Its that time of year again where we exit the current year and enter the new. As is fashionable for a blog on Agile, Id like to do an end of year retrospective. First and foremost, Id like mention that I have blogged here for my first full year and …
So as a follow up to my post on the McDonaldization of Scrum, some numbers Ive just ran across seem to give credenceto my idea that Scrum is becoming quite the franchise.
According to a post by Jeff Sutherland, co-founder of Scrum, he points out t…
Some time ago I posted about the commodification of the IT project manager both on this site and my own site. I think many took it negatively, but I also think people are missing out on the positive side of that trend. It is that the field is becomi…
The Agile community is spawning new certification tracks that is starting to rival the PMI. A new kid on the block was just announced by the Lean-Kanban University and not surprisingly it is titled The Kanban Certified Professional or KCP for short….
I just read this very interesting article from The Economist about two very innovative game companies from Japan called DeNA, which has become famous for an addictive game called Blood Brothers and its rival GREE. Theyre both mobile game companie…
As a follow up to my post on Continuously controlled integration for Agile development, heres a Google Tech Talk video on using such practices to scale on a massive code base. Heres a snapshot of whats involved:
Even at this size, Google still …
Read this great article from the NY times by one of my favorite business writers Clayton Christensen. It was written just a few days before the presidential elections in which Obama came out the eventual victor and discusses the dilemma facing our c…
For Agile software development, Im a big advocate of XPs practice of continuous integration. This is the practice where a developer checks in code which triggers an automated system to compile and build the code into the system. One of my early p…
You knew it would happen and so it has, with the growing popularity of Kanban in recent years by the Agile community someone was going to merge Scrum with Kanban and call it something cute:Scrumban!(Scrum + Kanban). Before you roll your eyes and shr…
Yet another adoption of Agile outside of software development presents itself again with this article on how a retail outlet called Oddyssea based in Half Moon Bay, CA, used Agile development principles to deploy their retail operations:
On July 1…
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