CIO WaterCooler | John Coleman | Activity https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/members/john-coleman/activity/ Activity feed for John Coleman. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:07:06 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.4.4 en-GB 30 hourly 2 033d49d8834d5253a386d9630d76fe5c John Coleman posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=309953 Wed, 20 Apr 2022 08:27:50 +0100 0 562377bbe1d462ccf9473fbf9538ee26 John Coleman posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=309909 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:30:51 +0000 0 c948f96a5dce9fdc3309bdb1b53b37f2 John Coleman posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=308240 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:32:39 +0100
How to use Evidence-Based Management and Scrum (Part 1): Bridging EBM goals with the Scrum Guide

Scrum.org developed its Evidence-Based Management (EBM) practices placing a strong emphasis on goals and experimentation. EBM’s key value areas are also important, but the critical focus…

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​So what is organizational agility?

Have you ever noticed people keep talking about things, but they’ve not aligned with what their words mean? I have seen agility measured as the…

]]> 0 f53fcfa677516d0246aa92e3b70e32f6 John Coleman posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=296748 Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:15:25 +0000 ##This article discusses the growth of agility for customer-facing products with 3+ teams, probably tens of teams with Nexus and/or LeSS.
Background:
In this article, I compare and contrast the more advanced […]

]]> 0 6d8b9ff32ce34ac36e3aea339c3ad415 John Coleman posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=296587 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:00:34 +0100 I wrote recently about why you think your organization wants agility. I also wrote about comparing the Kanbans (including Toyota Kanban), Kanbaning your Scrum, and I started a series on comparing the patterns (or […]

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Retrospectives with system modelling

I would argue that sometimes, at retrospectives maybe the best thing we can do is to try to better understand “the system”, and for that system modelling seems like a very good approach to me.

]]> 0 041c4a86926209f3c2250ce9940d288e John Coleman posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=296224 Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:00:35 +0100 Consider this blog post as background for future posts. It has a lot of detail, and you might need to carve out some time, grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable before reading this.

Mirror mirror […]

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Kanbaning your Scrum (2 of 3)

John Coleman continues to optimize work the flow of the delivery of customer value, this time with more complicated work.

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Kanbaning your Scrum (3 of 3)

John Coleman uses Toyota Kata to add horse-power to flow based retrospectives or service delivery reviews.

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Kanbaning your Scrum

Bottom line – WiP limits must be applied to improve flow of the delivery of value. It’s a key lever to improve the performance of Scrum Teams. Here we prove it. Part 1 of 3…

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Can you help produce a shortlist for agendas, values, principles and practices for growing good sustainable agility?

….At the risk of anchoring, and in my outrageous attempt to appeal to your potential need to challenge these items with other better items, here are the trends at the time of writing from a small sample :

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50 light-bulb moments at LeSS training by Bas Vodde

In many ways, the journey to Large Scale Scrum is as colossal as the scale of the Golden Gate Bridge. My 2017 goal is to become…

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