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Archive of 2008 October
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Register for the Last 2008 SSA Course-Nov 13,2008!
Posted on October 27, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in UncategorizedI’ll be delivering only one more public course of Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises yet this year. It will be held at Agile University in Boulder, Colorado November 13, 2008. You can see the abstract...
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Enterprise Agility- The Big Picture (13): Portfolio Vision & Epic
Posted on October 26, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Scaled Agile Framework/Big PictureNote: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing posts, too numerous to highlight here (see the...
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Join Me at Voices that Matter: Crafting Software Conference
Posted on October 19, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in UncategorizedAlong with Kent Beck, Stacia Broderick and many others, I'll be speaking at the Voices that Matter: Crafting Software Conference to be held in San Francisco, December 1-4, 2008 in San Francisco. Her'es the description from the website: "The Pearson...
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Jeff Sutherland’s Sprint Emergency Landing Procedure
Posted on October 19, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Team PracticesLast week, I gave a talk on Scaling Agility at Agilis 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Yes, Iceland has an active agile community within their population of some 300,000-400,000. A local consultancy Sprettur, hosted this conference and invited guest...
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The Agile Enterprise Acid Test – Updated
Posted on October 13, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Team PracticesIn a prior post, I referred to a post by Paul Beavers of BMC (Is it Possible to be Half-Agile?) which gave his perspective on the agile acid test- the quintessential test of whether or not an organization...
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New Book: The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility
Posted on October 7, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Enterprise Rollout, UncategorizedI just finished reading this recently published book by Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick (both of whom I've had the pleasure of working with in the field). This book fills a critical agile enterprise gap – that is how...
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Balancing Traditional and Agile Belief Systems- Israel Gat on the Equipoise of Agile
Posted on October 6, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile ExecutiveRecently I've again been pondering the balancing act of implementing new agile practices alongside extremely well entrenched, existing enterprise practices. While it's always fun to criticize our past behaviors from the perspective of the rear view mirror, it's also the...
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