What is a silo?  One of the best ways to understand what functional silos are is to understand where you find them. Silos can cut across an organization in a variety of ways. Typically, when...

Earlier this year, the Scrum Alliance published the first ever edition of the State of Agile Coaching Report, which contained many insights into the fledgling profession that is commonly referred to as “Agile Coaching”. I...

The Sprint Planning meeting is a critical Scrum event that establishes the team’s goal for a sprint and sets the path towards success. There are many potential issues that teams may encounter during this event....

Recently, I have been studying how people, teams, and organizations respond to change. This may seem surprising, but I have found the human side of Agile to be the one aspect that is most often...

Over the past couple of years, I have worked with a variety of organizations to help them adopt Agile practices. One of the most interesting things that I have learned through the Agile transformation experience...

Recently, I was having a conversation with a prospective client who is exploring the possibility of implementing Agile practices for his organization. He asked an interesting question that I have encountered on a number of...

For the better part of my career, I have been both a trainer and a student, which has allowed me to gain interesting insights from both perspectives of a teacher and a learner. As technology...

Recently, I have been studying Disciplined Agile (DA) quite a bit. Despite having implemented DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) over 10 years ago, I was intrigued by how this approach has evolved over this period of...

Webinar transcript - Watch the webinar: How to Thrive in a Fast-Paced Environment – The Art of Quarterly Strategic Planning Myriam - We\'re very happy to welcome you on this Friday to our Webinar to...

As a technical coach, I quite often get asked to up-skill and improve teams’ performance. Often the request takes the form of “please help them deliver faster.” Some of these teams manage legacy systems with...

Kevin Thompson, PhD, is a physicist-turned-software engineer. He holds his doctoral degree from Princeton University, spent several years doing astrophysics research at NASA Ames Research Center, then moved into the world of commercial software. He...

I hesitated as my mouth hung open a bit. A senior leader in a development organization had just asked, “Why is product important?” Why product? We’d been discussing an evolution in thinking in our industry...