Agile

Avoiding False Dichotomy: “If We Are Agile, We Are Not CMMI Compliant”.

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“Our organization is trying to become more agile and we are using agile frameworks to deliver products to our customers. Therefore, it is going to be practically impossible for us to meet CMMI requirements”. – WRONG! If your organization wants to become Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) compliant because of direct government mandates or because … Read more

Gradual Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR)

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Related reading: Following FTAM By Expanding DoD VS. Becoming A Hostage To Traditional Org Structure.   Maturity of Definition of Done (DoD) has been the area of focus for many teams and organizations. Expansion (maturation) of DoD can be aligned with a Feature Team Adoption Map (FTAM), and it is covered on this page.  In … Read more

Important Organizational Enablers of Deep Systemic Improvements (e.g. LeSS Adoption)

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Many people are familiar with the complete picture of Large Scale (LeSS) that describes LeSS Principles, Rules, Guides and Experiments. This graphic illustrates how the above are all related to each other, and is referred to as “LeSS onion”, because its concentric circles. In sum, there are ten LeSS Principles, based on which, there are … Read more