by Al Shalloway | May 11, 2022 | Agile, Teams
If your Agile coach is telling you to “run experiments” and “fail-fast,” then let me show you how to “learn how to deliver value quickly.” We live in a complex world. But that doesn’t mean we should be navigating as if we’re driving with bumper cars. Most of the time,...
by Al Shalloway | Mar 9, 2022 | Agile, Flow, Scrum, Teams
There is no question that people can only absorb so much at any one time. Moreover, we have a lot of limitations to learning – cognitive bias, bounded rationality, cognitive overload, ego, etc. So the idea of trying to teach even 10% of what’s known early is...
by Al Shalloway | Feb 17, 2022 | Agile
Linked Article from Value Stream Management Master Class on Success Mentors University Twenty-three years ago, when I formed Net Objectives, I adopted a personal goal of “Effective software development without suffering.” I was looking at how to improve...
by Al Shalloway | Feb 16, 2022 | Agile, Frameworks, Scrum
The biggest difference between Scrum Guide Scrum and the effective Scrum that results in this workshop is not so much the practices you’ll do as it is how you will look at how your teams create value. The workshop presents a simple model based on Flow, Lean, and...
by Al Shalloway | Jan 21, 2022 | Agile, Frameworks, SAFe, Scrum
First, I am not an expert in sensemaking in the academic sense. As a practitioner/consultant in the knowledge work arena, I am writing this. Nothing in this article is intended to attend to domains outside of knowledge work, although I am sure some of it does. Weick,...
by Al Shalloway | Jan 19, 2022 | Agile, Agile@Scale, Frameworks
This article is intended for those people who are considering SAFe because it has a laid-out method. While SAFe does help many companies at the start it has some gaps and is overly complex. This is why many companies start well with SAFe only to stagnate after a...
