Friday, December 29, 2017

Comparing #Agile Projects Pricing models

How do I sell agile to my customers? How do we balance risks fairly between the customer and the supplier? After all we don’t want either the customer or the supplier carries all the risk, which doesn't sufficiently push both parties to take their responsibility.


Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Complexity is strangling your organization’s productivity.

"Today's DANCE-world (Dynamic and Changing, Ambiguous and uncertain, Non-linear, Complex and Emergent and unpredictable) has caused increasing disruption in business and beyond. To survive in a disruptive world, speed and agility are key and simplicity is a strategic imperative. “Our enemy is not the competition, it is unnecessary complexity in our processes.” You have to create a culture where you can work together and focus on initiatives and projects that matter the most, make jobs easier, simplify processes and enhance customer experience."


Tuesday, December 19, 2017

What are the characteristic of a good agile coach?

Agile Coaching is an approach to foster an organisation shift to improve the work, the behaviours, and the outcomes in the context of the development of solutions/products. It is not only about adopt framework X or Y. Agile Coaching is about how to enable people to respond more quickly, with less risk, and more qualitatively for business opportunities.

To provide this ennoblement, there are few characteristics that an agile coach cant do without.


QUALITIES OF AN EFFECTIVE TEAM PLAYER

Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.

Monday, December 18, 2017

Agile Managers are key . Develop them or...

When we hire or develop agile executives, great things happen. These practices allow agile managers to rapidly sense change, manage risk and create value in a chaotic economic context. 
It improves results in any environment that demands creativity—software development, marketing, business development, automobile design, content development, etc.—but most of all in running your organization.


Saturday, December 16, 2017

Organization briers to agile coaching

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Built-in-Quality : Don’t make a defect Don’t accept a defect Don’t pass a defect!


Do NOT rely on inspection to catch defects. Actually, if you are successful at Built-in Quality, you may not even need inspection! A key element of any manufacturing organization’s strategy is to also achieve exceptional levels of product quality. The most efficient and effective way to guarantee high-quality performance is through the use of a concept called Built-In-Quality. it allows an organization to move from the detection and containment of defects to preventing defects from ever being produced.  


Sunday, December 3, 2017

Agile testing automation strategies and trends

Friday, December 1, 2017

Deloitte Joins Adobe And Accenture In Dumping Performance Reviews

"Performance management systems can also create ill-will, filling employees and managers with dread." A change was needed. this is how they did it: