Tag: Agile
Sprint Zero or Not to Sprint Zero
A colleague of mine recently asked me and a few other Excella developers our opinions...
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...
Dear Agile: Two-Week Sprints – Just Infinite Deadlines?
DEAR AGILE – I’m not a fan of the idea of two-week sprints. An infinite...
Dear Agile: Can We Have Multiple Product Owners?
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a...
Product Owners: Help Your Senior Leaders Give You Useful Feedback
Has this happened to you? You are giving a demo to a stakeholder who is...
Dear Agile: The Role of a Tech Lead
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile blog series. Have a question for...
The Vaguely Right Agile Release Forecast
“It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.”– Carveth Read. What does this...
A Beneficial View of Hierarchy
In many parts of the Agile community, hierarchy is viewed as a necessary evil. Hierarchical...
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...
Agile Transformation in 2 (Simple) Steps
So, you want your organization to adopt Agile practices? All right, let’s do this! It...