Distributed Teams Revisited - Tips and Tri [...]
I’ve been working with distributed teams for a long time – about twenty years now. Some of those teams have been based in Europe, some in India, and some across the [...]
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Category: Distributed Agile Development
Integrated or Independent Nearshore Teams
When a company looks at nearshoring (or offshoring, but I obviously recommend nearshore) they’re faced with the question of whether to integrate the nearshore teams into [...]
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Is Your Agile Community Vibrant?
When I was traveling for work a lot, I checked to see what kinds of agile events were happening there. Sometimes I found that a vibrant agile community (Agile Denver is one such [...]
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Some Thoughts on SAFe
One of the main questions I get asked (probably because I have SPC as part of the “alphabet soup” that follows my name) is about SAFe, or the Scaled Agile Framework. [...]
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What Is Agile Coaching?
When organizations begin an agile transformation, they tend to focus on the “how” first. Investigate some processes, select one, try it out. Oftentimes that process [...]
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When Agile Coaching Engagements Go Wrong - Par [...]
In Part 1 of this series, I described a situation where the agile coaching that I provided was rejected by management. In this installment, we’ll be talking about a differ [...]
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Little Rock Tech Fest 2017: Retrospective and [...]
I just recently returned from beautiful Little Rock, Arkansas and Little Rock Tech Fest 2017. As I described recently, it’s a great regional conference that I was fortunat [...]
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Little Rock Tech Fest 2017 Speaking Engagem [...]
In just a couple of days I’ll be speaking (well, facilitating a session) at Little Rock Tech Fest 2017. I’m humbled that I was selected to participate. It’s a [...]
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Using Risk to Prioritize Your Product Back [...]
When teaching Product Owner workshops, I talk about the need to get a prioritized product backlog. For some students, this is easy but many people struggle. They’re used [...]
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Financing an Outsourced Software Development [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve spoken at conferences this year about creating a sustainable agile transformation. Our culture is often embedded in our policies [...]
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