Last night I spoke at SeaSPIN on the topic “Dollars and Dates Are Killing Agile”. The focus of this talk is how we can speak more like business with the benefit of building organizations that are more supportive of adaptive planning, continuous improvement and team empowerment. If we do not speak the language of the [...]
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Interview with Spot On Business: Agility for the Long Haul
On November 1st at 2:00pm ET (11:00am PT) for about 45- to 60-minutes, Gil Broza will have me on as an interview guest on his series “Spot On Business” talking about “Agility for the Long Haul”. You may sign up at http://3pvantage.com/csterling/saveMySeat.php?ver=SC to be part of the conversation. Here is a brief description of the [...]
The Impediment Monkey Announcement – Bash Your Impediments!
We here at Agile Advantage are excited about a new product offering that we announced today called Impediment Monkey! This product goes along with our first product, AgileEVM, to help companies take advantage of Agile software delivery methods at scale for increased business value and reduced risk on project investments. Impediment Monkey will make removing [...]
InformIT Interview with Chris Sterling
Matt Heusser, on behalf of InformIT, conducted an interview with me regarding the book Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change. We discuss what software debt is, some ways that it can be managed, maintaining a single list of work, how software debt is measured, and we even got into training and our product AgileEVM.com. [...]
All About Agile: A Collection of Great Agile Content
Kelly Waters is now providing a great service to the Agile community by integrating content from talented writers and thinkers at All About Agile. If you are interested in furthering your knowledge about tools, practices, process, and people in adopting Agile values and methods this could be a great spot for you. Thank you, Kelly.
Automated Promotion through Server Environments
To get towards continuous deployment, or even continuous validated builds, a team must take care of their automated build, test, analyze, deploy scripts. I always recommend that you have 2 scripts: deploy rollback And that these scripts are used many times per iteration to reduce the risk of surprises when deploying to downstream server environments, [...]
Manage Up with AgileEVM
As teams start to use Agile methods for delivering software, it is common for the business to ask for a summary of progress. This is not always easy to do for Agile teams. Teams may have an Agile project management tool, hand-drawn burn up charts, task boards on the wall with other information radiators or [...]
SeaSPIN Lightning Talk from Last Night
Thanks to Jeremy Lightsmith, the lightning talk I did last night at SeaSPIN on Portfolio Management and Software Debt was caught on video. The talk went over 5 ills that you might see in software projects that can affect strategic planning and some ways that can help identify the ills more quickly for planning purposes. [...]
