InfoQ Homepage Adopting Agile Content on InfoQ
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David Anderson Talks Kanban, Agile and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium
David Anderson discusses using the Kanban concept to make software development more efficient, the use of Kanban in both a large enterprise organization and as a consultant, how Kanban (in association with related systems such as CONWIP and Drum-Buffer-Rope) is catching on in the industry and helping developers improve predictability of their software, and the Lean Software and Systems Consortium.
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Mary and Tom Poppendieck on Lean Software
Mary and Tom discuss the history of Lean, and what they feel are the most important things for software teams and organizations to thrive.Results are not the point, the point is growing your people, converting them into effective problem solvers who are relentlessly improving. If everybody in the organization is a problem solver, you'll get steadily better and better.
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Amr Elssamadisy on Making Agile Stick
Amr Elssamadisy talks about what makes Agile stick. Before Agile practices, before Lean or Scrum, it is important to have a team of individuals who know how to deal with problems, people who are ready to recognize a problem they have and know how to confront it.
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Mary-Lynn Manns on Fearless Change
Mary-Lynn discusses how Fearless Change presented patterns focused on the evangelist and the introduction of new change ideas into an organization. She goes on to note how the sequel, tentatively titled More Fearless Change, adds patterns that focus on gaining the necessary emotional and personal commitment to making change happen. She also talks about Agile and its adoption.
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Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership
Pollyanna Pixton talks about leadership, especially leading Agile teams, but more importantly what senior leaders do to help support their Agile teams in their organizations. She focuses on how leaders that are command and control can stay out of the way, step back and let teams and everyone below them make their own decisions and take ownership and deliver.
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Dan Mezick on Group Relations, Agile Games, and the Agile-PMI Initiative
Dan describes the importance of group relations to Agile adoption and how an awareness of group dynamics can help keep energy focused on the task at hand. He also suggests how Agile games can be used to prepare for an upcoming agile adoption by revealing an individual's willingness to participate fully. Finally, hshares his views on the new PMI-Agile community.
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Bas Vodde on Large Scale Scrum
Bas Vodde describes strategies for large teams with legacy software to adopt Scrum successfully. Bas discusses communication problems found in most component teams and why and how teams - especially large ones - should make the change to feature teams and how that change affects organizational structure.
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Lean Organizations to Support Agile Teams
Robin Dymond gives an overview of Lean, how it can help take Agile to the 'next level' and why organizations that fail to change will not have successful Agile teams. Robin describes an organizational mismatch between traditional hierarchies and team structures. He believes that organizations will need to reorganize around teams to get the most out of Agile.
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Pollyanna Pixton on Agile Leadership
Pollyanna Pixton tells us that within a culture of trust leaders must stand back and if they don't then they are hampering and restricting the productivity and the creativity and the innovation of teams. She discusses how leaders can foster a culture of trust and what they must do to get the most out of Agile teams.
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Linda Rising on "Fearless Change" Patterns
In this interview made by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, Linda Rising talks about the book "Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas" and offers examples of how the patterns presented in the book can ease the stress of Agile adoption.
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Jean Tabaka About Team Collaboration and RAPID Management
In this interview made by Deborah Hartmann of InfoQ, Jean Tabaka talks about team collaboration as a key ingredient of the Agile development, but she also mentions RAPID management as a solution for the product owners who found themselves in an Agile environment.
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Rachel Davies on Generic Agile
In this interview taken by Deborah Hartmann during Agile 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about Generic Agile, about the necessity to understand what is important in a development process, rather than sticking with a strict Agile method.
