Top 10 Posts of 2012
2012 was a busy year on the Rally Blogs! Check out this top ten list of our most popular posts that received thousands of views – an eclectic mix of topics including engineering code snippets,...
View ArticleThe Daily Standup ... or the Daily Canary?
The daily standup, long one of Agile’s trademark ceremonies, seems to have been coming under fire lately.Erik Meijer, in his provocative presentation at Reaktor Dev Day 2014, declared: “enough of the...
View ArticleThe Role of PI Objectives
Our coaching team is having a bit of an internal discussion about the role of PI (Program Increment) Objectives and their importance, and this debate has touched on the nature of Agile Release Trains...
View ArticleThe SAFe Program Portfolio: A Lean Perspective on Limits
In light of the discussion over at kanbandev about the feasibility of how SAFe’s WiP limiting approaches work at the portfolio level, there are few nuances that are important to understand. (I've...
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You Asked, the Agile Aficionados Answered
Getting onboard with Agile methods across your organization is no small task. To do it well requires knowledge, culture change, and practice — lots of practice — at all levels.Rally is fortunate to...
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Decisions in Progress and 20,000 Reasons You Should Care
At a large big room planning (BRP) event run by one of our customers recently, between 400 and 500 people spent two days planning their next 12 weeks of work. The stakes were high, as the health care...
View ArticleHow Scrum Created the Greatest Team in the World
The Scrum approach to delivery has produced the greatest team in the world. And the elements behind the team’s success are repeatable, meaning your team could be next in becoming the greatest team in...
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12 Failure Modes in Agile Transformation: Transition
Up to this point in this series on the 12 failure modes in agile transformation, I’ve covered topics around failure in leadership, failure in workflow and failure in congruency. These last three...
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Enterprise Tipping and the Rules of Three
Enterprise tipping is NOT the corporate version of cow tipping, although it is fun to play with the analogy. ;)Consider rewriting the following description of cow tipping (Wikipedia) replacing “cattle”...
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3 Simple Productivity Metrics for Agile or Waterfall
I want a number, a metric, that tells me how productive our teams are”challenged my former Head of IT, some years ago. Certainly, it’s a reasonable request to ask how productive a team (or a whole...
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