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Field notes on transforming organizations through Integral Agile.
Posted on: July 20, 2021
Crossing the threshold of agility I remember the first time I experienced a team crossing that subtle threshold of discovering the power of working together as a group, with transparency and trust, rather than a collection of individuals working alone on a common project. I recall the energy that was unlocked as…
Posted on: July 9, 2021
The Sprint Demo should be the most exciting meeting on any team’s calendar. Why? Because it is the team’s chance to showcase and celebrate all the hard work they accomplished over the course of a sprint. Traditionally, the Sprint Demo happens at the end of each sprint with the development team, scrum master and…
Posted on: June 7, 2018
We’ve all had the experience of being in a group where everything is flowing really well, people are aligned, and everyone’s energy is high. Then one person says or does something that seems to pop the bubble, and the flow of good ideas stops. The typical response in these situations is a kind of uncomfortable silence…
Posted on: March 6, 2017
Anyone who has created a truly Agile result at any level of any organization can speak to the elegance of how everything fits together, how information flows, and the way in which actions taken at the smallest task level both impact and are directly informed by everything taking place at larger or higher levels. The…
Posted on: March 5, 2017
The most accurate way to measure the success of any Agile team, is by validating the actual Business Value delivered with the delivery of working software, and measuring performance based on your Key Performance Metrics to see whether your product is performing to expectations. This is something we call a Long , or…
Posted on: January 5, 2017
The business value of a product is defined by the product owner as part of the process of developing the product vision and initial product roadmap. Business value is very specific to the type of product being developed but examples may include: Increasing customer satisfaction Reducing cost and risk in the supply…
Posted on: December 10, 2016
This next series of posts will talk about what we mean by “Value,” and how we know whether we are delivering it. If you ask anyone you work with if they think they are delivering value to the business or to their product, they will most likely say “yes” (if they say “no” you probably have an interesting conversation…
Posted on: August 8, 2016
The goal of the Definition of DONE agreement is many fold, and it exists not only to create a standard by which teams can operate so that they can feel confident that when someone says, “I’m DONE!” they know precisely what that means, but also to ensure that all involved stakeholders understand when, why, and how to…
Posted on: July 8, 2016
In order for the team to review the work done in the previous Sprint/Iteration, a Sprint/Iteration Review is held. Note that this is not the occasion for the team to present the work to the Product Owner. This Review meeting should be scheduled for the first available time slot after the end of the previous…
Posted on: June 5, 2016
At the end of each Sprint/Iteration, a Demo meeting is held where the Team shows what they accomplished during the past 2 weeks. Given that Agile is an empirical process, and the goal of every Sprint is to product Potentially Shippable Software, only work that meets the Definition of DONE is demonstrated at the end of…
