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    Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.

    July 7, 2019 / No Comments
    Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.

    Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.

    Harald Dietrich

    Agile Frameworks are not made for taking decisions. They are made to provide guidance, how to cope adequately with consequences. Decisions have to be in place upfront. Agile Frameworks deliver procedures, roles, rituals, formats, principles, and tools. They do not improve quality, speed, satisfaction, collaboration, flexibility, risk management, and alignment by itself. This is a…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    We need more people who take care for the HOW

    September 23, 2018 / No Comments
    Title Photo - Woman on a stand searching for something further away

    I am an engineer and I am working in the software industry for many years now. Nowadays I take care for people - developers, team leaders, but even many more employees involved in running a successful business. I try to be a servant leader, who works with the people. Decisions are taken with the people…

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    Cynefin Lego Game

    February 10, 2018 / No Comments
    Cynefin Lego Game
    Cynefin Lego Game

    The Cynefin framework is used to help decision makers to understand the domain, they are operating in. It offers four contexts: simple, complicated, complex, chaotic, and disorder. They offer a "sense of place" from which to analyze behavior and decide how to act in similar situations. In general it is important to know what type…

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    Where is the truth about agile?

    December 31, 2017 / No Comments
    Where is the truth about agile? - Free Agile! Community

    Looking for a place, where you can find out more about what agile really means to us and how it helps to shape our future? Here you go - freeagile.org.

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    A Discussion on SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, Spotify, and more

    December 28, 2017 / 1 Comment
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    SAFe vs LeSS vs Nexus Vs Spotify method, etc

    Lot's of discussions are going on in the internet on possibilities to scale agile. There are various frameworks, which are gaining more and more popularity. This post points to one of the discussions at Agile Uprising on the topic.

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    Stopping the Enterprise Death Spiral with Mob Programming

    December 23, 2017 / No Comments

    “Let’s say you are at a company with 10 people; price’s law states that approximately 3 people will be responsible for half of the productivity of value. Scale that out to 100 and now it’s 10 people who are responsible for half the productivity of value. Now scale that to 10,000 and you have 100…

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    Daily Routine – The Agile Mastery Challenge

    December 14, 2017 / No Comments
    Daily Routine - a Scrum Masters' Challenge

    What makes up a great scrum master? Test yourself and take a close look how you or your team is perceiving the daily routine.

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  • Way of Working

    Experiment Together. Improve Together. Win Together

    November 29, 2017 / No Comments

    “An organization that establishes safety as a prerequisite and experiments together, will improve together, and win together.”

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    Do you know what Scrum Masters do or don’t?

    October 19, 2017 / No Comments
    Scrum Masters do and don't

    (Missunderstood) Stances of a Scrum Master

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  • Way of Working

    Stacey Matrix – adapted to software development

    October 1, 2017 / 1 Comment
    Stacey Matrix - adapted to software development

    “The Stacey Matrix was developed to help managers determine the complexity of their environment and adapt their style of decision-making. For software development, the Matrix is often plotted along different axes; ‘Requirements’ and ‘Implementation’ (or ‘Technology’). The former is determined by the obviousness to which we know what we need to build (like the product)…

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    Prioritizing product features using the Kano model

    October 1, 2017 / 1 Comment

    One of the challenges product teams encounter, is how to decide which features should be included in their products. Identifying the user needs, helps teams to focus on what a product should deliver to address a certain type of user. In time, teams develop many ideas on how to address these needs. The Kano model…

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    The #NoEstimates debate: An unbiased look at the origins, arguments, and thought leaders behind the movement

    September 19, 2017 / 1 Comment

    There are many points on which Zuill (who first blogged about completing a project sans estimates in 2012) and Kretzman (a strong critic of the #NoEstimates movement and a supporter of the continued use of estimates when effective) actually agree, giving both sides of the debate common ground on which to build a continually better…

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    There is no certification for Agile

    September 16, 2017 / No Comments

    There is no certification for #agile, like there is no certification for #democracy. — Harald Dietrich (@haralddietrich) September 16, 2017

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    A Dictionary of Agile Language (updated)

    August 30, 2017 / No Comments
    A Dictionary of Agile Language

    The importance of language is inevitable. Finding the right wording, which is expressing exactly what we want to say from a context point of view, but also from a emotional point of view. The agile development space is an area of application, where this comes true notably. We just need to recall, that we use…

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  • [Article],  Way of Working

    A Practical Journey to Communities of Practice

    August 25, 2017 / No Comments
    Communities of Practice

    A while ago I have been asking the community at Agile Uprising for some hints on how to setup communities of practice. I felt like I would need some support. I had a rough idea what I would want to achieve by establishing communities, but I was lacking the idea how to get there. The…

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