Management consultant on scaling lean & agile product development with large-scale Scrum, and author of popular texts on agile and multisite & offshore, and on software analysis & design. More/contact...
Outsourcing & Offshore Agile Delivery with Scrum (part 1)
Interesting Spock-toid of the month
This research could be a profound milestone in science; it hints at the real core, subtle mechanism of memory encoding. it involves interaction of calcium-calmodulin dependent kinase complex II and tubulin protein compounds, which occupy the interiors of brain neurons. More at the Interesting Things Blog...
Reflecting our work over recent years, this text explores scaling lean and agile development with Large-Scale Scrum. It was written with my co-author Bas Vodde, who has long and in-depth experience with very large agile product development and enterprise transformations, and like me, has worked in large embedded systems.
It explores concrete practices for large-scale lean product development or agile development with large-scale Scrum, including requirements, contracts, architecture and design, agile offshore development, large-scale multisite development, coordination, and planning multi-hundred-person product group development, and more. Table of Contents, Sample Chapters, ...
Collaboration Over Contracts in Agile “Offshore” Outsourced Development.
A popular introduction to agile and iterative methods. It introduces the big ideas of iterative and evolutionary development, agile methods, and a variety of agile and of purely iterative methods: Scrum, XP, UP, and Evo.
40 pages on skillful modeling with use cases. Some extremists declare that applying use cases is a bad practice. Nonsense! Applied skillfully and with agility use cases can be of great value.
Reflecting our work over recent years, this text explores scaling lean and agile development with Large-Scale Scrum. It was written with my co-author Bas Vodde, who has long and in-depth experience with very large agile product development and enterprise transformations, and like me, has worked in large embedded systems.
This books explores the foundation for a successful enterprise transformation to large-scale lean or agile product development: the thinking tools and organizational redesign tools necessary to lay the foundation for new practices. Without leadership (and others) that understand and institute these foundational elements, it is difficult to succeed with applying the practices. Table of Contents, Sample Chapters, ...
My current focus is scaling lean and agile methods for a single product group of 200 to 2000 people (Asia, Europe & NA—usually multisite including offshore), and large (10,000+ people) enterprise transformations to lean and agile methods. Collecting these as Large-Scale Scrum. Much of my work is in large embedded systems (telecomm, control systems, printers, ...), investment banking, and energy and exploration industries.
videos of QConkeynote and interview, on very large scale product development with Scrum.
After my QCon keynote in London, wrote a short InfoQ article on practices for scaling agile design, that includes a free download of the Design & Architecture chapter from our Practices for Scaling book