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Michael Connolly

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…

3 min readJan 29, 2024

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Don’t use Story Points, use Value Points instead

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Michael Connolly

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…

2 min readJan 19, 2024

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Value and Importance Are NOT the Same Thing

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Michael Connolly

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…

2 min readOct 5, 2023

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Michael Connolly

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…

3 min readOct 5, 2023

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Empowering Your People and T

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Michael Connolly

The 4-Quadrants of Learning and Mastery

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

3 min readAug 30, 2023

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The 4-Quadrants of Learning and Mastery

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Michael Connolly

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…

3 min readAug 22, 2023

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

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Michael Connolly

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.

3 min readAug 17, 2023

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

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Michael Connolly

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…

3 min readAug 5, 2023

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Stop Overspending on Low-Value Product Development Ideas

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Michael Connolly

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…

2 min readJul 20, 2023

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The Organizational and Institutional fear of going fast

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Michael Connolly

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…

3 min readJul 18, 2023

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Follow the Money to Limit the Number Epics in your Portfolio

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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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