Yes, that is supposed to be the penny game in panel 3 😉 The original comic had “Our customers don’t even know we’re agile!” in the last panel. What I’d meant to convey was that I’ve seen too many agile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Should have called this “Projects in Progress limits”. Seeing as this is an “agile” comic, I might just do that 😉 The original idea was that the only agile aspect of the set-up is the way the team has to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve seen teams get way too caught up in the mechanics of a methodology or framework, to the point of forgetting why it was introduced in the first place. You’ve got to deliver – otherwise the rest becomes academic. One[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For those unfamiliar with another meaning of the word tool: “​offensive: an insulting word for a person who you dislike very much or who behaves very stupidly”. I wonder if that’s what the authors of the agile manifesto had in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The research for this was not pleasant to watch. I’m considering a “I’m a celebrity coach, get me out of here” strip!
Kanban is great – I coach it a lot. More than Scrum at the moment. But when I first started looking at Kanban, this was sort of my attitude towards it. There was prioritisation, limiting work, cadences, dailies, retros –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inspired by an idea from RB – he brought up how some people in the business seem to be more interested in putting letters after their names than actually getting the job done. And a cartoon was born. I suppose,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, yes. Management. The scourge of agility! However, the really was a case, where one of the managers thought that increasing velocity á la Jeff Sutherland’s “Twice the Work in Half the Time”, really was an agile principle. He believed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
