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Working Agile is no decision. It is a consequence.
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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We need more people who take care for the HOW
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
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?
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
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
“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
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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Experiment Together. Improve Together. Win Together
“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?
(Missunderstood) Stances of a Scrum Master
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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
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
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
There is no certification for #agile, like there is no certification for #democracy. — Harald Dietrich (@haralddietrich) September 16, 2017
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A Dictionary of Agile Language (updated)
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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A Practical Journey to 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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