Technical Practices in Scrum
In this video, Bas Vodde, co-author of “Scaling Lean & Agile Development”, explores whether so-called Scrum “technical practices” are really technical practices and whether LeSS is really Scrum.
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Barriers of Agility
Agile Organization needs different leaders, cultures, and structures. In this article, Zuzana “Zuzi” Šochová explains that the fewer barriers you give agility on the way, the more likely the frameworks, methods, and practices can make a difference. You don’t have to start with changing everything immediately, but sooner or later such change is inevitable.
Transforming Agile Teams Through Feminist Leadership
Feminist Leadership is about capitalizing on the ideas and skills of as many individuals as possible by establishing team cooperation and group leadership instead of competition and personal leadership; it seeks to develop power “with others” instead of power “over others.”
RetroCadence: The Best Retrospective Tool For Agile Teams
The retrospective is arguably the event that will yield the most benefits for your agile team. This is because it is the place where you identify crucial, valuable improvements for your team that will drive ongoing performance improvements. Such improvements allow your team to deliver higher value products in a shorter timescale.
Why Software Developers Don’t Need Agile
Agile is everywhere. There are tons of materials about Agile. There are tons of talks about Agile. There are even whole conferences focused on Agile. Agile is simply everywhere. That is a well-known fact. But did you know that software developers do not need it?
Kanban for Skeptics
At the beginning of his book “Kanban for Skeptics”, Nick Oostvogels writes “By listing the 5 most common arguments against Kanban and my response to them, I hope to help people in their Kanban journey and build great organizations that create amazing products.”
Advanced User Story Mapping
User Story Mapping is one of the most powerful collaboration tools for planning complex development activities. However, what are the differences between a good story map and a great one? How does one design and lead a great mapping session?