New Agile Enterprise Webinar Series

Rally Software, in collaboration with Sticky Minds and Better Software Magazine, has been building a free, fall webinar program specifically for the Enterprise Agilist. This webinar series is designed around specific topics of interest to the larger enterprise adopting agile methods. The description from the website is below:
“Join leading Agile experts, coaches, and authors—including Jean [...]

Enterprise Agility–The Big Picture (4): Backlog

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In prior posts, we’ve discussed Teams, Iterations and the Agile Product Owner. To see the full series, select the “Big Picture” blog post category. In this post, we’ll describe [...]

Paul Beavers’ Agile Acid Test: Variability, Incremental Delivery, Empowerment

As agile moves across the chasm into the mainstream software enterprise, it becomes important to separate truly agile behavior (some call it Agile with the capital A) from a general approach to being flexible, not overly rigid in software practices and being open to changing market demands. Pete Behrens commented on the danger of “everybody [...]

Successes in Release Planning: An Agile Enterprise Tipping Point

In the “Release Planning” category and series on this blog, I described an enterprise best practice designed to coordinate the efforts of some number of agile teams in order to deliver a larger scale system in a somewhat predictive and systematic manner. I also described this process from a practitioner’s perspective in the Agile [...]

Enterprise Agility–The Big Picture (3): Role of the Product Owner

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In prior posts, we’ve discussed teams and iterations. To see the full series, select the “Big Picture” blog post category.

In this post, we’ll describe the Agile Product Owner [callout [...]

Enterprise Agility–The Big Picture (2): Iterations

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility-The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility and the Agile Release Train in a single slide. In this post, we’ll describe the iterations [callout (#2)] that are the fundamental building block of enterprise agility. For elaboration on earlier numbered callouts, select [...]

Enterprise Agility–The Big Picture (1): Agile Teams

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility-The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility and the Agile Release Train in a single slide. We repeat it here with an annotation callout.
In this post, we’ll describe the Agile Teams [callout (#1)] that are responsible for creating all that high [...]

Enterprise Agility–The Big Picture

(Note: The Big Picture graphic below has been revised during this series of posts. I try to keep the latest version here so you may see some differences if you follow the series from front to back).

I spend a fair amount of time working with executives trying to give them the “big picture” of what [...]

Agile Architecture – The Whitepaper Now On Line

For those of you following the agile architecture series, you may know that I’ve been working with Ryan Martens, Rally’s CTO and founder, and Mauricio Zamora, from CSG Systems, to put our thoughts on agile, intentional architecture into whitepaper form. Rally has given a big assist to the production and publishing process and I’m happy [...]

Agile Executive – Final, Six Part BMC Executive Interview Now On Line

Israel Gat (VP, BMC Software) has just completed a six part interview series on the BMC agile transformation experience at the Agile Thinkers blog that I’ve been highlighting in some recent posts. This series is an open, honest and direct perspective from an experienced senior executive faced with all the challenges of implementing agility at [...]