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 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 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 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 5, 2019
- 6 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: #NoEstimates
The idea behind #noestimates is that one of the biggest problems that many folks in the agile community face is the estimation process....
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Tom Perry
- Mar 19, 2019
- 2 min
Overlapping Behavior
Examples of redundant structures that overlap and support each other can be found everywhere in nature. Examples include: human vertebra,...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 13, 2019
- 2 min
#NotMyAgile
Recently, there has been a series of tweets with the hashtag #NotMyAgile. They are usually a statement or example of some dysfunction in...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 7, 2019
- 1 min
Agile Risk and the Business Landscape
Simon Wardley does a marvelous job of highlighting some of the essential requirements for understanding and defining strategy. There are...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 5, 2019
- 3 min
The future of Agile
I’ve been fortunate to have been a part of the agile community for many years now. And in that time I’ve seen a lot of things change. In...
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Tom Perry
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
Risk Mapping
Recently I’ve been reading Simon Wardley’s book on strategy mapping. I’m finding it to be some of the best writing on strategy that I’ve...
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