The Japanese Roots of “Scrum”, Part I
I’m sure many of us in the software development world are aware of “Scrum.” Scrum was derived from a Seminal Paper by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka It is certainly worth a read (linked above)....
View ArticleRefactoring the Scrum Lexicon
There has been much discussion lately regarding reforming some of the words in the Scrum Lexicon. I welcome such long overdue discussion, for several reasons. 1) It obviously demonstrates that even the...
View ArticleCultural aspects of bringing Lean, Kanban, TPS, Scrum and other Japanese...
As most of us are aware, techniques such as Kanban, Lean, TPS, and Scrum are based on Japanese project management techniques. In this post, I am going to talk about the cultural aspects of business in...
View ArticleLack of Scrum Success stories a Growing Concern?
Scrum is nearly 20 years old and has enjoyed significant popularity in recent years. But that popularity has not manifested itself in terms of visible success. There have been repeated requests, for...
View ArticleEnthusiasm and Astroturfing in the Agile Landscape
Agile is so cool isn’t it? And our team is so much more productive since we’ve switched to Scrum — in fact we’ve decided to reorganize our entire lives around lean/kanban culture It seems like you...
View ArticleBy Popular Request: What my Approach Is
I’ve been asked on several occasions what my general approach is for software development. Although I don’t have particular “hard rules” for how things must be done, I do have a number of general...
View ArticleMy most Relevant posts on Agile organized for your reading pleasure
Since blogs in general and this one in particular tend to highlight recent postings, and since reading my recent postings alone will not really provide the context to understand what my major points...
View ArticlePost Agilism: Moving beyond the outdated and misdirected aspects of “Agile”
Cell Phone 1992, Credit: SF Chronicle The Software World is moving beyond “Agile” into the post-Agile world — and for good reason. The main problem with Agile, is that it was invented in the 90s, to...
View ArticleDeath by a thousand cuts, Agile/Scrum style — an example
TerraT posted an interesting comment on this blog post. I thoght I’d repost it here since it is illustrative of the slippery slope a project can get on when doing a “by the book” agile adoption and...
View ArticleThe Perennial Waterfall Strawman/Myth
Just as the ‘abominable snowman’ never existed, and is merely used to frighten children from playing in the snow too long, “Waterfall” is just as nonexistent and is used by agile coaches as propaganda...
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