Most organizations get faster and still don’t learn faster because production speed isn’t learning speed.

Today I’m publishing the Work–Feedback Loop (v1.0) - a diagnostic lens for organizational learning capability.

It asks one question: Can real-world effects change future work fast and safely?

Quick check: Which state best describes your system right now — Actionism, Frustration, Stagnation, or Learning?

https://no-bullshit-agile.com/wfl/

#OrganizationalLearning #SystemsThinking #Agile

#Agile

»10 Prompt Engineering Techniques With A Super Simple Explanation« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/10-prompt-engineering-techniques-super-simple-explanation #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Почему 99,5% проектов проваливают оценку — и какие стратегии я перепробовал за годы руководства разработкой

Исследование 16 000 проектов показало: только 0,5% укладываются в бюджет, сроки и дают ожидаемый результат. Разбираю главные боли оценки проектов в аутсорсе.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1002840/

#аутсорсинг #оценка_проектов #управление_разработкой #ITаутсорсинг #планирование_проектов #agile #ITрынок_России #бизнесаналитика #планирование_сроков

The March meeting of Okanagan Agile will be earlier in the month than usual as we try to avoid March Break and Easter. If you’re near #Kelowna BC Canada and interested in discussing or learning about #agile then join us on March 12. Full details at https://okanaganagile.com

Stop optimising for ticket creation.
Start optimising for customer outcomes.

Radical idea, I know.
#Agile #BuildWhatMatters #Value

»10X ORG - A manager's guide to elevating business performance with people and AI. « https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/10x-org-managers-guide-elevating-business-performance-people-and-ai #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Assume Positive Intent« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/assume-positive-intent #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Becoming a Scrum Trainer – My Path and 3 Tips on What Really Matters« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/becoming-scrum-trainer-my-path-and-3-tips-what-really-matters #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

If you’re asking “how can we get more agile?”, you’re already in method-land.

The more useful question is: How fast does reality change what we do next?

That is the Work–Feedback Loop: work creates an effect, the effect becomes feedback, feedback changes decisions, decisions change future work

I’ve published the model and the PDF under CC BY-SA 4.0 here: https://no-bullshit-agile.com/wfl/

If you take a look: where does your loop slow down most, signal, decision, or deployment?

#agile #WorkFeedbackLoop

Books on problem-solving using Agile, Lean, Complexity, and more by Tom.perry@acm.org, Jamie Flinchbaugh, Luca Minudel, Jeremy Berriault The Evolutionary Agilist™, Paul Rayner, and Ben Linders is the featured bundle on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/b/problem-solving

#BusinessAndManagement #Software #Agile #Lean #ProductManagement #Leadership #SocialScience #Science #OrganizationalPsychology #Teamwork #AgileEnterprise #BusinessItAlignment #QualityManagement

»Embracing AI-assisted software product development as an individual, a team, an organization« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/embracing-ai-assisted-software-product-development-individual-team-organization #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Ein agiles Ritual kann den falschen Engpass optimieren. Der liegt oft nicht in der Lieferung, sondern zwischen Signal und Konsequenz.

Feedback hat ein Gültigkeitsfenster: Wenn ihr erst reagiert, nachdem das Signal strukturell entwertet ist, lernt ihr formal aus der Realität, praktisch aber aus der Vergangenheit.

Ein Thread 🧵

Mehr dazu im Work–Feedback Loop: https://no-bullshit-agile.de/wfl/

#WorkFeedbackLoop #Agile

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»Why Agile Practitioners Should Be Optimistic for 2026 (Part 1)« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-agile-practitioners-should-be-optimistic-2026-part-1 #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»When AI Breaks Your Processes, Not Your People: Why Your Organization Can't Evolve Even When It Sees the Problem Coming« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/when-ai-breaks-your-processes-not-your-people-why-your-organization-cant-evolve-even-when-it-sees-problem-coming #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Agile / PMO (or other transformation) leaders are increasingly positioned within close proximity to the CEO, signaling a shift in their strategic importance. See https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24955.99364 for details. #Agile #ProjectManagement #PMO

Clarity Was Always the Bottleneck

https://open.substack.com/pub/bryanfinster/p/clarity-was-always-the-bottleneck

The article ends with

> The bottleneck is clarity. It always was. The answer is not a requirements document. The answer is a practice that continuously creates and validates shared understanding across the entire team. [...]

Thank you Bryan Finster. This resonates so strongly. As does most of the article, but the end really resonates.

#ai #softwaredevelopment #agile #clarity

Most “improve our Scrum” conversations start in the wrong place.

Scrum and Kanban are ways to organize work. Useful, but they are not the system. The system is the feedback loop between what you do and what reality does in response.

The Work–Feedback Loop asks a simple question: how quickly does reality change what you do next?

https://no-bullshit-agile.com/wfl/

A thread 🧵

#Agile #Scrum #Kanban #ProductManagement

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»The Scrum Master’s AI Start Checklist« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-masters-ai-start-checklist #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Your team is “agile” but the org isn’t? If you are in such situation I call that disconnected agility.

Why it happens is what the Work–Feedback Loop v1.0 makes visible.

https://no-bullshit-agile.com/wfl/

#agile #dev #orgdesign

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Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter 471 - Week Ending February 20, 2026

https://zc.vg/Ci5Qs?m=0

#dewdrop #newsletter #aspnetcore #css #azure #javascript #xaml #windowsdev #cpp #csharp #dotnet #mcp #ai #devops #agile #IoT #appdev #unoplatform #m365 #podcasts #data #sqlserver #powershell

Целительные хлопоты: как измерить температуру проекта

Большинство методик управления проектами отвечают на вопрос «что делать», но значительно хуже — на вопрос «в каком состоянии находится проект прямо сейчас». Мы измеряем сроки, бюджеты, проценты готовности, количество выполненных задач — и при этом нередко упускаем момент, когда проект перестаёт быть управляемым, хотя формально всё ещё «идёт по плану». Проблема в том, что управление обычно рассматривается как последовательность действий: поставить задачу, выполнить, проверить, скорректировать. Такой взгляд удобен, но он скрывает главное — проект развивается не по шагам, а по состояниям. Между «всё под контролем» и «проект провален» лежит широкий спектр промежуточных состояний. Именно в них и накапливается риск. В этой статье предлагается посмотреть на управление задачами под другим углом — не как на контроль выполнения, а как на работу с пространством возможных состояний, в которых может находиться задача. В таком подходе неопределённость становится не побочным эффектом, а центральной характеристикой процесса, а управление — способом перераспределять её так, чтобы цель оставалась достижимой. Тепловая модель проекта

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1001588/

#управление_проектами #agile #scrum #менеджмент #менеджмент_проектов #организация_процессов #организация_разработки #организация_рабочего_процесса #организация_работы_комманды

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»The “and” that makes Scrum work« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/and-makes-scrum-work #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»How Async Scrum Teams Self-Manage Without Daily Scrums« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/how-async-scrum-teams-self-manage-without-daily-scrums #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Case Study: When Agile Meets Neurodivergence« https://agilealliance.org/case-study-when-agile-meets-neurodivergence/ #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Leadership: From Reactivity to Aligned Action« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/leadership-reactivity-aligned-action #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»From Chaos to Control, Part 1 - Chaos« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/chaos-control-part-1-chaos #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

Today I got to use my Flow Physics page in a real meeting — and it did exactly what I built it for: make “flow” tangible.

Instead of debating opinions, we walked through interactive examples (WIP, bottlenecks, Little’s Law, resource vs. flow efficiency) and the system basically explained itself.

If you ever need a fast, visual way to align people on delivery flow, here it is:

https://no-bullshit-agile.de/wip/

#Flow #Kanban #Lean #SystemsThinking #Agile #SoftwareDelivery

Организация производства Информационных систем. Часть 6. Разработка. 6.2. Имплементация проектного решения

Начало этапа имплементации подразумевает переход от согласованного проектного решения и планов-графиков его воплощения, к практической реализации посредством разработки, настройки инфраструктуры и поэтапного создания функциональности продукта. Обычно для команды на данном этапе стоят следующие вызовы:

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1001426/

#производство #управление_разработкой #управление_командой_разработки #продуктовая_разработка #организация_труда #инфраструктура_бизнеса #инфраструктура_itкомпании #rup #agile #методологии_разработки

Is #Agile dead - or evolving for #AI collaboration?

⇨ Steve Jones (Capgemini) argues that human-centric principles don’t align with AI-native development.

⇨ Kent Beck suggests “augmented coding,” while AWS proposes shifting from sprint planning to Intent Design.

⇨ The reality? Forrester reports that 95% of organizations still rely on Agile.

So - does AI make the Agile Manifesto obsolete, or is Agile simply evolving for the agentic era?

Learn more via InfoQ ⇨ https://bit.ly/4rXh6ir

#AgileManifesto

»Der A3-Handoff-Canvas: Sechs Fragen zum Verständnis der Delegierung von KI-Aufgaben 🇩🇪« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/der-a3-handoff-canvas-sechs-fragen-zum-verstandnis-der-delegierung-von-ki-aufgaben #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

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Participants with high work engagement stay alert in virtual settings but those less engaged experience more passive fatigue (drowsiness & mental “drift”) #Agile #Meetings #Virtual

»[VLOG] The Why and What of the PSM-AI Essentials Course, Explained« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/vlog-why-and-what-psm-ai-essentials-course-explained-0 #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Scrum Master as the AI Catalyst« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/scrum-master-ai-catalyst #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

If it isn't an anarcho-syndicalist system, then it isn't #agile

If it isn't anarcho-communism then it isn't #FreeSoftware

(I'd actually be quite pleased with picking apart what kinds of anarchism are hinted at in self organising teams from agile and not hoarding, but openly sharing from Free Software. What am I missing?)

@RosannaSibora
i use "refinement" if the team has a special event for that. i also see it just as a "refining" action during other events.

@scrumschau @stereo @micheal
@triploidtree

#agile #scrum
@agile

»Ethical Dilemmas« https://bobgalen.substack.com/p/ethical-dilemmas #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum

»Why AI Won't Replace a Good Scrum Master« https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/why-ai-wont-replace-good-scrum-master #Agilist.in #Agile #Change #Lean #Kanban #Scrum