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There Is No Silver Bullet January 29th, 2012
Setting the Record Straight on Scrum and Agile January 25th, 2012
A Thanksgiving Blog November 25th, 2011
Impressions of LESS 2011 and thoughts on helping those new to Lean, Kanban or Agile November 11th, 2011
Notes on the “Non-Linear Birds of a Feather” at LESS2011 November 4th, 2011
Rocks in a Jar October 30th, 2011
The Top 10 (Or So) Things I Wish Everyone Knew about Agile October 19th, 2011
Saying “Eliminate Waste” Is Not Useful - Part 1 September 19th, 2011
The Importance of Mindsets - Part II September 18th, 2011
The Rationale for a Maximum Sprint Length of 30 Days August 29th, 2011
Why Lean-Kanban? August 26th, 2011
The Importance of Mindset July 26th, 2011
Kanban – An Integration of Deming, Ohno, TOC, Satir and Nonaka July 14th, 2011
Kanban in a Nutshell June 24th, 2011
Reflections on the SQE Better Software/Agile Development Practices Conferences June 14th, 2011
Questioning Questions June 2nd, 2011
The IT Racket and How Team-Centric Agile Methods Support It May 28th, 2011
LSSC11-Relationship between Assumptions, Risks and Flow (delay) May 8th, 2011
Lean Software and Systems Consortium 11 Day 0 May 2nd, 2011
The Lean-Kanban Manifesto May 1st, 2011
Bottom-Up? Top-Down? Optimize the Whole? – The Importance of Perspective April 3rd, 2011
Elephants in the Room of Agile March 26th, 2011
The Essential Ingredients of a Navigation System February 26th, 2011
My Thoughts On Snowbird 10 February 16th, 2011
Alan Shalloway Random Thoughts – Snowbird 10 February 11th, 2011
A Massive Transformation Begins with a Small Change February 9th, 2011
Why Technical Debt Matters February 4th, 2011
Big Change Up Front (BCUF) January 1st, 2011
An Agile Parable November 16th, 2010
Alan Shalloway Random Thoughts – Going Beyond Scrum November 11th, 2010
Where my passion comes from November 7th, 2010
The Case Against Minimalism November 5th, 2010
CAS 100, Lean 0 in ‘Complexity Vs Lean, the Big Showdown' October 25th, 2010
Yes Virginia, You Can Attribute Cause-and-Effect even in Complex Adaptive Systems October 16th, 2010
How Successful Pilots Often Actually Hurt an Organization October 3rd, 2010
Common Myths of Kanban September 26th, 2010
Why ‘Kanban’ Is the Perfect Name After All September 19th, 2010
A Quick Synopsis of Agile 2010 August 18th, 2010
Setting the Record Straight: I Love Scrum August 7th, 2010
Scrum is a Silver Mirror - sometimes July 20th, 2010
The Real Differences between Kanban and Scrum June 7th, 2010
It’s not just “Does it work?” Ask, “Is it right for me?” June 4th, 2010
David Anderson’s Kanban book and the myth of early adoption May 25th, 2010
Guest blog for The Agile Executive: Balancing Agile. April 24th, 2010
Our Models of the World May Not Be Right April 18th, 2010
A Walk Along the North Shore of Oahu as a Metaphor of Flow-Based Development April 12th, 2010
Is Lean Based on Deming? April 11th, 2010
Scrum and Kanban: Mother-In-Law or Coach - Chaos or Controlled Process Improvement April 10th, 2010
My List of Limitations of Scrum April 7th, 2010
Confessions of a Lean/Kanbaner Teaching a Scrum Course March 26th, 2010
5-Whys Applied to Lean Software Failures March 24th, 2010
How Understanding Helps Transitions March 8th, 2010
The Importance of Going Top-Down With Agile Requirements February 28th, 2010
Why a Kanban Board is a Value Stream Map but a Scrum Board Isn't - and What This Tells Us February 22nd, 2010
Scrumbutters to Scrumdamentalists - We're Mad as Hell and Aren't Going to Take it Anymore February 13th, 2010
How to Affect Change February 10th, 2010
Smart People, XP and Scrum – Is there a pattern? January 16th, 2010
There Are Better Alternatives to Scrum December 21st, 2009
The Need for Leadership in Scrum - Updated December 15th, 2009
Effective Software Development Without Suffering November 22nd, 2009
The 5 whys of Lean as an answer to the But of Scrum October 25th, 2009
Complex Adaptive Systems Redux October 18th, 2009
Learning to Manage What Matters – Not Always Intuitive October 11th, 2009
The Difference Between "Inspect and Adapt" and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) October 10th, 2009
Pragmatic Lean October 6th, 2009
Types of Processes - by Don Reinertsen October 6th, 2009
An Overview of Lean Software Development October 4th, 2009
The Dangers of Complex Adaptive Systems October 3rd, 2009
The Foundations of Lean (and Kanban) October 2nd, 2009
The Essence of Lean (and Kanban) September 30th, 2009
Comparing Scrum to Lean - Not Quite Apples to Oranges September 28th, 2009
Creativity, Art, Software and Process September 7th, 2009
Lean is more than a set of tools August 31st, 2009
Is Part of the Agile Community Acting Like the Waterfall Community of Old? July 15th, 2009
Differences in Beliefs Results in Differences in Approach July 5th, 2009
Kayaking: How Rationale Aids Experience July 2nd, 2009
Patterns are not always discovered June 28th, 2009
What is the difference between first generation Agile (XP/Scrum) and Lean/Kanban? May 31st, 2009
Let's be civil. If you don't like my message, discuss the message, not me. May 27th, 2009
Challenging Why (not if) Scrum Fails May 17th, 2009
Lean Kanban 2009 - Wow! May 11th, 2009
A Tale of Two Communities April 30th, 2009
Don’t do more with less, do less with more March 21st, 2009
Questioning Large Scrum Failure Rates March 15th, 2009
What's After Lean? February 28th, 2009
What Would You Want Someone to Know Before You Let Them Run Your Project? (informal) February 12th, 2009
Why Scrum Is Going the Way of XP and Why that’s a Good Thing February 8th, 2009
Why I Care About What Scrum Can and Cannot Do (informal) January 31st, 2009
The Strategy Template Pattern (informal) January 18th, 2009
Alan in Wonderland (informal) January 11th, 2009
Article blogs and informal blogs January 11th, 2009
Scrum and Lean December 7th, 2008
Waterfall, Lean and Manufacturing. Idle thoughts. November 28th, 2008
Reflections on two conferences, the Rise and Fall of Agile and Banned in Boston Redux November 19th, 2008
Is Scrum Failing Us? October 12th, 2008
An Overview of Lean-Agile Software Development October 3rd, 2008
Avoiding Coupling and Using Mocks (Webinar) September 23rd, 2008
Scrum and Management: Planning and Focusing September 23rd, 2008
The Importance of Paradigms (Beliefs) September 12th, 2008
Time for Agility to Truly Come of Age – Reflections on Agile 2008 August 15th, 2008
Why Test-Driven Development Really Isn’t Test First August 9th, 2008
Why Understanding Principles Is Essential in Coaching Others. August 1st, 2008
The Emperor Has No Clothes – The Need for Object-Oriented Training July 19th, 2008
What Does Speed Mean in Lean? July 19th, 2008
Announcing Scrum#: Scrum for the Enterprise July 17th, 2008
More Insights on Epics Vs Minimum Marketable Features July 5th, 2008
Rethinking the Practices of Scrum - or What Would Chris Alexander Say? June 13th, 2008
Further Reflections on Just-In-Time May 26th, 2008
Theory of Constraints and Lean April 29th, 2008
Why Looking Into Principles Is Important April 11th, 2008
A Reflection on Just-In-Time (JIT) April 9th, 2008
Is There a Fat Agile? April 8th, 2008
Post-Agile Scrum: The Need for Lean Software Development (webinar) March 14th, 2008
Praise for Scrum December 3rd, 2007
Why Lean Now? December 2nd, 2007
Why Not to Focus on a Company’s Culture September 27th, 2007
Reflections on Agile 2007 and next steps for Agile practitioners September 8th, 2007
Everything-on-it pizza, plain pizza, and Agile - What do they have in common? August 31st, 2007
Shalloway’s Law and Shalloway’s Principle August 30th, 2007
Using Deming to Define Standard Work in Programming August 29th, 2007
Reflections Before Agile 2007 and the Post Agile Movement August 8th, 2007
Lean-Agile and the Process-Innovation Pendulum July 29th, 2007
On Becoming A Coach June 29th, 2007
Improve your Team or Get a Silver Person? June 7th, 2007
Banned in Boston June 5th, 2007
Challenging why (not if) Scrum works May 24th, 2007
The Limits of Scrum April 18th, 2007
Resizing stories April 10th, 2007
Respect People April 1st, 2007
Books to Read if You Want to do Technical Coaching March 13th, 2007
Is "Chicken and Pigs" Counter-Productive? March 10th, 2007
A Comic Break July 9th, 2006
The Technical Aspects of Lean-Agile July 4th, 2006
People and Process Redux July 2nd, 2006
Agile Needs a Product Owner June 20th, 2006
Simplicity, The 5-Minute Rule and the Refactoring Effort Measure June 16th, 2006
Agile Project Management Is Good – But It’s Not Enough June 12th, 2006
People and process Continued June 5th, 2006
Only Degrade Your Code Intentionally June 3rd, 2006
Why Incremental Development is Useful June 3rd, 2006
People and Process June 1st, 2006
Lean-Agile Straight Talk: An overview of Lean-Agile Software Development May 29th, 2006

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