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Archive of 2008 June
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Harnessing Innovation: Lightweight Governance Models for High Performing Agile teams
Posted on June 25, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise Rollout, UncategorizedI recently gave this presentation (harnessing-innovation) at a private, in-house agile community gathering for a large software enterprise. The focus was obvious from the title, how does the larger enterprise harness the agility, innovation (and yes, entropy) of all...
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Failing “soft” is an Option in Agile
Posted on June 23, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise Rollout, Meeting DeadlinesRecently, I noticed the following interesting post from BMC's Paul Beavers: To Be Successful with Agile, Failure is More than an Option, it's Necessary. Paul highlights: "Failure from time to time is expected - trying, assessing, and adjusting are not...
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Announcing SSA Courses, Sep 11 & Nov 6, 2008
Posted on June 17, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in UncategorizedI'll be delivering only two public courses of Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises this fall. Both will be held at Agile University in Boulder, Colorado. You can see the abstract and register for the course...
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The Agile “Shine On” (Visibility and Truth in Agile)
Posted on June 16, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise Rollout, Team PracticesRecently the post "Zero to Fear in 60 Seconds" appeared in Agile Juice . This great post highlights some of the challenges with the transparency and fact-based status assessment that agile purports to deliver. Simply put, it's...
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Agile 2008 August 4-8 in Toronto
Posted on June 11, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in UncategorizedThe Agile 2008 conference has recently announced the program for this summer's meetings in Toronto. To quote from their brochure: "It brings together executives, managers, software development practitioners and researchers from labs and academia. The conference is not...
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Recap: SEVEN Principles of Agile Architecture
Posted on June 9, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile ArchitectureThose following the agile architecture series will probably note that the principles and labels have morphed over time. I've been collaborating with Ryan Martens, Rally's founder and CTO, and Mauricio Zamora, Executive Director at CSG Systems, in writing a whitepaper...
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The New New Product Development Game and the Roots of Scrum
Posted on June 5, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Team PracticesI was recently doing some research on prospective agile governance models for a company in the throes of understanding how to manage the entropy of a large number of newly energized and empowered agile teams. For perspective on the problem,...
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Update on British Telecom Agile Adoption
Posted on June 3, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Case Studies, Enterprise RolloutI met Roger Leaton (British Telecom employee and Agile Advocate) and Geoff Watts (consultant, InspectandAdapt.com) at an in-house agile community gathering last week. They gave a peer presentation of the status of the agile rollout that they have been...
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