The enhanced cameras on the latest releases of smart phones is continuous improvement. Having a patient use that phone camera to take a picture of a rash and send it to their doctor is continuous innovation.
Are you Agile with a little “a”
This past winter I received a great piece of advice from an Agile Coach. It was not to get hung up on titles, to consider a gig based on whether or not you feel it will be a great learning opportunity for you. There can be very big differences in what a person with a given title does at one company as opposed to another.
When did compare become contrast?
I think that we have often lost the art of compare. Compare seems to have morphed into another form of contrast. We compare and find something lacking. We compare ourselves to people and decide they are the other. Or we decide we have something lacking and it erodes our self-esteem.
Is limited access to a Product Owner on an Agile team a bottleneck?
In some environments they have limited access to the Product Owner because the PO has multiple duties and responsibility to the business and customers. In system language… Does that make the Product Owner a single-point-of-failure?
A comparison of Agile User Stories to Lean Startup Value Proposition
I can’t help look at the User Story as being a form of Value Proposition. Or re-framed, the Value Proposition being a company’s over-reaching umbrella Agile Epic.
In an Agile world, how do you handle balancing being open to co-creation and owning IP?
One of the tenets of the Agile Manifesto is “Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”. I do believe this can be a good example of the greyness in the final statement “That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.” That you do need to address the issue of who owns what at some point and get that in writing.
