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We’re speaking at Agile PA!

We are happy to announce that Naeem and Brian will be Keynote Speakers at Agile PA on Wednesday, May 14th, at 6 PM. Our session is called “Hop Onto the Release Orientation Trolley”. This session will ...

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Blazed and Confused - Agile Transformation

Here is a reprint of my article originally published with Scrum Alliance in March 2014. Enjoy! Been blazed and confused for so long it’s not true . . . So, your Agile transformation journey has been ...

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Passed the Certified Scrum Professional Exam!

Happy to report that I took the Certified Scrum Profession (CSP) exam this morning and passed with flying colors! My biggest reason for working towards the exam was using it as a forcing function to ...

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The Big Lever

I have a new article published today with Scrum Alliance on why release orientation (vs. project orientation) is so important to being agile and critical to scaled agile.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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SAFe for Small Value Streams – The Program Level

When considering the Program Level of SAFe applied to Small Value Streams (SVS's - see the first article in the series for an introduction to SVS's), I will describe SAFe elements that "work out of ...

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