In this article, author Paulo Caroli shares three of the main reasons for delays in agile projects and presents a series of tips that will help you guide the estimation process for these projects using Lean Inception.
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Lean Inception
When to do a Lean Inception?
It is common for organisations or agile teams to have doubts about when to do a Lean Inception....
Initiative candidate for a Lean Inception
What happened before a lean inception? How do I know my initiative is a good candidate for a Lean Inception? I always receive such question. And I usually answer it based on the context of the person asking. Below you find a drawing I did to explain it...
Lean Inception case – project cancelled
Another Lean Inception case - project cancelled three weeks after the MVP release. The Lean Inception book readers and the people participating on the book training are always asking about cases and stories. So here it goes a short and nice story about a big success...
Which tools did I use on the remote Lean Inception?
I got quite a few emails asking which tool I used on the last remote Lean Inception I facilitated. So here it goes: E-mail: for sharing the meeting invite and the pre-inception information. At the end of each day, some notes were shared via e-mail. Zoom: for...
Remote Lean Inception during the pandemic period
I am an advocate for highly collaborative face-to-face workshops. For example, check the following text from my Lean Inception book: Don’t underestimate the value of face-to-face interaction. Innovative technologies, such as videoconferencing and online shared...
The Build-Measure-Learn cycle for Exploration and Exploitation
>> This text has been moved to a larger article on Minumim Viable Product On 1991, James shared his findings on the relation between the exploration of new possibilities and the exploitation of old certainties in organisational learning [1]. His main point is...
Lean Inception for a Dev
Please find below a few notes from a video chat about Lean Inception for a Dev with some of my colleagues form Thoughtworks. How do devs work out what should be in MVP and start an agile project as quickly as possible? Making sure there is a lean inception. Do not...







