Author Archives: Haran Rasalingam

How to manage Epics across multiple channels?

This post is from sntio.com by Karen Deer. Most products these days have multiple touch points across various channels that all need to be implemented in tandem. For instance a registration flow may start with a physical product purchased in retail, … Continue reading

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Failing so you can win

This post is from tryingtokeepitagile.com by Lynn Grant. It has long been known in engineering circles that much can be learned from failure. Claude Albert Claremont, in his 1937 book on bridge building, “Spanning Space,” wrote: The history of engineering is really the … Continue reading

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The Science of ‘Paying It Forward’

This post is from mobile.nytimes.com by Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy. ONE morning in December of 2012, at the drive-through window of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a customer paid for her order and then picked up the … Continue reading

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Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility)

See also my post: “Live agile and dead Agile” by Haran Rasalingam. This post from pragdave.me by Dave Thomas echoes similar concerns to the ones that I have been voicing: Thirteen years ago, I was among seventeen middle-aged white guys who gathered … Continue reading

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Evidence Based Management

This post is from kenschwaber.wordpress.com by Ken Schwaber I’ve had many, many customer ask me how they are doing, how much better they are doing than a year ago. The entrance of SAFe, the IPO of Rally, and the flood of “just … Continue reading

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Employee Commitment: A Recipe for Peak Performance

This post is from  switchandshift.com by Frank Sonnenberg. For today’s employee, being part of something special and making a difference in the world is much more important than the rewards sought by yesterday’s “me” generation. Employees of this new breed want … Continue reading

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Kanban or Scrum? Know your constraints before you take the plunge

This post is from ambitiousmanager.com by Tom Sedge. Many people think that the answer to their problems is to pick an agile approach and use it to deliver their services. In doing this they frequently put the needs of service development … Continue reading

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Making Scrum SAFe

This post is from netobjectives.com by Al Shalloway. Two of the major market forces in last decade with the greatest impact on Organisations has been the emergence of the ‘Digital Enterprise’ and ‘Organisational Agility’.  If used smartly, both can give significant … Continue reading

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The safe way to lean software developement

This post is from scaledagileframework.com by Colin O Neill ,Gillian Clark and Gareth Evans. There are mistakes in the paragraph, please check carefully. I know you cannot copy and paste this page, but I have taken the text from the source … Continue reading

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Live agile and dead Agile

by Haran Rasalingam Agile is dead! Long live agile! ALERT: Bold assertion: The problem with the Agile movement is that it has been around too long. The capital “A” of “Agile” has institutionalised it. It has been appropriated and standardised … Continue reading

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