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Scrum and Innovation, Part II
Series: “Scrum and the Copernican Revolution” Does the Agile / Scrum software development paradigm encourage innovation, or discourage it? We continue to explore this topic in part II of our little fantasy. As you’ll recall from part I, we are imagining that the Copernican revolution in Astronomy happened during the course of a Scrum-driven effort to [...]
Continue reading...If you haven’t suffered, you’re not using Agile
29. July 2009, by Jim Walsh
It used to be a common cliché that an artist could not be truly “great” unless he or she had “suffered”. I suppose this expression has fallen into disuse because there are many examples of great artists who enjoyed happy childhoods, were rewarded with early success and a reasonable degree of material prosperity, and who [...]
Continue reading...Scrum and Innovation, Part I
3. July 2009, by Jim Walsh
Series: “Scrum and the Copernican Revolution” Does the Agile / Scrum software development paradigm encourage innovation, or discourage it? Agile / Scrum is a highly disciplined approach when implemented correctly, so this is a question that could go either way. My answer: the methodology is neutral, and can be used to encourage or discourage innovation. If [...]
Continue reading...Behaviours and teams
14. November 2008, by Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
From Dov Seidman on ‘Outperforming by Outbehaving’ But in our commoditized world, we are running out of areas of differentiation. In trying to find them, we look for the sources of great variation. There is one area where tremendous variation and variability still exists-one that we have not yet analyzed, quantified and systematized and one, in [...]
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24. August 2009, by Jim Walsh
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