Even if for some Agile and Scrum practitioners, checklists can have the bad reputations as being on the wrong side of the “Individuals and interactions over processes and tool ” Agile Manifesto preferred values, it doesn’t always mean that it contains “items you should always check”. They can be also considered as a good practice that allows to capitalize and share experience when they are used as guidelines to assess the different aspects of a situation.
Law firms have been experiencing a good run lately. Billing hours and rates have gone up, and many practices have achieved record revenues. According to the ABA Journal, quite a number of law firms saw an increase of 12.5% in revenue in 2024. That’s quite impressive in any industry.
Balancing Agility and Discipline is a book written in 2004 by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. The fact that it is already on its 6th reprint tells something about its value. This is a very pragmatic book that tries to put in perspective agile and plan-driven software development approaches.
The problem with retrospectives is that the learnings identified often remain locally. And scaling agile seems to be the default answer. Let’s focus more on scaling improvement.
Sizing an Agile team is not an easy task. In this article, Mark Haynes discusses some of the factors (control, the nature of the work, optimal communications) that will influence the decision for the size of a Scrum team.
Scrum Day Europe is a conference dedicated to Scrum that takes place in the Netherlands. This conference dedicated to Agile project management and Scrum takes place in the Netherlands and will feature local and international expert speakers. This is a main event for all European Scrum practitioners.
The Agile Turkey Summit is a one-day conference dedicated to Agile software development and Scrum project management approaches, taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. International and local Agile and Scrum experts provide the content of this conference.
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