What are the disadvantages of agile and Scrum? I’ve been asked this question a few times over the last few years and frankly I’ve not had a good response. Those who asked me the question say that you can only be objective about an approach if you can name its advantages and disadvantages. And while I can certainly name the benefits of agile, I struggle to come up with disadvantages. This blog is an attempt to provide a good answer to that question. And I’ve invited help from some agile experts and fellow coaches to create a better answer than I could alone. What My Fellow Agile Coaches Say ar ..read more

BLUF: This post outlines 10 Ways You Can Help Your Agile Initiative Succeed whether that is adopting Kanban or Scrum or taking on an enterprise agile transformation.  I recently wrote a post about the 10 ways that Agile Transformations will fail. The article, along with a sharp-looking infographic, was well received. But it also sounded fairly negative.  It turns out that people don’t want to hear about failures, they want to learn how to make agile succeed! So let’s turn that frown upside down! This post is the countermeasure to that transformation failure post. In this post, we w ..read more

For several years now I’ve been including a glossary of Agile Terms as a handout in my classes. I decided this year to invest in updating the list to make it current and clean up the appearance. An Agile Cheat Sheet of Terms As a result, we now have a beautiful and powerful tool that provides the meaning of over 200 commonly used agile terms. This Agile Cheat Sheet is particularly useful for people who are new to agile or who want to master agile ways of working. And best of all – our new Agile Cheat Sheet is free to download and use. There are a lot of terms! We had to whittle down our origi ..read more

Q: How can we use the Disciplined Agile Tool Kit to help our agile team succeed sooner? To answer this question easily, I could simply tell you to take a Disciplined Agile training course. But that would be little of value to you reading this right now. So let me walk you through an example of how you can leverage the Disciplined Agile Tool Kit to help you and your team improve your agile ways of working. Understanding the Disciplined Agile Tool Kit First, anyone can use the Disciplined Agile (DA) Tool Kit, whether they have no agile experience or have many years of experience practicing agil ..read more