Why did Boeing’s development of the 737 MAX 8 effectively avoid Agile principles? Agile foundations are part of Boeing’s toolset. Boeing could have maintained a focus on quality and safety for the …
Does Your Team Need Agile Coaching?
If you or your team have invested any amount of time into understanding Agile or Scrum, you may have realized that learning what to do and actually doing it are far from the same thing. You certainly …
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Lessons from a 10-Year Long Product Backlog
Product Backlog Management Tools: When & Why? I am often asked, “What tool should we use for Scrum?” or “What tool would you recommend for managing a large Product Backlog?” Recently the Product …
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Lean thinking and speed of Boeing 737 Final Assembly
How long does it take to do the final assembly of a Boeing 737 and does Lean thinking matter? Final assembly includes wings, tail, wheels, engines, interiors, wiring, cockpit controls, and flight …
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How can a CEO make software development teams deliver more features, faster?
More Features, Faster. I recently provided some free advice on Linkedin about software development. A manager had recently implemented Scrum to improve their development process. While things are …
How Healthcare.gov could have saved billions of dollars and been delivered in 1/2 the time.
By September 2014 spending on the 15 state health insurance exchanges and healthcare.gov will climb to over $8 Billion dollars*. This huge expenditure for health insurance shopping sites could have …
