Posts by Robert Pieper
You Can’t Buy Agile Like a Diet Pill
If you’re in the market to improve your company’s ability to delight customers or looking to reduce the time it takes to get new product enhancements to your customer, you’re probably asking about ‘agile’. If you have quality problems that constantly delay releases, you’re probably looking to be ‘agile’. If you’ve noticed that all the…
Read MoreUse Waterfall to Be Agile
Ever heard of Water-Scrum-Fall? Ever heard someone in a product development group tell you “they use a hybrid-agile approach”? There are a million ways people continue using a traditional, phase gated, software development lifecycle approach and marry it with an agile framework or methodology. They’ll put familiar labels on meetings to get some of the benefits.…
Read MoreThe Top 3 Scrum Team Mistakes Holding You Back
If you’ve learned Scrum and tried to apply it in a large organization, you’ve probably hit some roadblocks. Getting dedicated people for your team is hard. Building a true cross-functional team is harder. Breaking work into small, valuable problems customers actually care about? That’s the hardest. After advising many Scrum teams, I see the same…
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