Michael ConnollyDon’t use Story Points, use Value Points insteadThere 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 29Jan 29
Michael ConnollyValue and Importance Are NOT the Same ThingIn large organizations with multiple competing priorities from business leaders that are focused on being and staying competitive, they…Jan 191Jan 191
Michael ConnollyTook a Pause in WritingTo 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, 2023Oct 5, 2023
Michael ConnollyEmpowering Your People and TAgile 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, 2023Oct 5, 2023
Michael ConnollyThe 4-Quadrants of Learning and MasteryWhen learning something new we need 4 things to exist to have any hope of being successful:Aug 30, 2023Aug 30, 2023
Michael ConnollyCEO — 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, 2023Aug 22, 2023
Michael ConnollyProfitability isn’t a new concept, but it’s definitely new for AgileProfit is the foundation of every successful business, without profit you can’t sustain your business.Aug 17, 2023Aug 17, 2023
Michael ConnollyStop Overspending on Low-Value Product Development IdeasOne of the biggest challenges Executive Leadership faces is ensuring that business investments provide positive returns. And one of the…Aug 5, 2023Aug 5, 2023
Michael ConnollyThe Organizational and Institutional fear of going fastIf you have worked in technology long enough you have experienced releases that failed spectacularly or had situations that happened due to…Jul 20, 2023Jul 20, 2023
Michael ConnollyFollow the Money to Limit the Number Epics in your PortfolioOne 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, 2023Jul 18, 2023