by James Wright | Nov 8, 2024 | Agile in Real Life, Scrum guidelines, Uncategorized
When I first took an Agile class many years ago, I was taught that the optimal team size was 7, plus or minus 2 — so anywhere between 5 and 9 members. Fast forward a few years, and the Scrum Guide adjusted this to: “the optimal team size is between 3 to 9 people.” The...
by James Wright | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Agile principles provide flexibility for business...
by James Wright | Aug 30, 2015 | Agile in Marketing, Agile in Real Life, Agile in Strategy, Agile Principles
If you ask a software developer, “What’s the most important thing in Scrum?” He will probably say without too much hesitation something like, “Regular delivery of working code.” That working code is delivered in a ‘ceremony’ called the Sprint Review. Each Sprint (a...
by James Wright | Sep 5, 2014 | Agile in Strategy
I first became acquainted the Matsushita (best pronounced Măt-sush-ta) companies back in 1996 when I negotiated a technology license with Matsushita Communications. Most people in America know these Japanese companies by the brand name, Panasonic. I didn’t know much...
by James Wright | Aug 15, 2014 | Agile in Logistics
The scrum people got a lot of things right. This methodology reinforces Agile principles to make teams more efficient (doing more in the same amount of time) and effective (doing more of the right things). The time-box implementation is very unnatural, but amazingly...
by James Wright | Jul 15, 2014 | Agile in Strategy
Over the first third of my career, I had a perfect record of great success in hiring new employees. I figured that either I was great at it or it was easy. The following third brought me mixture of outcomes. I sat back to review where I had done well and poorly in an...
by James Wright | Feb 8, 2014 | Agile in Real Life
I was the director of strategic business development at Iomega in the late 1990s. Among other things, I was the lead contract negotiator for big agreements. I spent most of that time doing license and associated agreements, but I also did M&A, purchase, joint...
by James Wright | Oct 27, 2013 | Agile in Marketing
I have created many guidelines, rules and useful concepts for myself and my marketing teams over the years. In this posting, I’ll list 4 useful tools that help me cut through the fat and make the best decisions. I have associated them with fingers to make them easy to...
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