A few months ago, we hosted our first Evolve Beyond Meetup in London. We had a number of guest speakers, who each delivered a compact and illuminating talk (not more than 10 minutes each) on a variety of topics, but all based around lean and agile product design and development.
I’ve been reading up on the value of innovation, in preparation for the Value seminar by Tom Gilb in London this week. One question for Agile teams is how to innovate within the constant pressure of “Sprinting” and barely having time to draw breath.
Imagine an investment bank running with the following scenario: Manager: “Hi team, we are putting in place a new process for you to help us be more predictable and control our budget and schedules over the next year. By the end of December, we want you to hand in a plan that tells us: Which […]
In 2007 the UK Department for Communities and Local Government (the DCLG) entered into a contract with European Air and Defence Systems (EADS, now known as Cassidian) to deliver an IT system that would underpin the FiReControl project. The FiReControl project aimed to improve the UK Fire and Rescue Service by replacing 46 local control […]
I get asked “What’s next? Exactly what is ‘Post-Agile’ “? I then hear that Kanban or Lean Startup are the answers to all of our problems, along with the 200 or so new scaling Agile frameworks that have appeared on the market. There is a tendency to jump to solutions and answers before properly understanding […]