The Starting Problem Series – Realistic Agile Transformation Expectations
Expectations are everything. If you set a goal, communicate it and then meet it, your team is thrilled and so are your stakeholders.
The Starting Problem Series – The Agile Resource Allocation Dilemma – Part 2
In the previous post, we outlined the Agile Resource Allocation Dilemma and recognized that this is a pervasive issue and a tough one to solve.
Naeem Hussain
The Starting Problem Series - The Agile Resource Allocation Dilemma - Part 1
Congratulations! You have now convinced your management team to adopt agile. Everyone (or at least most) in your leadership team have extended their support toward this initiative. Everyone believes ...
Naeem Hussain
Team Design Patterns – Feature teams with mixed-composite skills
This article is about the third and final alternative to the Ideal Team Structure – feature teams with mixed-composite skill teams.
Brian
Team Design Patterns – Wrapping it up
Pulling all the ideas together from this article series, I want to leave you with a couple of key thoughts when you are trying to design your agile organization:
Naeem Hussain
Team Design Patterns – Feature teams supported by component teams
In the last article, I outlined the Large Feature Team pattern as a first alternative to the Ideal Team Structure (ITS) if your organization cannot make the immediate leap to the ITS when ...
Brian
Team Design Patterns – Feature Teams and Component Teams
I spent time outlining the guiding principles for organizing agile teams in my last article. With the challenge of delivering business intent where changes to 10’s of platforms / components are ...
Brian
Team Design Patterns – Ideal Team Structure (ITS)
Before I get on with describing the less-than-ideal organizational models, I thought it would be useful to spend some time describing what the Ideal Team Structure looks like to paint the picture of ...
Brian
Agile Organizational Design – Agile Software Delivery
Transforming to an agile software delivery model is filled with lots of challenges, especially when you are talking about solutions delivered in an organization of a large scale. In these large ...