Coherence | Glossary

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Definition: 

Coherent comes from the Latin word “Cohaerent”, which means “sticking together”. Sticking together is exactly what we want team to do, team should stuck together in pursuit of a common goal for a project, to overcome challenges. 

Many factors work against creating coherence. Teams are distributed; language, culture, physical separation, time zone differences are just a few. Because of these factors it is important for members of these teams to consciously strive to create coherence. The collaborative nature of Agile projects has exposed team members to an opportunity to experience coherence and working towards shared goals, shared leadership, trust, respect which evolves new practices. People support what they create, act most responsibly,  converse to discover shared meaning, expect leadership. Humans can handle anything as long as they are together.

Further Reading

Book: SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn

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Overview

In 2012, Author conducted a Boardwalk at a client in the United States. There were 15 individual teams, each of which had its own individually designed boards. Each board had a unique value stream, work item types, policies, and methods for judging completeness and quality. Both management and the teams were frustrated because they hadn’t yet found a board design that worked for the entire company. They were looking for standardization.

However, each of these boards were, in some way, optimized for each individual team. Each team had its own context and these boards related specifically to that context. Each team was also actively improving their boards on a regular basis – meaning that optimization was continuing. This white paper contrasts many of these boards, showing the differences in design of each board and the ramifications of those variations.

Published In

2013

Author

Jim Benson