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2014
Eric Ries’ Four Engines of Growth Reduced to Two
In “The Lean Startup”, Eric Ries talks about four different “engines of growth”. The engines of growth are about how new customers are attracted in a sustainable way. They each dictate quite different marketing strategies, and so by knowing...
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04
2014Agile Governance
As you read more, and become more familiar with the ‘why’ of Agile, you begin to realize that Agile Governance isn’t some unnecessary overhead – its actually absolutely fundamental to how it works. I’ve been saying for a while that...
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29
2013“Customer Centric” and Product Management
In a recent forum on LinkedIn, Fateh Amroune Entrepreneur, product and strategy consultant, suggested: “A lot of emphasis is made around the “customer-centric” culture, customer first etc.. I don’t want to be a pariah so I do think that of course the customer...
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07
2013Some Principles to Work By
Governance Principles Planning is everything, the plan is nothing – plans are not commitments, they are useful tools Primary purpose of Governance is transparency – alignment will follow Secondary purpose of Governance is auditability – accountability will follow In calculating...
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03
2013Scope-Bound, Time-Boxed and Story-Centric Agile
Scope -Bound Agile This is perhaps the easiest forms of Agile for a new organization to sell to their Product Managers. In this you merely ask your product managers to rank their features and the stories within those features by...
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15
2013Agile is For Executives
…Agile is not as good as they say…its WAY better…. Imagine never missing an Annual budget target ever again? Never having to report a late project ever again? So here’s a question….Why don’t some senior Executives realize that Agile is what...
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15
2013Agile isn’t for Projects Managers
A question came up recently on a forum asking “What does an Agile Project Manager do”. One answer is “nothing”, that an Agile PM is an oxymoron. “The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility” explains in some detail...
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26
2013Its either Good …. or its Bad
I was reminded today that us humans tend to want to immediately interpret everything. Is a high capacity utilization desirable or not, what is the correct number? As Agilists we need measurements in order to control and improve all our...
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14
2013Evergreen Work
There is a concept in Agile of ‘evergreen’ work – work that the team owns and which should be picked up after committed stories have been completed. A characteristic of this work is that it tends not to be time-sensitive,...
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25
2013Burn Up, Burn Down, and Capacity Utilization Charts
How can you even think about ‘constant improvement’ if you aren’t measuring your basic activity. Its taken rather more time than I’d like to admit to realize that Sprint burn up and burn down charts are not just an overly...
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