How to make the sprint review meeting worth your while
My work allows me to meet a lot of different people, who actively pursue Scrum. Some of them question the value of doing a sprint review meeting at the end of every sprint. Stakeholders presumably do...
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UC Berkeley paper unveils what business leaders should learn from the Agile...
Last fall, I was approached by Tom van Norden from the UC Berkeley School of Information. A team of professor Morten T. Hansen, famous from his bestseller with Jim Collins “Great by Choice”, was...
View ArticleWhen development resembles the ageing of wine
Once upon a time I was asked to help out a software product company. The management briefing went something like this: "We need you to increase productivity, the guys in development seem to be unable...
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A product manager's perfection....
is achieved not there are no more features to add, but when there are no more features to take away. -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry Not only was Antoine a brilliant writer, philosopher and pilot (well...
View ArticleQuestions with a license to kill in the Sprint Review
A team I had been coaching held a sprint review to show what they had achieved and to get feedback from stakeholders. Among these were managers, other teams, enterprise architects, and other interested...
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Minimal Viable UX
An approach to incorporate UX into the LEAN principle. User Experience is often interpreted as a process where the ‘UX guru’ holds the ultimate truth in designing for an experience. The guru likes to...
View ArticleHow to improve Scrum team performance with Kanban
This blogpost has been a collaborative effort between Jeroen Willemsen and Jasper Sonnevelt In this post we will take a look at a real life example of a Scrum team transitioning to Kanban. We will...
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Agile goes beyond Epic Levels
A snapshot from my personal backlog last week: The Agile transformation at ING was frontpage news in the Netherlands. This made us even more realize how epic this transformation and assignment actually...
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3 easy ways of improving your Kanban system
You are working in a Kanban team and after a few months it doesn’t seem to be as easy and effective as it used to be. Here are three tips on how to get that energy back up. 1. Recheck and refresh all...
View ArticleRelease Burn Down Brought to Life
Inspired by the blog of Mike Cohn [Coh08] "Improving On Traditional Release Burndown Charts" I created a time lapsed version of it. It also nicely demonstrates that forecasts of "What will be...
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Robot Framework - The unsung hero of test automation
The open source Robot Framework (RF) is a generic, keyword- and data-driven test automation framework for acceptance test driven development (ATDD). As such it stands alongside similar, but more...
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Agile, but still really not Agile? What Pipeline Automation can do for you....
Organizations adopting Agile and teams delivering on a feature-by-feature basis producing business value at the end of every sprint. Quite possibly this is also the case in your organization. But do...
View ArticleSecurity is dead, long live security
Last week the 7th edition of BruCON was held. For those unfamiliar with it, BruCON is a security conference where everybody with an interest in security can share their views and findings. As always it...
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Agile, but still really not Agile? What Pipeline Automation can do for you....
Organizations adopting Agile and teams delivering on a feature-by-feature basis producing business value at the end of every sprint. Quite possibly this is also the case in your organization. But do...
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Dancing with GetKanban (Using POLCA)
Very recently POLCA got some attention on twitter. The potential and application of POLCA to knowledge work I explained in my blog 'Squeeze more out of kanban with POLCA!' [Rij11] of 4 years ago. In...
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Bringing Agile to the Next Level
I finished my last post with the statement Agile will be applied on a much wider scale in the near future. Within governmental organizations, industry, startups, on a personal level, you name it. But...
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Agile, but still really not Agile? What Pipeline Automation can do for you....
Organizations adopting Agile and teams delivering on a feature-by-feature basis producing business value at the end of every sprint. Quite possibly this is also the case in your organization. But do...
View ArticleRobot Framework and the keyword-driven approach to test automation - Part 1 of 3
Hans Buwalda is generally credited with the introduction of the keyword-driven paradigm of functional test automation, initially calling it the 'action word' approach. This approach tackled certain...
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Agile: how hard can it be?!
Yesterday my colleagues and I ran an awesome workshop at the MIT conference in which we built a Rube Goldberg machine using Scrum and Extreme Engineering techniques. As agile coaches one would think...
View ArticleHow to make the sprint review meeting worth your while
My work allows me to meet a lot of different people, who actively pursue Scrum. Some of them question the value of doing a sprint review meeting at the end of every sprint. Stakeholders presumably do...
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