Blog Series: A Decade in Agile
10 years…
Ten whole years of
my working life dedicated to creating software through agile methods. A lot of
things have changed since those first few sprints. Lots of lessons learned,
(usually the hard way), plenty of experience from working with lots of
different people, with difference perspectives, in different locations, with
diverse cultures and in unique companies.
As I went through
the highs and lows of agile adoption I wrote a small but detailed blog along
the way. These ‘epistles’ were usually written when I had considerable
motivation to tell the story – when on a high from success, or a low from
learning things the hard way. These blogs became a vehicle to vent frustration or
expound virtues of some new insight or shift in mind-set.
Over these first
weeks of 2013, I’m going to take some time to review these blogs, and
retrospectively comment, amend and critique the thinking at the time, against
the years of experience that have followed. Maybe I’ll learn something new along
the way and I hope you’ll enjoy the journey too. There are 2 main categories of
blogs I’ll be reviewing:
Category
1: The Basics & Tactics
These blogs are
more for the people in the trenches actually using Scrum in anger (or bliss!)
and consists of lessons, insights and patterns that have proven useful.
·
How
Adopting Agile Increases Business Benefits
·
The 10
Commandments of Agile Planning
·
Which
Agile Method?
·
Launch,
launch, launch
·
Agile
Metrics & Scorecards
·
Constraining
Agility
·
The
Machine that Changed the World
·
A Nod
to a Solid Team
Category 2: Transformational & Strategic
These blogs are aimed
at the executive or change management audience emphasising key concepts,
mind-sets and expectations when leading agile change initiatives:
·
CIO/IT
Director – What Agile Means to You
·
Implementing
Agile: Top-down or Bottom-up
·
Inversion
Management: 21st Century Leadership
·
Agile
& Transformational Leadership
·
Lost in
Translation
·
Organisational
Patterns
·
Fearless
Change
·
Emotional
Intelligence
·
The Cellular
Business Model
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