We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past.
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Quickfire Questions
Your opinion of Agile, in one word.Personal preference: Public sector or private sector work? What’s the biggest crime against Jira? Worst excuse you’ve ever heard for missing a sprint goal or PI goal, or just not having a bit of work done? Longest you’ve ever seen a story carried over in the next, and the next, and the next sprint? You join a team, day 1, they show you their organisation stuff, and they do all planning in excel. Do you go with the flow, or immediately advocate something else? Why? Biggest red flag that someone isn’t really agile? What’s a task you dread doing throughout the PI increment? Most valuable certifications?## Breaking Prod Leaderboard
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Big topic for the week
How would you describe to a new developer, the definition of modern agile software development? What’s it all about?You’ve done a scrum master / agile lead type role before. How does a department know when it’s ready to start thinking about a scaled agile framework?What sort of problems might they notice first that agile hasn’t seemed to solve for them, even though they’re doing scrum and/or kanban well? If 5 or so teams have identified the problem, how do they get business buy-in to get someone in to help with a scaled agile framework? Have you seen a scaled agile implementation fail? What are the biggest mis-steps in scaled agile failing? How would you even know it’s failing? What sort of stuff gets measured? Are there KPIs? Does it make any impact on individual contributors? Or is this just something that helps their managers and product owners be better organised? Do top software companies do this?Are there any scenarios you’ve seen people implement this, and it was just the wrong idea?News
Google chrome sale from DOJ (MacRumors)Google donates to Trump inauguration (CNBC)Artists release album “Is This What We Want?”, protesting AI (The Guardian)HR managers creates 22 fake employees and cashes their pay check for 10 years (TownFlex.com)Recommendations
SAFe & Scaled Agile
Scaled Agile WebsiteThe Art of Avoiding a Trainwreck (Abe Books)Learning Agile (O'Reilly)Tech
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