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Andrew Fuqua

Fondly and commonly known as an XP (eXtreme Programming) and Agile guru, Andrew is also an influencer in the world of enterprise transformation. His self-proclaimed passion is building great teams that build great software, with a focus on helping ISVs and IT organizations improve time to market, market responsiveness, predictability and quality. In his role as VP of products at ConnectALL, Andrew returned to his first love of being closely involved in product development. Andrew is an active contributor to the Agile community. He is an established speaker and influencer and is a published author in Gantthead, Agile Connection and Agile Journal. Andrew has 30 plus years of varied experience in consulting, management, product management and development. With a long history as an enterprise transformation expert, Andrew realizes the importance of transformation and how it is the first most critical activity to create the conditions for effective approaches to take hold and add value.

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Data and Tools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do

When developing software, many managers believe that data and tools will solve all their problems. If they just have enough data or the right data analysis tools, development and delivery become automated and decisions are made without human input. But in reality, humans are a necessary part of the process. There are a few pieces […]

Jul 6, 2020 · 3 min

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Don’t Tool Up a Broken Value Stream

A well-known failure mode for business process automation is to automate a broken process. The same goes for tooling up value stream management (VSM). If you have an overly complex value stream – immobilized with dependencies, a clumsy way to move work from ideation to engineering or disagreements over who has power over the plan […]

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Practical Advice on How to Use Lead Time

Many ALM tools and Value Stream Management platforms graph lead time, but few really tell you what to do about it, how to use it and why you shouldn’t use the average. In fact, so much of what is written on this subject is rather vague and hand wavy. Part of the reason is that […]

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