Quality built-in
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Quality built-in

When you notice that the quality of your product isn’t a high as you’d like, what can you do? It’s useful to start by understanding what quality means for your product: how is it defined, how is it measured, and what level is desirable. For example, if your indicator is the number of “escaped defects”…

Context is king
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Context is king

I know the common phrase is “content is king”, but as far as Agile is concerned it’s context that is key. When a team starts a new initiative, it’s important that they understand who it is for, why it is important, what value is it expected to provide, what problem(s) will it solve, etc. Without…

Scaling Up
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Scaling Up

If some is good, then surely more is better? Companies want to expand, and frequently the assumption is that just adding more people will result in successfully growing the organisation. Then, when they realise that’s not working, they decide that what’s needed is more process. Fortunately, there are frameworks which you can install to fix…

Too Many Options
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Too Many Options

Teams collaborate to create high-quality products, and in order to collaborate they need many discussions… but how much discussion is too much? Why do teams need to have discussions at all? Wouldn’t it be quicker if someone created a series of tasks and then the team just implement them? Well, it may be quicker to…