continuous improvement

Scrum Guide changes

by David Lowe
January 22, 2018January 12, 2018
6 min read

In November 2017, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland presented their revisions to The Scrum Guide™. The recording of the webinar is available on Vimeo. It is just over 55 minutes long. Here is a summary of the major changes: 1) Uses of Scrum The new Guide now has an additional… Read More »Scrum Guide changes

Autonomy in practice

by James Wyllie
1 Comment
November 28, 2016November 22, 2016
3 min read

During a recent consulting engagement, I was working with the leadership team on the next phase of their organisational evolution. We were talking about the kind of culture they wanted to build, and the topic of autonomy was raised. The concept of autonomy has been popularised by Dan Pink in… Read More »Autonomy in practice

Continuous Improvement with Team Sky – Taking inspiration from professional cycling

by James Wyllie
July 25, 2016July 25, 2016
4 min read

A friend of mine recently pointed me in the direction of an article by Joao Medeiros in Wired magazine, titled: Behind the scenes with Chris Froome and Team Sky ahead of the Tour De France 2016. As I began to read the article, I was immediately interested, not only because I’m… Read More »Continuous Improvement with Team Sky – Taking inspiration from professional cycling

Turbine – In Brief

by James Wyllie
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May 16, 2016May 15, 2016
3 min read

Turbine is a recently published “methodology” that outlines a vision for the continuous delivery of business value driven software iterations. The creators of Turbine; Marco Tedone and John Ferguson Smart, have put together a manifesto and a supporting structure for how a Turbine style delivery environment can be achieved, consisting of environment conditions… Read More »Turbine – In Brief

Transparency – The Missing Pillar

by James Wyllie
1 Comment
February 19, 2016
2 min read

There are three pillars underpinning any empirical process: transparency, inspection and adaptation. Teams are generally familiar with inspection and adaptation, after all, frameworks like Scrum are quite prescriptive about the need for retrospectives. Teams often overlook transparency. There are a number of ways in which a team can be transparent. Firstly, they can… Read More »Transparency – The Missing Pillar

When gradual improvement is not enough

by Jiten Vara
October 5, 2015July 15, 2022
3 min read

We’ve all heard of the term Kaizen, and we all know that it is the practice of continuous improvement. The practice of Kaizen has served many of the teams and organisations I have worked with well. Teams that were previously floundering in mediocrity grew into great teams by the fact… Read More »When gradual improvement is not enough

Health checks

by David Lowe
7 Comments
January 12, 2015July 15, 2022
2 min read

There are lots of ‘health check models’ out there. Most of them attempt to summarise and visualise how teams are doing, and seek areas of improvements. They are sometimes run by managers, sometimes by coaches, sometimes by teams in workshops. Over the years, I have discarded approaches that ‘score’ teams… Read More »Health checks

My new year’s evolution

by Jiten Vara
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December 31, 2014July 15, 2022
2 min read

So we’ve come to the end of yet another ‘sprint’ known as a year. Each 365 day sprint seems to go by quicker each time. Traditionally this is the time of year when we retrospect on how the last 12 months have gone and we come up with a ‘resolution’… Read More »My new year’s evolution

Kanban risotto

by David Lowe
April 28, 2013May 28, 2014
4 min read

In 2004 I went to a friend’s house for dinner and she served up what can only be described as “a disgusting mush”. This mush was apparently risotto. From that moment on, I was risotto’s biggest opponent. I fought against it whenever it appeared on menus. It was, in my… Read More »Kanban risotto