Executives expect Agile results, but too few executives and managers realize the organization change necessary to support Agile results. Agile without …
Fast Start — Failure Demand
Fast start conversation: Demand for time comes from every angle. Critical evaluation looks at Failure Demand as a resource expectation. At …
Scrum Master as Scrum Maester, a game of thrones
A listen to the Scrum Guide update video with Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, and David West makes a case that I did …
Stand up to daily scrum
Successful Agile development is principles over practice. Many an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Agile roles assure people the difference between …
Projects, Personas, and Stakeholders – the slides
Projects have stakeholders, that much is clear, these pesky project stakeholders influence the project in both positive and negative ways. As a project …
Podcasts for modern design
The bright side of a one- to two-hour commute: I now bundle a set of podcasts on modern design to my commute …
User story, no requirement needed
Good design meets end-user need. Bad design wastes time and money. The difference is not about requirements. Requirements are your great, grandparent’s …
User Story Mapping by the book
All design, whether PowerPoint deck, website, software, product, operating model, or Thanksgiving dinner, is an effort to deliver experience. Experience can range …
An Agile example of Scrum by design
From startups to corporate leviathans, the business directive to be more Agile tends to ring hollow. Scrum is the most popular …
Francois du Toit, Francois du Toit, SVP Product Development, WEX
“I have worked with Toby, directly and indirectly since 2016 on business impacting programs for both Payments and Cloud. “For Payments, …
Top 10 blog posts for 2015, 5 to 1
Top blog posts from 2013, from number 5 to number 1, a follow-up from Top 10 blog posts for 2015, 10 to 6 …
Top 10 blog posts for 2015, 10 to 6
Closing out 2015, I look back at the year’s most viewed posts as a chance to reflect on blog topics, from …