Register for the Last 2008 SSA Course-Nov 13,2008!

I’ll be delivering only one more public course of Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises yet this year. It will be held at Agile University in Boulder, Colorado November 13, 2008. You can see the abstract and register for the course here. While the course is based on the book, the material is [...]

Enterprise Agility- The Big Picture (13): Portfolio Vision & Epic

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 a series of continuing posts, too numerous to highlight here (see the Big Picture Category on this blog for an orderly summary)we have been gradually working our way [...]

Join Me at Voices that Matter: Crafting Software Conference

Along with Kent Beck, Stacia Broderick and many others, I’ll be speaking at the Voices that Matter: Crafting Software Conference to be held in San Francisco, December 1-4, 2008 in San Francisco.

Her’es the description from the website:
“The Pearson Education Voices That Matter Conference series gives voice to the most important thought leaders in technology, design, [...]

Jeff Sutherland’s Sprint Emergency Landing Procedure

Last week, I gave a talk on Scaling Agility at Agilis 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Yes, Iceland has an active agile community within their population of some 300,000-400,000. A local consultancy Sprettur, hosted this conference and invited guest speakers including Jeff Sutherland and myself. I was somewhat surprised to see the advanced level of agile [...]

The Agile Enterprise Acid Test – Updated

In a prior post, I referred to a post by Paul Beavers of BMC (Is it Possible to be Half-Agile?) which gave his perspective on the agile acid test- the quintessential test of whether or not an organization is truly achieving agility at enterprise scale. In my post, I also provided my viewpoint on the [...]

New Book: The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility

I just finished reading this recently published book by Michele Sliger and Stacia Broderick (both of whom I’ve had the pleasure of working with in the field). This book fills a critical agile enterprise gap – that is how to transition from traditional project management to agile project management. Michele and Stacia, two long-time (neither [...]

Balancing Traditional and Agile Belief Systems- Israel Gat on the Equipoise of Agile

Recently I’ve again been pondering the balancing act of implementing new agile practices alongside extremely well entrenched, existing enterprise practices. While it’s always fun to criticize our past behaviors from the perspective of the rear view mirror, it’s also the fact that most of these prior practices actually worked dang pretty well pre-agile. After all, [...]