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New Dates for Sydney, Melbourne, and Wellington Lean Agile Leadership Workshops
Posted on October 17, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Enterprise Rollout, Lean ThinkingWe've added a Lean Agile Leadership Workshop event in Wellington, New Zealand (It was Auckland at one point, but it moved, sorry) on Feb 28&29. Also, the Australia dates have been changed. The new dates are: Sydney - Feb 7...
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Upcoming Public Lean|Agile Leadership Workshop in Australia
Posted on October 2, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Enterprise Rollout, Lean ThinkingAs I've noted on this blog before, delivering my two-day Lean|Agile Leadership workshop to managers and executives is one of the most fun things I get to do. Even more importantly, it has a major benefit in preparing leaders,...
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Podcast: Building the Lean|Agile Enterprise
Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Requirements, Enterprise Rollout, Lean ThinkingWhile I was thinking about my then-upcoming presentation entitled Five Keys to Building the Lean Agile Enterprise for Agile 2011, I was contacted by Joe Dager, owner of Business901, about doing a podcast on essentially the same topic. Joe...
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Guest Post: Knowledge Flow in the Scaled Agile Delivery Model
Posted on July 22, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Lean ThinkingMy colleague, (and partner in a number of agile rollouts), Alex Yakyma from Kyiv, Ukraine, has been opining on how the Agile Release Train and the Scaled Agile Delivery Model in general, helps drive knowledge acquisition, accumulation, and...
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A Lean, Economic Approach to Prioritizing Work
Posted on June 13, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Lean Thinking, Product Owner/Product ManagerLast year, when I was writing Agile Software Requirements, I was researching various strategies (algorithm is too strong a term) for prioritizing user stories, and perhaps more importantly the features of a solution, and even higher on the economic...
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New Chapter – The Agile Release Train
Posted on May 1, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Agile Requirements, Lean Thinking, UncategorizedI've blogged and written more about the Agile Release Train topic more than most over the last year or two. Thats because for many enterprises, it is the next big step of agile enterprise maturity because it drives strategic...
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Rearchitecting with Flow
Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Architecture, Lean ThinkingI'm happy to report that the final chapters of the agile requirements book are largely converging. It now appears as it might actually be finished someday. In the meantime, for those of you who have been interested in the topic...
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Prioritizing Features
Posted on April 8, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Requirements, Lean Thinking, Release Planning, UncategorizedIn the last post, I described a system for estimating features that will be in my upcoming book. This post, prioritizing features, is that post's evil twin. Together, it should be provide a reasonable strategy to estimate cost...
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An Agile Architectural Epic Kanban System: Part 2 – The Model
Posted on March 5, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Architecture, Agile Requirements, Lean ThinkingIn the last post, I described the context and objectives for a kanban system for identifying, analyzing and implementing architectural epics in the agile enterprise. This work is being developed in collaboration with Santeri Kangas and others of
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The Agile Release Train, Strategic Alignment and Product Development Flow
Posted on January 31, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Agile Requirements, Lean Thinking, Release Planning, Scaled Agile Framework/Big PictureIn 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...
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