? And by extension, what does…
During a recent trip to Japan I found several examples of how culture plays a role in the success of certain types of business. So dramatic are some of the differences between…
We’re all just trying to make a living and it helps to have friends who all get along — but some people are particularly adept at making it worse than it has…
