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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Tom Perry
- Aug 21, 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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Tom Perry
- Jun 12, 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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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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Tom Perry
- May 8, 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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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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Tom Perry
- Apr 29, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tom Perry
- Apr 11, 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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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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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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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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Tom Perry
- Apr 7, 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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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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