Professional Scrum is for everyone in your organisation
Recently I worked with a new customer in Denver to help them move towards a greater degree of Scrum in their software development. The idea that Scrum is for everyone in your organisation is kind of new, but it reflects the modern understanding of the way people work, and the rejection of Taylorism and command and control. You cant use someone else approaches to get to agility , but you can learn from it.
Create your own path to Organisational Agility
Other scaled agile frameworks employ a cookie-cutter approach to organisational agility. While I accept that they may have worked somewhere once, the likelihood that the same approach will work in your organisation is small. They were created to get a unique company from their existing state to their personal vision of where they wanted to be. To increase the likelihood of success you need a framework that guides you to change your organisation in an incremental and custom fashion towards your own vision. Cookie-cutter approaches will not work for you.
Round up for 2017 and beyond: Agility, DevOps, and Everything In-between
This year has been relatively busy for conferences. Which is unusual since I usually forget until after the call for papers and wonder what’s going on. Well, this time I got some submissions in on time. It does, however, baffle me which papers are selected. I always submit around 6 papers for workshops and talks, and always the one I would least like to present is picked.
Getting started with a modern source control system and DevOps
There are a number of things that you have to think about when selecting a modern source control system. Some of that is purely about code, but modern source control systems are about way more than code. They are about your entire application lifecycle and supporting DevOps practices, they are about the metadata that you use to understand and manage your development processes and deliver great software. The tools you choose should compliment the professional people and practices that you use.
Professional Scrum Training for the Ghana Police Service
Last time I talked about the Ghana Police Service (GPS) I was talking about Professional Organisational Change and the approach the Inspector General of Police (IGP) is taking; using Scrum to incrementally make changes to the organisation. While Nana Abban and the IGP have been focusing on the big picture, I have been in Ghana to start the grass roots adoption of Scrum with two Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF) classes, the first ever run in Ghana.
Professional Organisational Change at the Ghana Police Service
The Ghana Police Service is in trouble. Over the last few last few decades each new Police organisation and government has tried in various ways to carry out some change but most changes have been ad-hoc, temporary, not robust enough or strategic. The old problems return to haunt new administrations and many police officers and the Public have lost hope.
Scrum Tapas: Scrum and Continuous Delivery
I get asked a lot at conferences and at customers how Scrum and Continuous Delivery can work together. The reality is that they complement each other and at the last Scrum.org F2F I sat down to make a little video on the way I think that it works.
VSTS Sync Migration Tool Update and Bugfix
The VSTS Sync Migration tools have been updated with new features and bug fixes for common issues reported by users.
Scrum Tapas: The Importance of Professionalism
I believe that to create great software you need to have Professional Teams and not just amateur Teams. However most software teams are amateurs that don’t follow the rules, don’t subscribe to engineering excellence, and don’t follow the values and principals
I do continuous deliver, why should I Sprint?
Many folks believe that a Sprint is an arbitrary length of time in which you create and release software. They look at their continuous delivery pipeline and say to themselves; “Why would I limit myself to shipping only once every two weeks?”
