Responding to Change Over Following a Plan: Agile Lessons from Antarctica
I spent the first part of January in Antarctica hanging out with penguins, whales, and...
Feedback Early & Often! 3 Questions to Ask to Take Full Advantage of Feedback Loop Opportunities
Agile frameworks are designed to accept and handle change – but you still need feedback...
Dear Agile: Not Your Average Stand-Up
This post is in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. DEAR AGILE: Recently, a...
Teams new to Kanban often spend far too much time debating what their initial work-in-progress (WIP)...
In my previous blog, I explained why learning about system models (also known as causal...
How System Models Can Help Your Organization Optimize for the Whole
One of the primary themes during the Certified LeSS Practitioner course I attended last year...
If LeSS is Already Large-Scale Scrum, What’s LeSS Huge?
One of the first things I discovered while attending Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) training is that...
More with LeSS – 5 Takeaways from Certified LeSS Practitioner Training
In December, I had the opportunity to attend the Certified LeSS Practitioner course in New...
Simulating Scrum by Building a LEGO City
At the January Games for Agility, Learning, and Engagement (GALE) Meetup, we ran a version...
Physical vs. Digital Story Maps
As I wrote previously in this blog, story maps help teams identify the Minimum Viable...
With Agile delivery, we trade big upfront design for a “just enough” approach. But how...