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Don’t use Story Points, use Value Points instead

There is a large portion of those who work in Agile, who do not like nor want to use story points to measure the ‘size’ of a team’s work…

Jan 29

Don’t use Story Points, use Value Points instead

Jan 29

Value and Importance Are NOT the Same Thing

In large organizations with multiple competing priorities from business leaders that are focused on being and staying competitive, they…

Jan 19

Value and Importance Are NOT the Same Thing

Jan 19

Took a Pause in Writing

To those of you that follow me I took a bit of a pause last month while I worked on my QValue Whitepaper, which I will be releasing this…

Oct 5, 2023

Oct 5, 2023

Empowering Your People and T

Agile talks heavily about empowering people, yet, as usual, we haven’t really provided any way to establish how to do that. I’ve spoken…

Oct 5, 2023

Empowering Your People and T

Oct 5, 2023

The 4-Quadrants of Learning and Mastery

When learning something new we need 4 things to exist to have any hope of being successful:

Aug 30, 2023

The 4-Quadrants of Learning and Mastery

Aug 30, 2023

CEO — Your Technology is an investment and needs to be treated like one.

If you are the CEO of a large organization and you have moved to an Agile delivery you may have over 800 individual teams and with each…

Aug 22, 2023

CEO — Your Technology is an investment and needs to be treated like one.

Aug 22, 2023

Profitability isn’t a new concept, but it’s definitely new for Agile

Profit is the foundation of every successful business, without profit you can’t sustain your business.

Aug 17, 2023

Profitability isn’t a new concept, but it’s definitely new for Agile

Aug 17, 2023

Stop Overspending on Low-Value Product Development Ideas

One of the biggest challenges Executive Leadership faces is ensuring that business investments provide positive returns. And one of the…

Aug 5, 2023

Stop Overspending on Low-Value Product Development Ideas

Aug 5, 2023

The Organizational and Institutional fear of going fast

If you have worked in technology long enough you have experienced releases that failed spectacularly or had situations that happened due to…

Jul 20, 2023

The Organizational and Institutional fear of going fast

Jul 20, 2023

Follow the Money to Limit the Number Epics in your Portfolio

One of the downsides of using Epics to reflect work is that we end up with a proliferation of Epics, which makes it virtually impossible to…

Jul 18, 2023

Follow the Money to Limit the Number Epics in your Portfolio

Jul 18, 2023

Michael Connolly

Michael Connolly

Pragmatic Agilst who has led many organizations on their Agile Journey. Key areas of focus include Portfolio Mgt, Quality and DevOps/Automation

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