It is not the planning that fails. It’s the implementation where the problem lies. As Professor Charles Hampden-Turner used to say to reinforce this point: “A strategic plan always works…
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Why Is Agile So Hard? Organizational Impediments to Becoming an Agile Enterprise
In many market sectors, the journey to becoming more Agile is a strategic imperative. This Advisor looks at some of the reasons some organizations find this transition difficult. These challenges…
Cut the Crap, Get Us to the Backlog! (Download the Whitepaper)
I have often written about how absurd Agile is. This paper looks at the silliness in Agile frameworks surrounding backlog creation. Most popular Agile frameworks start from the point of…
Building Agile Teams (Download the Whitepaper)
Teambuilding in Agile is more than taking a group of people out to a pub or restaurant! At its core, Agile is about teaming, solving problems, or building solutions together…
Agile is illogical! (Download the Whitepaper)
Let us be honest with each other; Agile is illogical. Not the theory, but I refer to the illogical practice. The certification factories have given us frameworks, approaches, and examinations…
An Alternative to Scrum (Download the Whitepaper)
I am often asked what is Agile? It is a difficult question to answer. I use the following headline statement: Agile is a different and constantly evolving way of working,…