What happened to double-loop learning in agile?
Back in my day times were hard. I don’t want to shock you, but my corporate life began last century before even Twitter and Slack existed. You can imagine how slow-moving and inefficient we were, but we knew we could do better and so we focused on improving. We came up with many new ideas, both…
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Tester – Specialist Title or Generalising Specialist?
Are you someone who has spent years as a manual tester, following a familiar testing process, using a tried and tested set of techniques - the result of years of specialisation; perhaps you were a test analyst or a ‘QA’ or you took on a similar role in a previous life and you were clear on the part…
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Imperfect agile, or fit for purpose?
I have been looking at patterns for “agile release approaches” and in this article, I will be looking at some more patterns that I have observed. But I got a bit distracted by the philosophy of value and so I will be meandering for a little while before I get back on topic.
If a team creates value…
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Webinar: How to become a T-shaped professional
SoftEd's David Mantica discusses the skills employees need to thrive in our increasingly complex and changing workplaces. Watch the webinar above.
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Business value analysis podcast with David Mantica
In the latest Mastering Business Analysis podcast, David Mantica chats about how we can overcome one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today – understanding value and building the right solution. It all comes down to value such as business value or customer value. The problem is that…
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Hiring for the agile mindset
If you spend time researching and educating yourself on agile as a way of working, you will come to the point where you have an “ah-ha” moment around the key foundation for agile success. We have been conditioned over the years, to believe success resides in action and activity. The more action and…
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Continuous (“ish”) release patterns in agile teams
When I first worked with an agile team, we released our work into production whenever we wanted to. We were able to do our own testing, our own release control and our own communication with users. We also supported our own work. We released some things during the day and others outside normal…
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What is an agile coach?
Agile coaching is about far more than being able to facilitate a retrospective or provide guidance on building a burn-up chart. Agile coaching requires a deep concern for the team, as individuals and as a cohesive group, and the ability to help others reach their full potential. The goal of the…
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Product owner and scrum master metrics
Now that agile has gone mainstream, I often find that people are concerned about the performance of the members of an agile team. In particular, people seem interested in how we measure the product owner and team facilitator roles (scrum master, agile coach, celebrity post-it note artiste etc). When…
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Experimenting with bad coaching habits
When I first became a coach it was great. I really enjoyed coaching and people told me that they found me really helpful. But I noticed that, while I was able to help people solve problems and gain “aha” moments, I seemed to be having the same conversations again and again. People seemed to be great…
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How will it work? The future how viewpoint
In a previous article Business Analysis Viewpoints, we discussed a number of ways of looking at systems. The intention of these viewpoints is to make it easier to see and understand the real business problem. This article focuses on the fourth viewpoint, the Future-How, which looks at the solution…
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Webinar: Becoming invaluable. The T-shaped professional
What are the most crucial skills that software developers and engineers need to have? Most people, when asked this question would say that mathematical proficiency and technological expertize are most important. For many years now training and education have focused on building STEM (science…
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