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Learning and Liminality in Agile Adoptions

In this 4th article in the series about Open Agile Adoption Dan Mezick presents an approach to take advantage of the natural stress that come about when making change in organisations to help achieve sustainable agile transitions.

Dan Mezick
on Nov 16, 2013
Interview with Simon Brown about Sustainable Competence

Why are some teams successful while others are less than stellar? Can teams use processes to do their work? How can managers help teams to become better? And do we need incentives to improve the quality of software? InfoQ did an interview with Simon Brown about sustainable competence for continuous improvement, balancing people and processes, and software quality and architecture.

Ben Linders
on Nov 14, 2013
Agile Fluency: Finding Agile That's Fit-for-Purpose

The Agile Fluency model is a way of thinking about and planning investments to create the conditions of Agile that best fit your development effort, business need, and customer value. James Shore and Diana Larsen described it in the 2012 article "Your Path through Agile Fluency". This article by Diana aims to helps you to use the Agile Fluency model effectively.

Diana Larsen
on Nov 12, 2013
An interview with Vasco Duarte and Jason Little on Lean Change Management by Happy Melly Express

Change agents need a “constant stream of high-quality content to support their work” as Vasco Duarte from Happy Melly states. InfoQ did an interview with him on a new publishing business that aims to connect authors with their audience in a sustainable way, and with Jason Little, an author that will be publishing about Lean Change Management.

Ben Linders
on Nov 07, 2013
Scrum Master: Position or Role?

Scrum common wisdom says a Scrum delivery team needs a dedicated Scrum Master (SM). For new teams, this make sense. But as teams mature, do they still need a dedicated SM? Can an SM have multiple teams? Can the team assume the role within themselves? This article proposes that for mature teams, a dedicated SM is no longer needed.

Brian Lawrence
on Nov 05, 2013
Open Agile Adoption in Theory

In this 3rd article in the series about Open Agile Adoption Dan Mezick presents the theoretical background to the approach and explains why the techniques described in the other articles work to help achieve sustainable agile transitions.

Dan Mezick
on Oct 25, 2013
DevOps - Pivoting Beyond Pockets

Traditional Infrastructure Operations roles are no longer scaleable. The traditional system admin or the network engineer or the engineering roles such as storage engineers are rapidly changing. The difference between a developer and operations engineer are becoming more and more invisible and will eventually dissolve. This is part of a massive shift in the IT Infrastructure Industry.

Kamal Manglani Gerald Bothello
on Oct 22, 2013
Interview with Tiago Garcez about Why Agile?

“Would you recommend Agile in every situation?” The answer from Tiago Garcez on this question is “Yes!”. But sometimes people are unsure what agile means and what an organization can do to become agile? Tiago talked at Agile Tour Brussels about why agile is better suited to the challenges that companies are facing, the value that agile can deliver, and how you can start an agile transition.

Ben Linders
on Oct 10, 2013
Open Agile Adoption: The Executive Summary

Agile adoption is struggling - organisations mandate agile practices expecting teams to change their way of working but the changes don't seem to be sustainable. This is the second in a series of articles which examine why this is happening and suggest an alternate approach - Open Agile adoption based on invitation and engagement rather than mandate and instruction from above

Dan Mezick
on Oct 06, 2013
Creating a Culture of Learning and Innovation

Jeff introduces some of the steps the employees of a large engineering corporation took to begin building a culture of innovation by fostering continuous learning in the workplace. In an environment where engineering tended to wait for business direction and execute to that direction, they are now seeing engineering selling the business on new directions to explore.

Jeff Plummer
on Oct 01, 2013
Better Agile Adoptions

Agile adoption is struggling - organisations mandate agile practices expecting teams to change their way of working but the changes don't seem to be sustainable. This is the first in a series of articles which examine why this is happening and suggest an alternate approach - Open Agile adoption based on invitation and engagement rather than mandate and instruction from above.

Dan Mezick
on Sep 21, 2013
Kanban - Isn’t It Just Common Sense?

We have seen how the notion of heuristics is powerful when thinking about product development. The Agile Manifesto can be thought of as a set of heuristics, with individual Agile processes and practices. This Kanban Thinking model includes 5 kanban heuristics that encapsulate the key areas to focus upon, along with 3 impacts that encapsulate the areas of improvement.

Karl Scotland
on Sep 09, 2013

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