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Seeing the World Through Agile-Colored Glasses

There are many misconceptions about what Agile means. Here are a few of the most common that I've heard: Agile is a development methodology. Well, not really, but there are a group of methods that ...

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3 Easy Agile Fixes to Boost Your Productivity of your Agile Implementation

Agile frameworks, like Scrum, are generally easy to understand. With many teams where we have taught and coached, there are some common mindset and practice tweaks that make a real difference to ...

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SAFe for Small Value Streams – The Portfolio Level and Wrapping It Up

At the Portfolio Level, there are really no significant impacts for SVS pattern organizations. We still use Kanban systems to manage the business epic and architecture epic pipelines that flow into ...

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We are speaking at Agile DC!

We are happy to announce that Naeem and Brian will be speaking at Agile DC 2014 on Tuesday, October 21st. Our session is called “Hop Onto the Release Orientation Trolley”. This session was first be ...

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Envision Your Agile Destination - Release Orientation

An agile transformation journey implies a starting point, where you are now, and a destination. That destination might not be the final end point for your transformation journey, but that destination ...

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Joy, Inc. - Great read, great approach!

Naeem and I had the pleasure of presenting “Hop Onto the Release Orientation Trolley” at the Global Scrum Gathering in New Orleans last week. When you speak or go to a conference, you figure the ...

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Thanks for a great Scrum Gathering 2014!

It was a great week at Global Scrum Gathering in New Orleans! We really appreciated all the energetic participation by the attendees at our session, “Hop Onto the Release Orientation Trolley”. We ...

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Making the Agile Move

There are many considerations on how to make the move from Project Orientation to Release Orientation. Probably more than any other, the key is a belief in moving your organization’s mindset to the ...

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From the "Ugly Box of Ideas" to an Agile project - Digital Strategy & Release Orientation

So, does this picture bring up bad memories of late November or early December – out in the cold, hanging these up and not sure if all or any of these bulbs were going to light? For me, this picture ...

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What is Release Orientation?

Project oriented organizations focus entirely on getting a related set of intent packaged into a container called a project and seeing that entire container move through from requirements generation ...

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