“Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.” Agile Manifesto, Principle #2 Innovation is, by definition, uncertain. Ideas transform as they move through development, and even after a team launches its first…
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. Agile Manifesto: Principle #1 Given the IT backgrounds of the people who developed the Agile Manifesto, it’s no surprise that their first principle focuses…
The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001. Twenty years later, the web site, which still exists, looks like a relic of an earlier age. The simple web site design has not been updated, and the principles themselves have been frozen in…
Rapid Learning Cycles is Agile for Knowledge Work. Many Agile experts would disagree with this statement. Rapid Learning Cycles has evolved far away from its roots in Scrum and dictates few of the tools that fall into the Agile toolkit.…
I’ll never forget the week of March 9, 2020. For us, that was the week that everything changed. In that week, we cancelled all of our face-to-face workshops for 2020. I also agreed to facilitate my own first virtual Kickoff…