In complex product development, corporate hierarchies demand an absolute premium on certainty. To satisfy this demand, enterprise operating systems have institutionalized a ubiquitous ritual: relative size estimation abstracted into Story Points, which are then summed...
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...
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...
For the great majority of us, the term project management is related to the compilation of steps taken to develop a project from beginning to end. Most of these steps are more logical to some of us than others. You basically divide the project into sections, where...
In our team coaching efforts we have used the Team Self-Managing Canvas to grow teaminess. Teaminess is not a dictionary word, yet. Teaminess refers to a feeling of being one in effort, behavior, and communication toward achieving shared purposes. For teams that are...