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…3 min read·Jan 29, 2024----
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…2 min read·Jan 19, 2024--1--1
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…2 min read·Oct 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…3 min read·Oct 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:3 min read·Aug 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…3 min read·Aug 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.3 min read·Aug 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…3 min read·Aug 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…2 min read·Jul 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…3 min read·Jul 18, 2023----