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Radical Simplification

October 17, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes

Less But Better
Dieter Rams, the industrial designer known for “less, but better.”

More than ever, companies are under pressure to be more productive and effective.

Yet it seems inevitable: as your company grows, so does complexity, leading to inefficiencies.

All this complexity—is it truly inevitable?

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Industry

August 18, 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutes

Industry
“Do you want to operate within a system and be successful? Or do you want to dream you can change it and be left behind?”
Industry, Season 2, Episode 8, “Jerusalem”

Simply put, Agile is dead. Then again—is it?

It all began with a group of independent-minded software professionals who got together to “talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground.” They agreed on a common set of values in the pursuit of better ways of developing software, published them on a website, and so the “manifesto for agile software development” was born.

This was 2001.

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Agile Industrial

July 29, 2022
Reading Time: 6 minutes

The first Industrial Revolution
Are you ready for a new industrial revolution?

Want Agile? No two ways about it, there are only two ways to go: Native or Industrial. Go another way and, sure enough, your quest for “agility” will yield . . . anything but.

Of the two ways, the Native way ­­is the best place to start. After all, it’s what Agile has been all about—until now.

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Waste and Wander

November 28, 2020
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Waste and Wander
“Waste” with Page McConnell and Trey Anastasio at The Barn (2020).

That nagging feeling that you should be doing something else right now.

It’s time to slow down, my friends.

If your meetings are back to back, let’s face it, you have too many meetings.

If your first instinct is to check your email, don’t.

If you scrum, unscrum.

Take a deep breath and think about it:

There’s never enough time to do something right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”
—Melvin Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

So unwind and wander.

Wandering is an essential counter-balance to efficiency. You need to employ both. The outsized discoveries—the ‘non-linear’ ones—are highly likely to require wandering.”
—Jeff Bezos, 2018 Letter to Shareholders

And when you’re ready, come waste your time with me.

Agile Royale

October 15, 2020
Reading Time: 1 minute

King Arthur Baking Company, formerly King Arthur Flour, founded in 1790.

It’s clear what King Arthur Baking stands for:

“We are bakers, committed now as always to spreading the joy of baking. The joy of being part of a tradition and contributing to a craft. And of course, the joy your cookies, cakes, breads and pies bring to your life and the lives of others. That’s the power of baking.”

Now, replace “bakers/baking” with “makers/making,” and “cookies and pies” with “products,” and you’ll get the gist of Agile.

Indeed, Agile is for makers, not managers.

And the joy of Agile is the power of Agile, not process and tools, nor metrics.

Agile is about the mushy stuff of values and culture.”
—Jim Highsmith, About the Manifesto

So think of yourself as a King Arthur baker. Be a King Agile maker.

If you are a manager: be an enabler, not an enforcer.

And no matter what, do your part, and let good things rise.

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Industry

Industry

Is Agile dead? The choice is yours: cynicism or idealism.

The first Industrial Revolution

Agile Industrial

Two ways to go: Native or Industrial.

Waste and Wander

Waste and Wander

If you scrum, unscrum.

Agile Royale

The joy of Agile is the power of Agile.

Pink Agile

Agile is three things.

Chief Agility Officer

Ruf and Conway agree: committees don’t work.

Chez Agile Chef

Start with good ingredients and discern for yourself.

Work Not Done

Maximize the amount of work not done.

Mastery: The Good and the Ugly

Rethink Scrum “Master.”

Agile Fight Club

The first rule of Agile.

Mixed Agile Arts

Practices you proudly call your own.

Carefully Outline

Incremental implementation is good, not incremental thinking.

Just Enough

The right amount, of the right kind, at the right time.

A Team’s Quest

Continuous improvement driven by teams.

No Data for Great

Data is not the thing.

Yet Another Framework

Do you own your process, or does your process own you?

Agile at Scale Using Containers

See and simplify your organization as a set of containers.

The Art and Evil of Simplicity

Simplicity, from true goodness to hallucination.

Routines and Systems

Routines only scratch the surface.

Points

Own and hone your point estimation scales and skills.

User Stories

Clear chunks of functionality.

People First

With the right people, good things can happen.

Agile and Cloud for Bold Companies

Go all in.

Complexity Is the Enemy

Complexity Is the Enemy

Vision without simplification is hallucination.

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Take the first step.

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