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Scrum Masters: Take Time Off To Think
There's more than what's in the two-day class to know.
Scrum Masters: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
It bums me out a bit how much scrum masters tend to stick with one methodology – a methodology they learned, usually, at a two-day class. I’ve got nothing against the two-day scrum class. The basics are actually quite good. If used properly, those methodologies will reveal issues a team is having. But a scrum […]
OpEx and CapEx in Agile
A few simple recommendations for managing OpEx and CapEx in Agile.
Working with Procurement in a more Agile way
A few tips on making Procurement part of your Sprint Zero Team
Setting Expectations for Vendor Resources
A few tips to make sure you get the right resources from your vendor for Time & Materials contracts.
The Agile Time and Materials Contract
How to make your Time and Materials (T&M) contracts with your vendors a little bit more Agile.
Business Agility: The Master Services Agreement
The first in a series discussing ways to help your entire organization deliver value a little faster.
Old Rules, New Behaviors
Sometimes old rules help promote new behaviors.
Consultants Bore Quickly
t’s not that hard to figure out when you are working with a consultant who already has a preconceived model he or she thinks will solve your problems. Today in the software delivery world, it’s bound to involve agile, kanban, or design thinking. Not that any well researched and tested methodology or framework is bad, […]
Inside the Bubble
We’re all pretty much living in ‘The Bubble.’ Like the recent SNL skit called it, we’ve designed “a planned community of like-minded free thinkers, and no one else” for ourselves. We hang out with friends who agree with us (the definition of a friend), block cranky commenters (and bad grammarians), and unfollow (but stay friends) […]
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Joe being Joe . . . https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1515408175746404355
Man, this is so good.
Who would have guessed a Bernie meme would be the way we celebrate with a laugh?