Announcing an Upcoming Book on Agile Requirements

As readers of this blog know, I’ve been using my previous book, Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, as a source reference to help guide large-scale enterprises in becoming more agile in their software development projects. In the course of many engagements with these large enterprises, a recurring theme keeps popping up, “How [...]

Is Scrum Lean?

In my last post, I described some work I’ve been doing with lean thinking in some larger software enterprises – not so much for teams themselves, who generally find Scrum and/with/or XP to be adequate for their needs – but to other levels in the organization – project office, sales, marketing and distribution – where value [...]

Are Scrum and XP Lean? (Part 1)

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m working with a number of large-scale agile transformations, most deploying Scrum. However, while Scrum drives agility and efficiency for the software development team, Scrum (or XP) doesn’t have so much to offer to the line managers, directors and VPs engaged in managing development, project, program, and product [...]