Succeed where agile adoption has stalled, 5 tips to get it moving!
Whenever a new policy, benefit program, rule, regulation, or a new tool is introduced to an organization, some type of plan is created to help
Pausing to reflect on the topic of this blog, we became paralyzed by nostalgia for a few hours while we reminisced about our educational experiences. Some of us really enjoyed school and others, not so much.
As we reflected on those years, some of us couldn’t remember anything we learned unless it was a class that taught a life skill or a subject we enjoyed.
Whenever a new policy, benefit program, rule, regulation, or a new tool is introduced to an organization, some type of plan is created to help
Scrum Masters are an important part of an agile team as they are responsible for mentoring, teaching, coaching, and facilitating teams on how to be
Pausing to reflect on the topic of this blog, we became paralyzed by nostalgia for a few hours while we reminisced about our educational experiences.
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Agile teams, if designed well, are a group of about ten to twelve people who have all the necessary skills to complete an increment of
The definition of an Agile Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a passion for agile such as Agile Coaches who
Over the past few years, many people of various professions relocated from working in offices to a new location; home. For some people, this provided
It’s a myth and we need to stop feeding it! “Agile won’t work for us because we’re not doing software development.” Have you ever seen
Disciplined Agile. At first, this may appear to be an oxymoron. Disciplined is defined as controlled and some define “agile” as a philosophy in which
Get Disciplined This is the right time to scale your agile knowledge! Businesses today must adapt, change, and grow or face greater challenges over time.
Agile and Success are both journey’s without a single destination. How can we start, continue and evolve. Read on to find out!
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Mr. James, Ronald, Maverick holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at The University of Texas, San Antonio.
Mr. Maverick or JR as many call him is a “slick” but warm and friendly character in our upcoming book on the DevOps Mindset. Mr. Maverick cares about his IT team very much and could charm the socks off a Texas Longhorn. JR is liked by many in his organization; however, he is not as well trusted by the Overlords as he used to be. Mr. Maverick has a group of loyal staff, including Mr. Barker a bit of an opposite to JR. Of course, Mr. Barker would never call him JR; he would only call him Mr. Maverick because well, Mr. Maverick is his boss. Mr. Maverick has held many IT positions in the past, including starting as a Sales Professional for HP and IBM mini and mainframe computers. Over the years he has risen through the ranks to hold this senior position by delivering using high-paid consultants and Big name firms. He also received his promotion from outsourcing to a foreign country where he was able to reduce his IT spend significantly. Recently he has discovered (actually this was made painfully aware to him by the Overlords) that both the Offshore roadmap and use of external consultants was not giving him the value and velocity for his IT department, and he was probably paying more than he bargained for
So, after hearing a talk at a DevOps event by the Agents of Chaos, JR decided to enlist them to help with their digital transformation roadmap and help improve the value, focus and velocity of his department. However, MR. Maverick has a few ideas about agile and DevOps, something he has heard about for a while and read in various CIO magazines; he thinks of these as Marketing terms and something that can be bought. While Mr. Maverick has held on for many years to traditional IT ways of working he has come to the end of his tenure if he doesn’t do something fast and get DevOps working quickly as he has promised to the Overlords providing him with a little more rope to get the transformation completed more quickly as they view his IT department ageing, procrastinators who are not able to keep up with business demands. JR says in his mind, “I will get it done, they don’t call me Maverick for nothing!“
