Is Scrum Agile and is Agile Scrum?
2 minutes read (drawing by Alexander) The short version: yes and no! Scrum is Agile but Agile is not (only) Scrum. Future Fit Organizations Organizations want to become flexible and Agile or as we...
View ArticleImproving a Team’s Collective Intelligence. Feedback Please!
It seems all over nowadays. Teams do it, peers do it, managers do it. Feedback here, feedback there, feedback everywhere. Feedback seems here to stay. Why? Because it makes people stronger. They learn...
View ArticleAgile Toolkit
Pull coaching Traditional Agile Coaching goes like this: we take a look at what you are doing and we advise you what we think is a good next step in your growth and Agile Maturity. These next steps...
View ArticlePhysical and Digital tools for Scrum Masters and their teams
About 40 people gathered at the nlScrum meetup dedicated to physical and digital tools for the agile workspace. Tools that help developers, coaches and trainers to survive in the toughest environments....
View ArticleScaling Scrum to the limit
You’re likely to have been asked the question: “we need to go faster, how many more people do we need?” Most people naturally understand that just adding a random number of people isn’t likely to make...
View ArticleUse Mob Programming to maximize your learning
In every Scrum.org Professional Scrum Development class, we touch upon both technical and collaboration practices to help improve the development teams explore new options. In a recent class, we had...
View ArticleMore Physical and Digital tools for Scrum Masters and their teams
A couple of months ago I blogged about some of the tools and toys that live in the trunk of my car. I take these along everywhere I teach and coach. Since posting, people have suggested additional...
View ArticleShut the door and listen from outside
At a certain point, you start to finish each other’s statements. Teams that have been together for a while can breed a sort of shorthand in their communication. This has a lot of upsides, but it can...
View ArticleAgile Chef
Agile Chef As a real ‘Foody’ I love to spend hours in the kitchen and experimenting. I also watch a lot of TV shows and documentaries about food. The other day I was watching an episode on Michelin...
View ArticleFive quality patterns in Agile development
In this blog series, I’ll discuss five quality patterns in Agile development to deliver the right software with great quality. For years now companies have been adopting Agile ways of working and...
View ArticleMulti products Scrum teams, how do you deal with that?
Multi Products Scrum teams are in reality observed often. One team serving different stakeholders and customer segments. Both would like to use the same people to work on their improvements. In most...
View ArticleFocus on what was “Done” during Sprint Review
As Scrum Trainer I get to meet a lot of teams and hear of many different ways to do Scrum. Most are valid ways, yet some seem more aligned with the values of Scrum or the purpose of the specific Scrum...
View ArticleEpic Focus: Measure your way to a better time to market
There are several recurring wishes our clients bring to us, one of which is speed, to improve time to market. However, there is no dial that we can turn to deliver value faster. Software teams are not...
View ArticlePre-mortems, steering clear of the rocks.
Are you worried your new project won’t be successful? Or afraid getting stuck applying these new techniques you just learned in a training? Or are you perhaps part of a very pro-active organization,...
View ArticleQuality pattern 2: Automate your acceptance tests
In this blog, we will take a further look at these test cases and why it is important to automate these acceptance tests. Not just from a development team perspective, but also what this can bring to...
View ArticleSecurity by design? Don’t create a YAPWAV!
Security is about making risks visible and mitigating the impact of possible incidents to an acceptable level. The ‘security by design’ philosophy aims for every application or system to be at an...
View ArticleThreat Modeling – Start using evil personas
Agile teams often use the concept of personas to create more tailored user stories, so could you use evil personas to describe malicious behavior? Personas are “synthetic biographies of fictitious...
View ArticleHow to do Planning Poker online with video conferencing?
The most ideal tool to do Planning Poker online in Zoom or Teams The post How to do Planning Poker online with video conferencing? appeared first on Xebia Blog.
View ArticleThe value of Agile Architecture in a modern organization
Talking about the added value of applying Agile Architecture in your organization, we see fewer and fewer “IT architects” in organizations. Is that because we do not need Architects anymore? Do we...
View ArticleThe shift left fallacy
I am done with the whole shift left storyline. When I started computer science in 1999 the professors stated that a lot of money and failure are spared with a good design. In 2000 the professors told...
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