Understanding the significance of team dynamics is essential in fostering an Agile environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and productivity. This article discusses the importance of team dynamics for Scrum teams.
Which is better, Agile or Kanban? Actually, the answer is not quite that simple. Agile development and Lean, where Kanban comes from, are both related approaches to software development. Agile project management guides us to work in chunks, called Scrum Sprints or Iterations, Kanban also aims to work in smaller steps.
Pair Programming is an Agile software development technique proposed by the eXtreme Programming (XP) approach. Software developers are aware of the fact that this technique can have some huge advantages. Pair programming is an efficient way to share knowledge, it gives you an almost instant feedback loop, and delivers higher quality, less error-prone code.
I had already very much like the first book written by the same authors “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” published in 2009. The risk when you have high expectations is being disappointed. It wasn’t the case with “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development”.
The presenter designed this workshop during COVID times to engage stakeholders better by using User Stories more efficiently. The idea of the workshop is to help people move away from the notion that User Stories are merely a “As a .. I want .. so that” writing template.
After a first article about the negative sides of Agile certifications from the Agile practitioners’ perspective, Mark Haynes explores, again with a facetious bias, certifications in an organizational context.
In recent years, measurement has increasingly gained more traction in the Agile world. Many folks want to “measure” or even “measure what matters” when adopting new ways of working like Scrum.
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