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 [...]

Thoughts on Lean Thinking

As readers of this blog are probably aware,  I’ve been thinking a lot about Lean Thinking lately. (see Lean Thinking category on this blog).
The cause is natural: as agile moves across the chasm to the large (and really large) enterprise, which is where I spend most of my time, impediments to further enhancing productivity and [...]

Proceedings of Lean & Kanban 2009

Hardcopy proceedings of the Lean and Kanban 2009 Conference are available at the WordClay Bookstore. This is excellent reading for anyone who wants to understand what the latest “tip revision” thinking from Lean and Kanban experts like David Anderson, Eric Landes, Alan Shalloway, James Sutton, Corey Ladis and others. (My article with Juha-Markus Aalto on [...]

A Contemporary Framework for Agile Product Management in the Enterprise

The following article was posted on InformIT yesterday: A Contemporary Framework for Agile Product Management in the Enterprise.
Pieces of it have been spread around this blog before, but this is a fairly standalone piece describing my view of the changing role of the product manager in the agile enteprise.

Presentation from Agile 2009

Below is my updated presentation from Agile 2009 yesterday. Thanks to those who attended.
Scaling Software Agility Overview Agile 2009_updated

Ten Suggested Practices for Applying Agile/Lean Software Management Principles to Other Knowledge Work

Introduction
Recently, I’ve been asked to help some teams apply lean/agile/Scrum/XP-like project management practices to non-software development knowledge work.
These organizations have seen agile methods produce huge benefits in visibility, productivity, quality, empowerment and motivation in their software teams. They naturally want to understand whether these techniques can be effective in other knowledge work activities such as [...]

Speaking at Agile 2009

I’ll be giving an updated version of my scaling agility presentation at Agile 2009. I’ll be speaking on the Agile Adoption Stage in the Toronto Room at 2 PM Wednesday, August 26th. You can see the full program schedule here.
The abstract for my presentation is below. Also, we’ll be having a meeting of the Lean [...]

Patterns and Anti-patterns in Enterprise Adoption

I gave this presentation to a SPIN meeting the other day and promised that I would post it. So here it is:
Patterns&Antipatterns in Enterprise Adoption
I’ve blogged on this topic before ( see post) but as agile continues to cross the chasm to the enterprise, new anti-patterns emerge (or perhaps they were always there and I just didn’t [...]

Perspectives on Lean & Kanban 2009

As a new entry into the software development conference marketplace, (along with all of the implications for potential impact implied by its labels), Lean & Kanban 2008 has created a bit of a buzz in the blogosphere. What follows is a short summary of some of the action:
The presentations for all the speakers from the [...]

Mike Cottmeyer is Live Blogging Presentations at Lean & Kanban 2009

I was thinking of posting some summary of the rich content presentations at this amazing conference. But my colleague Mike Cottmeyer (a founding member of the Lean Software and Systems Consortium) is doing a great job of summarizing the presentations on his blog www.Leading Agile.com.