The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation. – Agile Principle #6 If this maxim was not already almost dead, 2020 would have killed it anyway. If you’re like me,…
“Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.” — Agile Manifesto Principles #5 If you want to increase agility, you need to empower people to be flexible…
“Businesspeople and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” Agile Manifesto, Principle #4 The authors of the Agile Manifesto had seen too many development efforts languish because developers couldn’t get enough time with their counterparts in business to make…
Rapid Learning Cycles helps innovators change the world — faster. For the team at Kairos Power, Rapid Learning Cycles is accelerating the iterative development of advanced nuclear technology.
“Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.” Agile Manifesto, Principle #3 Agile development is iterative development, with work divided into Sprints, increments or development cycles. These…
“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…