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Interviews with a Natural Agilist
By Brian Lucas “Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” – Marcus Aurelius “When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to … Continue reading
Is Agile a Return to Common Sense?
By Brian Lucas “Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe A post of mine, “HCM, HIM and Agile are Perfect Together“, had the following reply from Dave Francavilla: Brian, Very … Continue reading
Posted in Agile Arguments, Agile for Beginners, Agile for Software Development, Agile in the Enterprise, Interview with a Natural Agilist
Tagged Agile, Agile Methods, Agile Thinking, Business Agility, Business Management, Founding Fathers, History, Keeping Agile, Logic, Management, Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, Time Travel
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Using Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server to Your Agile Best
By: Dave Smith and Brian Lucas Since I posted the first set of tips about TFS usage for agile, I received so many requests for additional information that my friend and colleague Dave and I happily collaborated on a list … Continue reading
HCM, HIM and Agile are Perfect Together
By Brian Lucas In the recent past, I was asked to address the subject of human capital management, the emergence of human interaction management and their effect on agile. The fact is that the people element in the system is … Continue reading
Tips for Using Microsoft TFS with Agile
By Brian Lucas While I don’t, as a policy, generally make product recommendations; I do feel comfortable offering tips and tricks about a particular tools use. Particularly a very popular one. Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) is very popular and … Continue reading
What do you do with an entrenched skeptic?
By Brian Lucas “Facts are stubborn things; whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – JOHN ADAMS What can you do when someone honestly doesn’t … Continue reading
A Simple Definition of Kanban Leads to Agile Productivity
By Brian Lucas “If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell…” – Meister Eckhart I was discussing Kanban the other day with several people who were very confused by the concepts. One viewed it as Kanban vs. … Continue reading
Scott Ambler on The Glacial Methodology™ Workshop: A Data-Centric Software Development Process
I love a tongue in cheek satire especially about dogmatically held beliefs. Here is a great one by Scott Ambler. It could readily be applied to those who believe in creating copious amounts of documentation and following a waterfall process instead … Continue reading
Middle of the Road CIOs are Getting Hit by the Innovation Truck
By Brian Lucas “It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.” –Alvin Toffler The other day I heard a manager state that he was “a middle of the road kind of guy.” At … Continue reading
Posted in Agile and Strategic Planning, Agile Arguments, Agile in the Enterprise, Agile Thinking
Tagged Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Business Agility, Business Management, C Level, CEO, CIO, Cloud Computing, Information, Innovation, Organization Structure, scrum, Software Development, Technology
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From the Leader’s Guide to Radical Management by Stephen Denning
By Brian Lucas “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” -Mark Twain The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management by Stephen Denning … Continue reading
Agile Concepts Graphics
By Brian Lucas I created this simple graphic to demonstrate what the generic concept behind agile is. What are your favorite agile diagrams?
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Tagged Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Business Agility, scrum, Software Development
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Agile Savings versus Traditional Methods
By Brian Lucas Time-to-market savings realized by agile methods comes from many different aspects of agile’s natural mechanisms and flows. Most of these have a combined effect that contributes even greater economies. To begin with let us look at two … Continue reading
Posted in Agile for Software Development
Tagged Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Business Agility, scrum, Software Development
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Why CEOs Fail in Today’s Agile Business Environment
By Brian Lucas “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin CEOs have always come in all flavors … Continue reading
Employee Suggestions
By Brian Lucas “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” -John Steinbeck A glimpse of life in an agile business versus a non-agile enterprise. At the … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Companies – A glimpse of life in an agile business versus a non-agile enterprise.
By Brian Lucas “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin If you look at the history of people and progress, you’ll see three types of people: those who are … Continue reading
Posted in A Tale of Two Companies, Agile and Strategic Planning, Agile Arguments, Agile for Beginners, Agile in the Enterprise, Employee Suggestions
Tagged Agile, Agile Methods, Agile Thinking, Agility, Business Agility, Business Managment, Employee Satisfaction, Human Capital, Keeping Agile, Management, Organization, scrum, Software Development
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Debunking the Case Against Agile
By Brian Lucas “A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.” William James (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist. The Case Against Agile: Ten Perennial Management Objections, which was … Continue reading
My first agile project
By Brian Lucas “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao-tzu I have received so many emails and phone calls (how did all these people get my cell phone number) since I started this blog. The majority … Continue reading
When to use epic user stories
By Brian Lucas One day a traveler, walking along a lane, came across 3 stonecutters working in a quarry. Interested to find out what they were working on, he asked the first stonecutter what he was doing. “I am cutting … Continue reading
Posted in Agile for Software Development
Tagged Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Methods, Business Agility, scrum, Software Development
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So what is Agile?
By Brian Lucas I am dedicating my first post to Michael Milutis, who encouraged me to begin blogging and sharing the small store of wisdom I have gathered over the years. Here’s to you Mike! “By three methods we may … Continue reading
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