A short field notes series on how competence is recognized and how promotion changes what that recognition can carry. Competence is one of the clearest signals organizations know how to recognize. Work is completed reliably.Decisions are sound.Outcomes are visible and...
Hi! I'm Julie Carter, and I want to share my revelation on scaling agile principles to address multi-team dependencies in global product development. As a Scrum master at an enterprise software company, I managed complex features that required seamless coordination...
The divide between builders and bureaucrats is getting exposed more than ever today. Every organization system requires people who can build stuff and folks who administer the enterprise. When the balance skews heavily towards administration, the joy of developing...
“Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for failure of new ventures.” - Peter Drucker. Drucker uses the keywords innovation and Management to describe the core...
My Three Scaling Agile Maxims Nail it before you scale it. Stitch it to flip it. Fake it, and you won’t make it. Here's why? Nail it before you scale it. Do you know what good looks like? What will be fit for your organization’s purpose? Don’t get impatient and try...
When an enterprise scales to the point where multiple teams must continuously integrate their work to deliver customer value, coordination challenges inevitably explode. The industry response to this challenge has been an obsession with comparing Agile Scaling...