by Joshua Barnes | Feb 8, 2023
Is the size of work the minimum scope to provide value a customer can consume? In most cases, the answer is no. However, whether it is a project, business case, charter, work package, epic, etc., we can almost always identify a minimum business increment. Relentless...
by Joshua Barnes | Jan 19, 2023
Here we have a common problem. The “agile team” comprises a product owner, team coach, and team members. Far too often, I hear something like, “there are no project managers in agile.” Agile teams are empowered to make decisions and determine how to get the work done....
by Joshua Barnes | Jan 11, 2023
Delivering value continues to increase in complexity and is driven more than ever by digital transformations. The result is a growing emphasis on dependency management and coordination – but that will only get you so far. As organizations realize the benefits of...
by Joshua Barnes | Mar 28, 2022
Disciplined Agile (“DA”) is a sizable body of agile and lean knowledge, and it keeps growing. Is there a simplified version of Disciplined Agile? Yes, I know of many simplified versions of DA. However, before jumping right to the simplified versions, I...
by Joshua Barnes | Mar 24, 2022
Last week I was asked to deliver a Disciplined Agile training course on short notice. Coverage was needed for the training by someone with lots of experience delivering this specific course and significant experience coaching teams to put the theory learned into...
by Joshua Barnes | Oct 20, 2021
Melvin Conway developed an adage stating, “any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” The adage has become known as Conway’s Law, and it articulates how, over...
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