A Tale of Two Books

Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash As I write this post, I am reminded of a classic novel – A Tale of Two Cities, with the story happening in Paris and London around the time of the French revolution. The story events reflect the prevalent culture – good and bad – in Paris and London. […]

Five Enablers of Value Flow

One of the beauties of Scrum is its simplicity in converting a Product Backlog into increments of value with just a handful of events. When I engaged with teams in larger enterprise IT functions or large product organizations, I found something more is required to deliver value continuously. Firstly, multiple teams need to work together […]

One (Team) size and structure does not fit all

How does leadership determine how big a team they need (may be organized in multiple scrum / kanban teams) to support a given demand in a portfolio or a program? This is a very involved answer, and, like most answers related to adopting Agile practices, it depends. If someone is asking for a simple formula, […]