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    The Post-it Note is Dead
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Post-it Note is Dead

    Just for fun, I’m going to keep some of my post-it notes in a box to show to my grand-kids, “Back in my day, we used to use these things to
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    Things I Love about Agile Management Northwest
    Tom Perry
    • Aug 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    Things I Love about Agile Management Northwest

    Maybe it’s all the sticky notes and the heady odor of sharpies… The People – We attract an incredibly diverse audience. I’m not really...
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    Where Do You Keep Your Risks?
    Tom Perry
    • Jun 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    Where Do You Keep Your Risks?

    I’ve got a question: Where do you keep your risks? If you’re doing a project of any significance you have risks, right? That just comes...
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    Building Up and Tearing Down
    Tom Perry
    • May 27, 2019
    • 2 min

    Building Up and Tearing Down

    Recently I put on a public Leading SAFe training. This wasn’t your typical training, however. In collaboration with Ron Quartel, we...
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    Why Mixins?
    Tom Perry
    • May 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    Why Mixins?

    “Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you...
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    Custom Hot Rod
    Tom Perry
    • May 2, 2019
    • 4 min

    Custom Hot Rod

    One of my favorite cars that I ever owned was a 1967 Ford Falcon. I bought it for $600 when I was in college. It really wasn’t much of a...
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    My Personal Andon Cord
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    My Personal Andon Cord

    Have you heard of an Andon Cord? On the assembly line it’s that cord you yank on to stop the entire line when a problem is found. The...
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    A House for Hermit Crab
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    A House for Hermit Crab

    One of the wonderful things about being a parent is all of the children’s books you get to read. I never fail to be amazed at the...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: Open Space
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 22, 2019
    • 4 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: Open Space

    Overview One of the interesting things about SAFe is how it has evolved over the years. The story there is very interesting. More so than...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: Radical Co-Location
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 18, 2019
    • 3 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: Radical Co-Location

    Overview One of the biggest challenges that I often encounter on SAFe transformations is dispersed teams. A dispersed team is a team that...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: The Core Protocols
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 17, 2019
    • 3 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: The Core Protocols

    Overview For some organizations that prefer to have things really well explicitly defined or proscribed, especially if they are in a SAFe...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: Sociocracy
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 16, 2019
    • 4 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: Sociocracy

    Overview What if you are a big fan of sociocracy or holocracy? Can you combine those practices with SAFe? Right now, when you look at...
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    One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    One Step Back, Two Steps Forward

    I was confronted with a bit of a dilemma the other day. I was working out and reaching the limits of what I could lift. I could tell,...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: Role by Election
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 12, 2019
    • 3 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: Role by Election

    Overview Another modification to SAFe that we might make is role by election. Role by election is turning some of the role selection...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: No Prep PI Planning
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 12, 2019
    • 4 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: No Prep PI Planning

    Overview One of the issues that I’ve seen with doing big room planning (BRP) or Program Increment (PI) planning in SAFe is often people...
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    SAFe: The Prescriptive Mirror
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 3 min

    SAFe: The Prescriptive Mirror

    There are two attributes of SAFe that I think have really been instrumental to the success of SAFe as a framework. The first attribute is...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: #NoCoaching
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 9, 2019
    • 4 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: #NoCoaching

    Here’s a weird one: Today’s SAFe mix-in is called #NoCoaching (yes, I totally made that up, but hear me out). So one of the things that...
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    The Inside-Out PMO
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Inside-Out PMO

    Being in a project management office (PMO) is tough. In many ways it feels like the ultimate corporate middleman role. You report to the...
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    SAFe Mix-in’s: Dynamic Re-Teaming
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 6 min

    SAFe Mix-in’s: Dynamic Re-Teaming

    The next SAFe mix-in that I’d like to address is dynamic re-teaming. Dynamic re-teaming is a relatively radical agile innovation that...
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    SAFe Mix-ins: Mob Programming
    Tom Perry
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 5 min

    SAFe Mix-ins: Mob Programming

    I’d like to talk a little bit about SAFe mix-ins. SAFe mix-ins are innovative practices in the agile community that we can incorporate...
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