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Scrum Alone is Not Enough – An Interview with Mark Levison

Mark Levison recently wrote a blog on “Scrum Alone is Not Enough”, which is the first blog of a series to uncover various Agile patterns. Till now he has published blogs on Kanban Portfolio View and Portfolio Management in the series.

Savita Pahuja
on Jul 26, 2015
DevOps

DevOps & Product Teams - Win or Fail?

Peter Neumark found a new world when he moved from a DevOps infrastructure team to a Lean product team.How to experiment frequently while keeping operational performance? Platform teams to the rescue!

Peter Neumark
on Jun 29, 2015
Q&A with Dean Leffingwell on Leading SAFe LiveLessons

Dean Leffingwell’s “Leading SAFe LiveLessons” - training videos are based on Lean-Agile transformation concepts at enterprise level. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides practices, roles, activities and artifacts for applying Lean and Agile development at enterprise scale.

Savita Pahuja
on Jun 20, 2015
Q&A with Claudio Perrone on PopcornFlow / Evolve and Disrupt

At the Agile Eastern Europe 2015 conference Claudio Perrone gave a keynote titled "Evolve and Disrupt". InfoQ interviewed Perrone about continuous evolution, servant leadership, popcorn flow (an approach to continuous evolution through rapid experimentation), and doing experiments to make change more continuous.

Ben Linders
on Jun 12, 2015
Using Blocker Clustering, Defect Clustering, and Prioritization for Process Improvement

When work gets delayed (it’s blocked), it is of particular interest to look for ways to improve the smooth flow of work by resolving the causes of that delay. In the long term, finding ways to eliminate the root causes of these delays is a superior solution. This article discusses clustering blockers and provides ways to prioritize those blockers that have the most impact or are the quickest wins.

Troy Magennis Klaus Leopold
on Jun 08, 2015
The Essence of Flow

How do you get good flow? A common scenario in a software company is that too much is going on at once. We need a shift in mindset, to go from focus on resource efficiency to focus on flow efficiency. This article presents concrete examples on how to achieve flow by limiting WIP, reduce wait times and arrange cross-functional teams.

Tomas Rybing
on Jun 05, 2015
Culture & Methods

How a Flow Manager Helps Teams Deliver, Fast and Smoothly

As agile software delivery practices and management evolve, so, too, do the roles. kanban has introduced the idea of managing flow, one of the method’s core practices. With talented developers, quality advocates and user-experience designers, teams know how to deliver valuable software. But as we improve service delivery using kanban, who manages flow?

Matthew Philip
on Jun 03, 2015
Why We Fail to Change: Understanding Practices, Principles, and Values Is a Solution

There’s no reward for being a Scrum or kanban shop if we are not delivering value to customers. We see virtually no impact of agile or lean on the bottom line of success rates of improvement initiatives, because organizations often look for recipes. We need to change our mindset, and focus on the principles that people follow and values they share and the bigger whole: organizational culture.

Pawel Brodzinski
on Jun 01, 2015
Dealing with Politics in Agile or Lean Teams

InfoQ interviewed Katharine Kirk about how agile or lean can increase politics and how she combines ideas from agile and lean with eastern and tribal philosophy to deal with people issues that arise. InfoQ also asked her to give a different perspective and practical advice for addressing and navigating politics in organizations.

Ben Linders
on May 25, 2015
Impediment Busting: Designing an Impediment Removal Process for Your Organization

Lean Product Development takes an end-to-end focus on the flow of work through a system. Rather than focus on traditional measures such as capacity utilization, it proves more effective to focus on how work is moving through the system. This article discusses what impedes the flow of work, and how we manage impediments to the flow of work.

Ken Power
on Apr 15, 2015
Q&A on Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly

The book "Agile! The Good, the Hype and the Ugly" by Bertrand Meyer provides a review of agile principles, techniques and tools. It explores the agile methods Extreme Programming, Lean Software, Scrum and Crystal and provides suggestions on what to use or not to use from them, based on software engineering principles and research and personal experience of the book author.

Ben Linders
on Mar 13, 2015
Q&A with Andy Singleton on Unblock! A Guide to the New Continuous Agile

The book Unblock! A Guide to the New Continuous Agile by Andy Singleton provides ideas and practices for doing distributed cloud-based development with continuous delivery. It describes how you can build, test, and frequently release code, and how continuous agile can be used with strategies for managing teams, products, and enterprises in a continuous delivery environment.

Ben Linders
on Mar 10, 2015

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