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8 Ways to Start Improving Your Work Culture

How’s work? I often find myself talking to people in my network about their work culture, mainly the behaviours and attitudes that are encouraged or tolerated and the organisational values that drive it. Essentially, there are similar work challenges in different professions and across industry sectors. In many organisations, there are no bad people and

BY @BarryAgile IN Culture attitudes, behaviours, consultants, culture, decisions, empower, improvements, inspire, review, trust

Should your project use a Value-Driven approach, Plan-Driven approach or both?

This article originated from numerous discussions on when to use a Value-Driven approach, Plan-Driven approach or both. The practices in both approaches are not totally mutually exclusive, particularly in complex projects: there will always be a need for an appropriate level of governance, a plan and some things will need to happen in order. Each

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Lean, Value Driven Agile, eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Lightweight, Management, PRINCE2®, Scrum, Waterfall

Why Measure Lead & Cycle Time?

This article covers some common questions on the purpose of Lead Time and Cycle Time measurements in software development. Lead Time and Cycle Time means different things to different people, depending on when the clock starts, team purpose and industry, so let’s be specific on what states or steps can be measured, with the Definition

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Development, Kanban, Lean, Management, Team Agile, CycleTime, Kanban, LeadTime, Lean, Visualise, Workflow

Leading Agile Teams in Practice

There are many ways to lead multiple Agile Teams, with some approaches being more effective than others. The Agile police may caution me after reading this (which I’ve preemptively created solidarity hashtags for), so to be clear: this article describes one tailored approach to leading multiple teams to deliver a technically complex product using Agile

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile Agile, Kanban, Lean, Lightweight, Management, Scrum

Project Constraints vs Individual Constraints: Why ‘best practice’ projects are still failing

With so many methodologies and years of experience being applied to modern projects, why are so many still unsuccessful? Even with a talented team and a delivery approach following all the best practices of the day, there is an underlying and often unsaid challenge that undermines even the most well defined projects. This missing piece of the

BY @BarryAgile IN Management Management, Stakeholders, Team

Is your team really Agile or mini Waterfall?

We have all heard it before: a team states with some confidence how Agile or Lean they are, maybe because they work in iterations (or sprints), manage their work on task boards or both. However, what is often unclear and usually controversial is, are they really practicing Agile or are they mini Waterfall or ‘Wagile’? We

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Development, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Management, Planning, Scrum, Team, Waterfall

Should defects be estimated?

Within a development iteration or sprint, ensuring a story meets its acceptance criteria and passes its test case should be part of the story estimate and the Definition of Done. If a number of defects are identified after the iteration where the story was completed, e.g. identified during Regression Testing of the entire product in

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Development, Estimation, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Management, Planning, Scrum, Team

Why JIRA is best for managing tasks on larger projects

There are dozens of popular tools currently being used to help manage Agile projects. For managing tasks on large or complex projects, however, JIRA has proven to be a more useful tool than than Trello. This is for a number of reasons, which are not limited to the following. Swimlanes – Trello does not have Epic, Assignee,

BY @BarryAgile IN Agile, Agile Tools, Case Study JIRA, Team, Trello