Agile Management by David Anderson

CMMI and Agile paper causing a stir

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The new Technical Note from the SEI which I co-authored has been causing a stir. My friend Adail Retamal has translated some of the commentary from Brazilian discussion lists. I'm excited to see so much debate on this and read these wonderfully creative...(read more)

Personal Hedgehog Revisited

Agile Management Blog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

[First pusblished at moduscooperandi.com] More than 4 years ago, I riffed off Jim Collins idea of a corporate Hedgehog Concept, with this blog post on Personal Hedgehog Concept . It's proven to be one of the most popular blog pages on AgileManagement...(read more)

The Tactical Transition

Agile Management Blog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

[First published at moduscooperandi.com in a slightly different form] At David J Anderson & Associates our strategy is to help clients achieve long lasting, institutionalized, enterprise scale agile change. We help them to become what the SEI calls...(read more)

The Relevance of Level 4

Agile Management Blog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

[Over the summer, I wrote a number of blog posts for Modus Cooperandi. I'd like those posts to get a wider audience. Starting with this one about the relevance of level 4 organizational maturity...] CMMI Model Level 4 is often thought of like Nebraska...(read more)

Mon Nov 3rd - Bay Area APLN

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I'm going to reprising my key note from Brazil at the Bay Area APLN meeting in San Francisco on Monday night November 3rd. I hear that RSVPs have been strong already. If you'd like to come along, details are here . Technorati tag: David+Anderson...(read more)

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Kanban Flow and Cadence

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Karl Scotland has a good introductory article on how to do kanban for software engineering. Karl likes to use the catchy acronym KFC - Kanban, Flow & Cadence . Another useful addition to the body of knowledge on kanban. Thanks Karl! Technorati tag...(read more)

Zen class in Sao Paulo

Agile Management Blog — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Here are a few pictures from my 2 day Zen of Agile Management class in Sao Paulo this week. I'd like to thank Adail Munoz Retamal of Heptagon for organizing the event and hosting me in Sao Paulo. The class was a huge success and I hope to be back...(read more)

Practical article on implementing kanban

Agile Management Blog — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Eric Landes of Robert Bosch, one of the earliest adopters of kanban, and an enthusiastic member of the kanban Yahoo! group, has a pragmatic article on implementing kanban for software maintenance published at developer.com. "But how will limiting...(read more)

Focus on Organization Maturity (Not Appraisals)

Agile Management Blog — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I've been greatly encouraged by the feedback from my Agile 2008 Main Stage presentation . It was so fortunate that InfoQ chose to video it and make it available to a wider audience. I came across this reall detailed summary by Reinout van Rees. However...(read more)

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Agile Management Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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Changes #2: David J Anderson & Associates

Agile Management Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Today, I packed up my desk and books and moved out of the Modus Cooperandi office on Lake Union in Seattle. Going forward, my new business entity is David J. Anderson & Associates Inc.. This change may seem a little strange to many as the Modus Cooperandi...(read more)

Changes #1: Valtech Deal Ends

Agile Management Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The partnership deal between Modus Cooperandi Inc., and Valtech Inc., came to an end at the beginning of October. As a result I am no longer the Chief Process Scientist with Valtech. I don't want to disclose too many details publicly but it seems...(read more)

Follow me on Twitter

Agile Management Blog — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I'm late to the Twitter party - embarrassing for a guy with a business that claims (at least in part) to be consulting in the social media space. So if you tweet, you can now follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/agilemanager . Technorati tag: David...(read more)

Lead Well and Prosper

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

For ages, Nick McCormick 's little book on leadership, Lead Well and Prosper has been lying on my desk waiting for me to blog about it. I've moved offices. The first copy got lost. He had to send me another one. :-S But finally I'm managing...(read more)

Zen of Agile Management, North America, November 2008

Agile Management Blog — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I'll be repeating my one-day Zen of Agile Management workshop from QCon in London this past March, at Agile Practices in Orlando Florida on November 10th and again the following week at QCon in San Francisco on Tuesday November 18th . In both locations...(read more)

Zen of Agile Management in Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 2008

Agile Management Blog — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I'm bringing my Zen of Agile Management workshop/class to Sao Paulo Brazil this October. This class has been universally popular since I first introduced it at VSLive in Orlando, February 2006. It's in a 2-day format so the pace will be easier...(read more)

An Alternative Recipe for Success

Agile Management Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

My long time colleague and collaborator Daniel Vacanti does not blog. He occasionally writes stuff down and some of that might even get published one day, but he doesn't blog. So I'm going to blog for him today... Dan has his own alternative to...(read more)

Prioritizing and Planning for Market Risk

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Three years ago this week, I introduced a scheme for prioritizing requirements that was aligned with strategic planning and market segmentation and brought some rigor and objectivity to the art of assigning a priority to requirements. Initially, the scheme...(read more)

A Real World Example of Analyzing Market Risk-based Prioritization

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A post in the Agile Management Yahoo! group has prompted me to make this second post with an example to elaborate on prioritizing and planning for market risk . Steven Gordon wrote: This approach seems oversimplified to me. In particular, I challenge...(read more)

What are the right conditions for agile adoption?

Agile Management Blog — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

For several years, I've been promoting the notion that " Trust is the essence of agile ." Others like Clarke Ching have joined that chorus [See Carnival of Trust ]. This year, I've been articulating that the statement "[We value...(read more)

Kanban Implementation in Brazil

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It's official! There are kanban implementations on at least 4 continents now. Alisson Vale has written up [in portugese] his experience implementing kanban at Phidelis in Brazil. This seems like a very complete implementation. Alisson has a physical...(read more)

Blogging again

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Regular subscribers will have noticed that I'm blogging again! :-D Agilemanagement.net has been in transition. We've moved it over to be hosted with the Modus Cooperandi servers and web site. Since, its inception, agilemanagement.net was hosted...(read more)

Retrospectives considered waste when...?

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I wanted to return to Dave Laribee's post from the weekend, Introducing Kanban at Xclaim . I'd like to bring your attention to discussion below involving Derik Whittaker, Steven Harman, and Dave concerning retrospectives. For a long time I've...(read more)

Future Directions for Agile (from Agile 2008)

Agile Management Blog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

My main stage speech from Agile 2008 is available on InfoQ. It a 90 minute video with the powerpoint slides simultaneously displayed. This talk was aimed at the Agile community and pulled no punches about what I see as the failings within the Agile Alliance...(read more)