Product Owners: where to begin?
The Product Owner’s skills and contributions are key factors for the success of Agile software development teams. Here is how the Product Owner’s role is described in the Scrum Guide: The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team. How …
Sorry the new Champlain Bridge can’t be built using Agile…
Agility is now indispensable for developing products and services. Indispensable? Really? Perhaps not always. Agile approaches are not the answer to all our woes, and it would be interesting to ask ourselves in which contexts they are most relevant. Why is building a bridge using an Agile approach not a …
Agile Scaling Playbook
Have you noticed, as I did, that the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework for enterprises) training material focuses mainly on the basics of Agility? Well, it’s normal! Even if big organizations have found Agile scaling frameworks to their measure (SAFe, DaD[1], Nexus, and LeSS[2]), it does not exclude the fact that …
Measuring success – How do you verify the success of your projects?
Being always on the lookout for new ways of reaching the objectives fixed for projects, I was affected by this article: Informatisation à la justice: une dépense inutile de 75M$ (Computerization of Justice: unnecessary expenses of $75M). Not so much because it is a public project, but rather because I …
Sorry, the new Champlain Bridge can’t be built using Agile…
Agility is now indispensable for developing products and services. Indispensable? Really? Perhaps not always. Agile approaches are not the answer to all our woes, and it would be interesting to ask ourselves in which contexts they are most relevant. Why is building a bridge using an Agile approach not a …