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Flow – One Piece Flow vs. Batch Production – video

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Team building patterns for SAFe®

You cannot force or assign shared ownership. Management must learn to trust her people and the system.

Planning Defects into the system

Why on earth do we do that? Team A, an Agile Release Train (ART), or the mythical Scrum team, has a lot of technical debt. In an effort to reduce the technical debt, management decides to create a bunch of new “container” “FEATURES” in the product backlog to address batches of defects. Because they wantContinue reading “Planning Defects into the system”

RE: #noestimates sidebar in #SAFe #RTE course.

I read several articles on the subject after having a short discussion during class this week with a fellow student (and amazing person!). #noestimates does not seem to address the rather common difficulty in achieving a consistent, homogenous backlog with deterministic job durations and delay costs in a CAS. The #noestimates solution fails in the sameContinue reading “RE: #noestimates sidebar in #SAFe #RTE course.”

Paradigm shift: Slicing Features

we get most of our bologna from Sutherland Meat Distributors and we buy some pre-sliced bologna from the PMI Meat Market.

Walk the Kanban while Scrumming it

Artificial Limitations are not controls Don’t limit your team to using just Scrum or Kanban. Don’t even limit yourself to using watered down versions of a combination of Scrum and Kanban. High-performance teams master both the empirical process framework and controls called Scrum, and the use of Kanban (system; Lean). Continuous Learning (The Three Ways) &Continue reading “Walk the Kanban while Scrumming it”