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.…
Up to this point in the story, I had assumed that the Knowledge Gaps would go into a backlog that the team would manage in the same way that software teams manage their backlog of user stories. As soon as…
When I started applying the lessons from my “Scrum for Knowledge Work” in product development teams with deadlines, it became clear right away that some things were working better than others. The structure made it possible to implement Dr. Ward’s…
I was fortunate to work in an Advanced R & D lab first, because the entire mission of such a lab is to learn, and then share what they learn. All the burden of execution belongs to other teams. This…
Most of what passes for “Agile for Hardware” is really Scrum for Hardware: organize work into sprints, manage tasks with backlogs, and perform the “ceremonies” of Agile: daily scrums, etc. Or they impose another Agile method, asking the hardware teams…
Last week I had a frustrating conversation with an Agile Software Development expert, focusing on Agile for Hardware, who shall remain nameless. In that conversation, the person argued that organizations didn’t need — and didn’t want — more than one…
Last week I had a frustrating conversation with an Agile Software Development expert, focusing on Agile for Hardware, who shall remain nameless. In that conversation, the person argued that organizations didn’t need — and didn’t want — more than one…
When people with Agile experience see the Rapid Learning Cycles framework, it looks familiar. That’s not an accident. Our first attempts with Rapid Learning Cycles used Scrum. We knew that some people in the Scrum world, including some well-known consultants,…