The Agile Release Train, Strategic Alignment and Product Development Flow

In this blog, in Scaling Software Agility, and in my forthcoming book on Agile Requirements, I’ve been writing fairly extensively on the implementation of the Agile Release Train (also see whitepaper derived from the book)  as a means of achieving both strategic alignment and product development flow in the larger software enterprise. It is hard to [...]

Agile Requirements Book: Chapter 1: A Brief History of Software Requirements Methods

To you software method historians out there (you know who you are, even if we can’t admit it to your  family and friends), I’ve just posted the first Chapter to Agile Requirements on the book resource page. It’s mostly context for what follows in the book, but I think it contains a pretty good summary [...]

More on Lean, Backlog and Little’s Law

In a recent post, An Agile Illusion: How That Nice Backlog is Actually Decreasing Your Team’s Agility, I described how long, well-formed backlogs can actually decrease a team’s ability to respond to the market. This post generated some lively comments – some supportive, some more critical – but all quite perceptive and representing a pretty high [...]

Lean Agile Enterprise Leadership Workshop

I continue working with a number of software enterprises in the throes of large-scale agile/Scrum rollouts. Whether it be a new rollout, or one where the next set of potential achievements and impediments rest at the door of management, one thing is increasingly clear: these rollouts will not reach their full potential until first, mid, [...]

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