No challenge is too large for the mind or the will of men!
Every day when we come to the office we tend to get bogged down in the minutia of the day. Email, Instant Messages and Phone calls take our time in between meetings. We stay busy and work extra to keep up with the daily barrage of information. Yesterday was June 6, and it was […]
Mike Cohn’s Latest – Advantages of the “As a user, I want” user story template.
In my user stories book and in all my training and conference sessions on user stories I advocate writing user stories in the form of: “As a , I want so that .” While I consider the so-that clause optional, I really like this template. At a conference, someone asked me why. Because I get […]
Mike Cohn’s Latest – How to Ensure you are Working the Most Important Items
https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/how-to-ensure-youre-working-on-the-most-important-items-each-iteration
Knowledge and Knowledge Management
There is a lot of talk about Communities of Practice (CoP). You may have already heard about something called a Center of Excellence (CoE). While the 2 entities have common goals and objectives and generally support improvement throughout the organization, they are targeted towards different groups and ways of interacting. As background, it is important […]
What makes agile, Agile?
The early founders of the ‘agile movement’ we’re just people who had been involved in solution development and just spent time thinking about how they could do their jobs better. They spoke plainly and tried to use basic concepts that could guide their decision making and be repeatable. Often in our daily lives we will […]
Discipline vs. Process
In many organization when they decide to do an agile transformation it is typically to do either a process swap or ‘agile’ or scrum for waterfall. Usually this is done with the noble goal of producing ‘business agility’. The transformation should not be about the business, it should be about the people. This misrepresentation is […]
People vs. Resources
Human Resource Management may be the greatest misnomer in the history of all management activities. This statement is not intended as a slight to the professionals who serve organizations by helping to acquire and keep talent, but it is a tacit recognition that we are all human. We are all part of the larger community […]