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Essays from March 2010
5 essays from March 2010
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Agile is easy! It’s making it work with your business that is hard!
Last week I gave a talk at Turku Agile Day. The premise of the talk was simple: adoption Agile in R&D only is not enough. The goal was to create simple model to guide us through Agile adoption in a company (as opposed to a team). I came up with a model that included 3 …
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We continue to miss the point. It is not Kanban vs. Scrum, it is “people over process”!
The Scrum vs. Kanban debates rage on in the blogosphere but I can’t help but feel that our Agile community is missing the point. Where is the “People and interactions over processes and tools” that is part of the core values? I commented on Rachel Davies’s post about what she calls W-Agile (waterfall disguised as …
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On the decay of old media: Helsingin Sanomat goes back to the 1990’s
I was skimming twitter this morning when I saw a link to an article/blog post in HS site about how they plan to “revolutionize” the way people interact/work with HS today. First let me get this out of my chest: whoever was tasked with creating this project is either a complete noob in this thing …
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The Kanban vs Scrum argument stinks! But, can we learn anything from it?
There were some interesting conversations on twitter last evening, so interesting that they are worth some comment. There was an interesting back-and-forth between @jurgenappelo and @agilemanager about whether it is possible to do Scrum in a “pull” mode or not as well as other issues. But this was just the tip of the iceberg of …
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How about the mistakes we did by not doing anything?
I’m sure there are many good quotes from Russel Ackoff. Here’s one that makes my day, I see this happening all the time! “Schools and other organizations use accounting systems that only record one type of mistakes. If you do something you should not have done you pay the price, but not when you don’t …
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