Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 24, 2019

Whenever you are building and deploying a complex system, there are always going to be bugs, defects, and unforeseen problems with usability — commonly referred to as Production Support issues. Most organizations that run these kinds of systems have helpdesks for users to raise these issues with.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One of the more frequently asked questions in my Scrum workshops is around the difference between Definition of “Done” and Acceptance Criteria , and how they relate to User Stories. While Acceptance Criteria is a commonly understood concept in software development, Definition of “Done” is unique to Scrum. User Stories.

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Capgemini

MARCH 27, 2020

Tomorrow’s leaders are already starting to transform towards new delivery models that will enable them to develop more exploratory and adaptive strategies. The information system (IS) of the future supports this approach and delivers an abundance of innovative services in record time. Why is this a journey?

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2020

For this week’s Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , I have a special show for you: the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition. The Art of Agile Development came out in 2007. I’m going to be reading from the new edition of my book, The Art of Agile Development. So in a moment.

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James Shore

JUNE 2, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Energized Work.

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LeanEssays

JULY 16, 2015

“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. It struck me that the reason an organization opts for late adoption is to learn from those who go first – from the companies that bushwhacked through the agile swamp a decade ago, or the organizations that followed a few years later.

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James Shore

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Cargo Cult Agile.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 6, 2018

There are two major ways to discover opportunities for cross-skilling: Kanban/Scrum Team Board. Kanban/Scrum Team Board. Demonstrates that in any system where there is a bottleneck, the rest of the system should be subordinated to the bottleneck until the bottleneck is cleared. Skills Matrix. Skills Matrix.

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James Shore

JUNE 7, 2021

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list.

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LeanEssays

JUNE 5, 2015

Instead, Modig and Ahlström demonstrate that lean is about flow efficiency – that is, the efficiency with which a unit of work (a flow unit) moves through the system. In my case, the dental system was focused on the efficiency of the lab’s milling machine – no doubt an expensive piece of equipment. Consider our dental experience.

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LeanEssays

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In a lean environment, the leader’s role is to set up strong teams, to be sure, but it is also to devise a system – let’s call it a goal system – which assigns goals to teams. So it’s clear that the start of a goal system is a system-level, unifying goal. So we need to look elsewhere for ways to set up a goal system.

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