Leaning Agile Latest Blogs
14
Oct
The Echo Effect: Improving feedback listening skills
We’ve all been there — mid-conversation on a bad cell connection, your own voice bouncing back through the line half a se...
14
Oct
The Outcome Clock: Aligning to Metrics That Matter
Introduction: Why Outcome Metrics Matter
Too often, teams and leaders alike find themselves buried in productivity metrics that don’t ...
06
Aug
Splitting User Stories in Hardware Design
Learning from Software Development
John Miller, Dwayne Stroman
When we think about Agile and SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework) in the ha...
19
Feb
The 3 Reasons for Value Stream Mapping
(originally published February 9, 2018)
The Problem
Value Stream Mapping is a great technique to understand how an organization deliv...
19
Feb
Don’t Blame the System!
(Originally published July 7, 2020)
W. Edwards Deming's taught us that, in his experience, 94% of the problems are with the syst...
19
Feb
Why has “Agile” become a negative buzzword?
Why do many companies struggle to achieve success with Agile implementations?
The answer is simple: many companies are using Agile for...
19
Feb
Flow Metric 7: Flow Turbulence (Proposed)
Lean Principle 3: Make value flow without interruptions.
SAFe Lean Agile Principle 6 – Make Value Flow without Interruptions
In today...
19
Feb
Value Streams in SAFe: A new way of creating Lean Flow
(Original Publish Date: October 24, 2018)
Value Streams and SAFe® are almost synonymous. Without the former, the latter would struggl...
19
Feb
Lead with Purpose
(Original publish date: Aug 23, 2019)
I was walking through the airport the other day and a young family was walking in front of me. ...
Scaled Agile Blog Posts
Practice Makes Permanent
Gaining the right skills in SAFe® before locking them into your culture
Creative Tension
The excitement of finding improvement opportunities
PI Planning to Discover
Tips and techniques to make PIP the discovery session it was meant to be
True Agile Teams and Trains
Avoiding the standard message about “what is a team?” and instead sharing some thought-provoking ideas about what is a true Agile Team.