As anyone who has been involved in software development knows, estimation is often more art than science.While there are many different approaches to estimation, they can generally be classified into […]
Agile Planning is Like a Round of Golf
You’re playing golf with your friends. You’re standing in the tee box and it’s your turn to drive. You’re looking down the fairway and you see the green in the […]
Stable Teams Can Be a Key Success Factor
Disruption can be a powerful force and can effect rapid change for a paralyzed team. However, disruption is a double-edged sword and the preference is to create an environment and support structure where a stable team can grow, learn, and thrive.
Screening Organizations as an Agile Candidate
A lot of Agile recruitment articles provide tips on the language and qualities that a good Agile candidate should use in their application. I want to flip that and help […]
Agile Corporate Culture
What does Agile corporate culture look like? Organizational culture is everywhere but it is not obviously seen. We can describe organizational culture in terms of tangible and intangible elements. Tangibles […]
An Agile Leader Cultivates Agility
The rules of leadership have changed. If you want compliance, then traditional management approaches may be effective. However, in today’s digital revolution where knowledge workers are the key to value […]
The ‘Everybody is an Expert’ Fallacy (Confirmation Bias is Real)
Confirmation bias is to leverage and promote certain information to confirm your beliefs and hypotheses while paying less attention to contradictory information. In many cases ambiguous, unfounded or opinionated data […]
Iterative Delivery
This early article explains the most basic process element of most Agile methods: the iteration. When I wrote this, “flow” Agile methods such as Kanban didn’t exist. All Agile methods […]
Welcome to Virtual Learning
BERTEIG is going virtual. We acknowledge that the COVID-19 global pandemic continues to be a great deal of concern. Despite the challenging times, we are committed to providing world-class Agile […]
What to Do Before Implementing Agile
Many companies come to us to help them with implementing Agile. With the popularization of Agile “methods” from technology sectors, companies have sought these good practices in order to implement […]