Agile – Co located teams vs Remote teams

One of the struggles when a Company, specially an International Company, aims to migrate to Agile, is to reorganize their team’s structure. Not only to reduce the team size, but to relocate all of them, is for sure, a huge challenge we all have to deal with, at the beginning of the Agile adoption. Let’s start by saying that, nothing is “stone written” on Agile framework so, I always suggest to use that flexibility to approach our current work strategy to the initial required Agile best practices, then adjust customs, by little, then convince them again and keep adjusting, till … Continue reading Agile – Co located teams vs Remote teams

“Is as Agile as the Waterfall project Budget allows it” – the day to day fight

When we hear managers to talk about introducing Agile to a new or existing project, the most exciting parts are to start the training, the best practices sharing, the new techniques to implement, the beautiful tools to practice. A new atmosphere starts to be felt, where the workload balance and the continuous improvement are now decisions to be negotiated with the actual operational team, or not? For most Organizations, at least the big ones, the adoption of this nice framework is just a merchandize strategy to keep them fashionably among their competitors, further beyond the true intentions of a mindset … Continue reading “Is as Agile as the Waterfall project Budget allows it” – the day to day fight