Thinking about Lean as a combination of science, management and learning provides Scrum practitioners to start with including Lean and Kanban practices into their Scrum practices. Explicit policies, managing work-in-progress, and creating visibility have a direct, measurable impact on a team’s velocity.
In his blog post “New to agile? Remember how to say ‘No’”, Bob Hartmann reminds us that the “no” word should be used much more often at every level of the organization where agile is being embraced.
A CEO discusses three barriers that prevent Agile adoption: the management team, the technical team and the CEO himself.
In this blog post, Lisa Crispin describes how a team at Energized Work put in practice the Agile principle of collaboration.
This article discusses several symptoms and causes of schedule flaws, presents metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and describes how Agile can address project management risks.
This article presents the value of integrating just-enough user-centered design (user experience or UX) in an Agile development process like the Scrum approach of Agile project management.
In the episode 170 of the Software Engineering Radio, Bas Vodde explains how to apply agile principles to large and distributed development organizations. Bas shares his experiences on working in, consulting and coaching companies to adopt Scrum for large scale software development.
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