Agile methods have been around since approximately the early 80’s; from RAD and JAD, to Spiral Development, Scrum and Extreme […]
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Agile Planning According to Arlen Bankston
LitheSpeed received a question from a student about an issue their company was facing during project planning. We believe this […]
Making Improvement Standard: Dynamic Agile Practices through Lean Standard Work
Presented by Arlen Bankston (2013) Making Improvement Standard: Dynamic Agile Practices through Lean Standard Work from LitheSpeed
Scaling Agile and Lean Teams: Small is Beautiful
Many years ago, I read E.F Schumacher’s book, Small is Beautiful. Schumacher proposed the idea of smallness within bigness as a decentralized, […]
Is Your CEO an Agilist?
A few days ago, I blogged about “monumental” agile adoption, and discussed about how large-scale adoption (not just large projects), […]
Mindmap: Challenges in implementing agile
I don’t have as much time as I’d like to (or had before) to browse the web and discover all […]
Self Organization Rules!
The concept of self organization for agile teams is frequently discussed, with one excellent take being this from my colleague […]
The Agile Balanced Scorecard
We recently published a nice article in the online journal “Projects@Work” on frameworks for Agile metrics. An excerpt is below. […]
Arlen Bankston: 5Q’s on Agile
Some time ago, I participated in the PM Boulevard’s 5Q’s on Agile series. Now, it’s my colleague Arlen Bankston’s turn. […]
Time for XP version 2.0?
When I first encountered with Agile methods several years ago, the fuss was all about eXtreme Programming. The XP community […]