Preetam De: Defining Done – The Holy Cow Approach

Reblogged with permission from Preetam De, the original author of this content, as a contributor to blogagility.com. Originally published on The Dark Horse on September 2, 2016.   While reading Invest on an Epic Story and get the job Done, there was a discussion about how the done checklist can be formulated with mandatory and optionalContinue reading “Preetam De: Defining Done – The Holy Cow Approach”

Booked! Leading SAFe

I am teaching Leading SAFe with my co-instructor Jose (Joe) LaTorre USMC (Ret.) this Friday! The kit is prepared! We have some prep work to do still but I am SUPER EXCITED about teaching the course! Thanks to the Scaled Agile, Inc. folks for the support and to my gracious and eager to learn clientsContinue reading “Booked! Leading SAFe”

SAFe Update – an awesome new essentials window

There was an update on the SAFe on June 23, 2016 where the good folks at Scaled Agile released a simplified version of the SAFe Big Picture. This new tool will make it easier to introduce the Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise to folks whom are not familiar with it.

Reblog: Agile Failure Patterns In Organizations

An excellent article by Stefan Wolpers that consolidates his findings of common failure patterns for agile scrum xp, lean/kanban implementations. Agile Failure Patterns in Organizations 2.0 reblogged with permission from Mr. Wolpers.

My Experiments with the Story cubes

Originally posted on Culture Reinvented!:
Hello World, I have been working with the agile teams for a long time. Agile has gifted a lot of meetings viz. planning, grooming, retrospective, etc. Retrospectives are one of the most powerful and often the most ignored meetings as they end up as boring and ineffective. Hence, a lot…