Agile Development at Relevance

The Unique Development Processes of Relevance video was submitted by Eric Hagan on the Agile Zone dzone page. I was impressed with the clarity of Justin’s explanations of the Agile process. He made it sound almost to easy.  

Relevance does agile consulting with their own unique process which mixes and matches many agile methodologies.  Their standard workflow involves 2-week iterations, daily stand-ups, and they pair on everything as much as possible (QA, programming, management, etc).  They also build in a small amount of time to experiment for every iteration, but each experiment must have metrics to see if it was beneficial.  Relevance also has "open source Fridays" where they take some time to work on open source or non-profit software.

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Lean in the Office and Service Sector

Drew Locher was my guest on the Business901 podcast and this is a transcription of our conversation that centered on applying Lean to the Office and Service sectors. Drew is currently Managing Director for Change Management Associates, a Shingo Prize winning author and the first Business901 Podcast returning guest.

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Insight on Performance

This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
www.theRSA.org.

Great insight on motivation and well worth the 10 minutes.

Dan Pink’s book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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