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Q: What is a Value Stream? A: A tool for learning that helps organizations to become more responsive   How Value Stream Identification Makes Us More Responsive Value Stream identification helps make our organization more...

A few weeks ago, one of the Scrum teams that I have been supporting informed me that they had not been doing Sprint Reviews because they had completed nothing worth demonstrating to the team or...

As agile project management has become more prevalent in IT organizations, there has been an increasing trend toward overall organizational agility or business agility, as it is sometimes called.  This involves a full transformation of...

The Annual State of Agile Report has become something of a standard in my organization over the past few years. It has been an interesting journey to see the practice of Agile methods spread across...

In an earlier post, we discussed what application security is and why it\'s important. That was covering the basics. So, what next? Once you know the importance of application security, you should of course work...

I recently realized something that I probably have always known in the back of my mind years ago – implementing new ways of working is primarily about change management. Although I have coached numerous teams...

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...

Let’s face it. Our world of work is fragmented despite our best efforts to achieve agility. At the heart of successful Agile transformations are tech stacks powered by workflows that transcend across value streams. Organizational...

Many activities go into developing any type of software. From gathering requirements to deploying to real-world users, lots of factors influence the final product. Testing is one of these factors that you have to take...

Strategies for shifting from “imitation LPM” to “real LPM.” In the previous installment of this blog series we provided an overview of the signs of imitation Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). In this state, organizations have...

In the previous articles in this series, we’ve discussed the dangers of “imitation” lean portfolio management (LPM), the steps required to set up effective LPM in your organization, and the importance of connecting all levels...

Organizing teams to shift from “imitation LPM” to “real LPM.” In the previous installment of this blog series, we discussed how organizations implementing LPM treat strategy and some of the signs of imitation LPM in...