Abandon all efforts to get better at Scrum, SAFe, or whatever Agile snake oil you’ve been pitched. None of those make a difference. Whether your organization is good at Scrum, or terrible at it, the outcome is the same. As for SAFe, the closer you get – the worse things are. For ordinary software development
For various reasons, software development has long been overseen by Project Management. Since the 1970’s, every major attempt to reform software development with an iterative-incremental lifecycle, from Royce’s Waterfall to Boehm’s Spiral to Rational’s Unified Process to modern Agile, has run into the same brick wall: Project Management.
Software organizations have been creating estimates for more than 60 years. The industry is still not very good at it.
Build fast with strong centers I spent the first half of my career as a software engineer working for large companies, then I went into consulting where I continue to work with a variety of businesses. I have built dozens of software applications and maintain many of them even today. My early experiences of building
Eliminating the arbitrary two- or three-week boundaries increases productivity immediately
Demo Thursday is the unifying, weekly event that enables all stakeholders to come together and:
1. Validate the product
2. Assess progress
3. Align priorities
4. Mature the delivery mechanisms
Every feature, every capability, every line of code must earn its way into the system by proving to the designer that it supports the Strong Center of the product.
