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How Do Agile Metrics Actually Boost Team Performance?
The management expert and author Peter Drucker famously said, “You cannot improve what you don’t measure.” Eliyahu Goldratt, author of…
Top 5 Sprint Metrics to Report to Your Stakeholders
If you are leading or working on an Agile team, you will most likely need to communicate progress and status…
SAFe® 6.0 Deep Dive – The New SAFe Practice (NOT Program) Consultant
Upon its release early in 2023, SAFe® 6.0 brought about several changes to the framework, one of which may be…
Is Measuring Velocity in Scrum Good or Bad for Your Team?
Throughout the past few years, the Velocity metric seems to have become a polarizing element among Agile teams due to…
Pillars of Engineering Management: How Foundational Engineering Practices Drive Business Success
The engineering industry is constantly evolving. Staying ahead of the curve requires a deep understanding of emerging trends and technologies.…
How to Manage Unplanned Work in SAFe?
At the time of this writing, which is early-2023, Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) remains the most popular framework in use…
Six Practices for De-Commodifying the Scrum Master and Unleashing Team Greatness
It is painful to watch how some enterprises treat the Scrum Master role like a commodity: Scrum Masters are all…
The Portfolio Kanban System & Lean Portfolio Management
Since their initial creation decades ago, both Agile and Lean management principles have fueled the continuous improvement of organizations across…
POETIC Leadership Enables Lean-Agile Leadership, Part Three: Intelligent and Curious
This is the third in a three-part series of articles covering the POETIC Leadership approach to Lean-Agile leadership, authored by…
How to Apply Agile to Non-Software Work
The concept of “Agile” has been tied to software development mainly because of the 2001 publication, The Manifesto for Agile…
POETIC Leadership Enables Lean-Agile Leadership, Part Two: Emotional and Team Thinking
This is the second in a three-part series of articles covering the POETIC Leadership approach to Lean-Agile leadership, authored by…
POETIC Leadership Enables Lean-Agile Leadership, Part One: Personal and Organizational
This is the first in a three-part series of articles covering the POETIC Leadership approach to Lean-Agile leadership, authored by…