John Gillespie

September 25, 2019

The Benefits of Integrating User Experience (UX) With Scrum

Does your firm exceed your customer’s expectations regularly? Is just meeting expectations good enough in your market?  Businesses pursuing an improved ability to deliver customer value […]
August 26, 2019

Why It Benefits Scrum Teams to Think Like a Millennial

Agile and Scrum can help virtually any organization, from small startup tech businesses with mostly young employees to well established Fortune 2,000 companies with a much […]
March 24, 2019

“Not Everything that can be counted…” (Cameron, 1963)

Have you heard the term “lamp post metric”? [i]  This is a measurement that is easy to gather and may even seem like common sense.   If […]
October 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

The Agile Manifesto statement of “Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation” is less than helpful when it comes to writing contracts for projects to be worked in […]
July 28, 2018

CapEx or OpEx through a Lean Lens

Does your Finance Department discourage Agile software development because it would all be charged to operational expense? I have yet to be involved in an Enterprise […]
June 27, 2018

ATDD, BDD, TDD … What’s in a name?

Is Behavior Driven Development(BDD) just another name for Test Driven Development (TDD)? Or Is Behavior Driven Development only Test Driven Development done right? Behavior Driven Development […]
November 1, 2017

The Best Laid Plans often go awry.

When Henry Ford designed his factories in 1913 to build the Model T, he reduced the time to assemble a car from over 12 hours to […]
October 13, 2017

Agile-ish is “Kind of…..not”

When an organization decides to embark on an Agile Transformation, the first question should be, “Why?”   What does leadership hope to achieve?  Will the chosen path […]
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