I recently found myself at a Taylor Swift concert. Yes, that’s what happens when you have teenage children. But while listening to her song “Shake It Off,” I couldn’t help but be reminded of the importance of making sure that we shake up our product development environment and culture every once in a while. As […]
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How to Create Balance in Your Team with the Help of SCRUM and Taylor Swift
Our SCRUM Metrics
Here we are, rolling out SCRUM across our teams, having teams practice the process and deliver customer value. We needed to figure out a simple way to measure the effectiveness of our rollout. Measuring the effectiveness has two parts: Part 1 How effective were we in changing team behaviors, making our team members and product […]
Losing the Trees through the Forest
I have written a number of articles for this blog about our adoption of the SAFe framework for scaling Agile. However, it became obvious in late 2014 that we had a fundamental problem. No matter how well we did release planning, epic prioritization, or release trains, it wasn’t getting us where we need to go. […]
When to Use the Agile Release Train
[Editor’s note: This post about using the Agile Release Train is the third is a series of posts by Mike Adler chronicling the Constant Contact engineering organization’s journey of transitioning to the SAFe Framework.] As an organization that develops world-class SaaS software, we want to leverage the benefits of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes. […]