As public sector and government agencies come to grips with the fact that UX is critical to project and product success, a common question resurfaces time and again: How do we add Lean UX practices to our current Agile process?
You’ve seen it: Agile Fatigue, Lean Lethargy, SAFe Cracked, DAD Deadbeaten, Kanban Corrupted. We’ve been ritualed, frameworked, and holocracized until we’re blind. All to the point that people sit around and say, “Is my shirt Agile?” “Can I document anything anymore?” “Am I allowed to have work that isn’t on …
Velocity is one of the most common metrics used (and misused) on Agile and Scrum projects. Velocity is simply a measurement of speed in a given direction; the rate at which a team is delivering toward a product release. As with a vehicle en route to a particular destination, increasing …
Some enterprise IT organisations are adopting Continuous Delivery and DevOps thinking that tools is enough to do the job, that all of a sudden they will go faster to market and build quality in because they are automating their existing delivery process. Just throwing tools at the problem is not …
This talk presents a method for Agile product planning and analysis with application examples. Discover to deliver is a method was recently published by Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman, recognized experts in Agile requirements management and collaboration. Discover to deliver aims to help software teams discover valuable features to deliver …
ING Bank is one of the largest banks in a small country (the Netherlands), with a long history as a system bank in the Dutch society. Until five years ago, ING had a traditional IT organisation. The management believed in Prince II, CMMI, ITIL, outsourcing and large programs. When that …
