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Monday, January 30, 2017

User Story Writing - what does that mean?

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I keep hearing the question "How to write good/better user stories?". A quick search on Google reveals over 25 million hits, with...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

TWEAK: Willingness

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When trust is given, it must be followed with a desire, a willingness. Willingness is "the other side" of motivation. Agile Develo...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Draw Toast - learn to understand each other

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Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to reach a common understanding? How often do people talk about the same thing without meaning the ...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Bringing power into your Retrospectives

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Many people consider that the purpose of a Retrospective is to let the team reflect what went good or bad in the last iteration, then decide...

What to do in a Review?

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The Review meeting is the Inspect+Adapt ceremony of the Product. It is intended to align customers and developers. Sometimes, teams are conf...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Happy New Year: A forward-looking Retrospective approach

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Most retrospective techniques focus on analyzing past events, leading to introspection of transpired events. I have created the "Happy ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Do you really want high utilization?

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Let's end the discussion about whether we should optimize for maximum utilization right here, right now - with a metaphor. Ponder your o...

Clearing up some simple SAFe misgivings

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In this post, I will address a few misgivings that have been expressed towards SAFe. As each of them is independent, this post is more of...

Reversibility Design: Black Cars or uncutting the chassis?

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How can you optimize your test strategy?  That depends on what you want to achieve. Do you want a test strategy that leaves less room for e...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Normalized Story Points - what's that?

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SAFe4 suggests that Story Points should be normalized across the Release Train. Additionally, it provides a method for estimating the first...
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Monday, January 9, 2017

Do we really need Scrum?

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According to a recent discussion on LinkedIn, Dr. Jeff Sutherland claims regarding SAFe, "If you remove all the waste from SAFe you win...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Alignment & Management

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Alignment is an essential piece in the puzzle of an organization to be successful. There are vastly significant approaches of establishing a...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Six simple ways to understand Scrum team maturity

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When you're a Scrum Master, working an a new environment - with a new team, it's imperative to have a good understanding of the team...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

What does a Scrum Master do during ceremonies?

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I was recently asked the question, "What does the SM actually do in Scrum meetings, apart from facilitating" - so here is my view....
Monday, December 12, 2016

Is SAFe just another name for Waterfall?

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A strong accusation against SAFe is that it's only a different name for "Waterfall", i.e. while the structure and names are di...