Scrum Agile Project Management

Coaching an Agile Enterprise With the Integral Agile Transformation Framework

November 27, 2014 0

Enterprise agility is both a hugely popular aspiration and a widely misunderstood buzzword. Many of us as Agile coaches wonder how we can lead and catalyze agility at an organizational level. Our intentions are earnest, but our skills and understanding are partial. This talk explores what Agile coaching across an enterprise means, from an executive’s leadership maturity to the limits of culture, from organization structures to value creating processes.

Applying the Agile Manifesto to Mobile Testing

November 25, 2014 0

If we often associate Agile mainly with project management, the principles of the Agile Manifesto can also be applied to other software development activities. In this article, Nadya Knysh explains how to use these principles in mobile software development and more specifically in the testing of mobile apps.

Dealing With Middle Management in Scrum

November 17, 2014 0

When companies transition to Agile, it is not too difficult to find new roles for member of the current software development teams. Finding a place for middle management in the new organization is not so easy and some people even advocates to get rid of them. In this blog post, Em Campbell-Pretty brings her own middle management perspective to this discussion.

Why Are Whole Scrum Teams Hard to Create?

November 4, 2014 0

One of the technical practices of Agile software development is to support cross-functional teams where members perform multiple activities like requirements, coding and testing. In their book “Being Agile”, Leslie Ekas and Scott Will discusses the difficulties of creating a whole team.