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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

When is Data Driven Decision Making applicable?

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Agile companies usually declare "Data Driven Decision Making" as a fundamental principle, because data forms the basis for empiric...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Know your customer!

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The Agile Manifesto states "Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation". But that's not easy  to practice without under...
Friday, April 8, 2016

"Bug Team" for Legacy Systems

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Legacy systems often have an equally large "defect backlog" - a list of well-known, relevant issues that need to be resolved at so...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

MoSCoW - yes or no?

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I was recently confronted with the question: "What is wrong with  MoSCoW prioritization method?" - as a rhetorical question. The ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Continuous Integration Flow

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Continuous Integration is essential in reaching high-paced, sustainable software development. Some people think "We have CI" mea...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

What makes a good test?

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In agile development, the team is responsible not only for development, but also for testing. However, many developers are challenged with...

Project Managers and Agility

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The statement "Now we're agile, we don't need Project Managers any more" - causes fear in those who used to have a PM role...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Reaching Sprint Commitment

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The Scrum Primer discusses "Sprint Commitments" as an outcome of the Sprint Planning. This Sprint Commitment means that "the...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

The "Mini Team" Approach to introduce Enterprise Agility

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When an organization has decided to "go agile", there is often the question: "How do we do this best?" - unfortunately, ...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Dealing with Meeting Madness

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Meetings run rampant in many organizations. In extreme cases, people hardly have time for focused work because they rush from meeting to mee...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Is you Kanban board healthy?

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Have you ever stood in front of a Kanban board and wondered whether the team is actually doing fine? Here we will discuss a few key concern...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

To estimate or not to estimate - #noestimates by slicing

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At the risk of stating something that is already obvious - "#noestimates" does not mean "We don't have any idea what we...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Quantify problems before solving them

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I was recently asked: " How many automated tests, do you think, we need? ". An underlying premise was that I would provide an expe...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Stakeholder Management 101

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In large enterprises, Product Owners often get bombarded with stakeholder requests of all sorts, which they all need to manage. Soon, the p...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Evolving Kanban Boards

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Regardless of whether your board is electronic or physical, boards have a huge advantage of making workflows visible and making problems tr...
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