In a previous article, I wrote about how Scrum with Kanban can help deal with complex problems. Scrum with Kanban helps people discover and deliver outcomes faster, whether related to the customer, organization or reducing risk. Adding Lean UX techniques to Scrum with Kanban allows teams to discover and…

How do we balance UX with shipping fast in scrum? It’s a loaded question really because it’s suggesting that we need to ship, that we need to build anything. a lot of ideas should never be built. Ellen Gottesdeiner has a book by the title, discover to deliver and it’s…

Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system. It’s suited to complex problems because it helps deal with uncertainty, a central feature of complex professional knowledge work. Let’s explore the Kanban practices and its other aspects and how…

The words “commit” and “commitment” feature prominently in the 2020 Scrum Guide, and it’s not just about the artifacts. “The Scrum Team commits to achieving its goals and to supporting each other… when the Scrum Team and the people they work with embody these values, the empirical Scrum pillars of…

The buck stops with the product owner. There’s three accountabilities in scrum: the product owner, the scrum master and developers. I guess we would really want the scrum master and the developers to be doing some of that stakeholder engagement. For example, during the sprint, I hope the developers have…

I think this is a software development question, for the persons involved in software development. In software development, they have these kinds of steps of how the work gets done. And if you’re not in software, you might also have some kind of workflow. The work gets done in a…

I received a question: do you believe scrum and agility can be scaled and what’s the best approach to it? And then the follow-up to the question was maybe a framework that is already familiar to the masses like LeSS, SAFe Nexus. I want to walk through each of these…

I learn all the time, and 2021 taught me a lot. Based on those lessons, I’d like to share an update on what organizational agility means to me in 2022. I hope you find it useful for what it does and does not mean for you. Let’s start by discussing what organizational agility is not. Sometimes it’s easier to…

Let’s approach this from a slightly different angle by looking at how Scrum with Kanban can help people deal with complexity. Complexity often requires collaboration, not necessarily between teams, but between groups, crews, or individuals. Scrum already helps teams deal with complexity, so what does Kanban bring to the mix?