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How the Traditional Contract Model Increases the Risk of Failure

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 […]

Post Agile – Outcome Generation

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 […]

Outcome Metrics – Measure What Matters

What do you currently measure? Most metrics efforts seem to focus on the throughput or output measures. Throughput measures tend to cover how fast you get through the work. Examples from Agile teams are things like ‘number of items completed’ or ‘total story points’ completed during an iteration. Lean teams might use cycle time, or […]