In large Agile projects where a Scrum team cannot deliver the full system, you have different options to organize your team. You can use feature teams that work on a set of user stories or component teams that work on a subsystem or component. In his blog post, Michael Valenta reports his experience as a ScrumMaster from the usage of features teams.
Business Analysis (BA) is a profession which is helping organizations to manage business transformation in an ever-changing and complex world. Business analysts work across the business change lifecycle; they develop early understanding of business needs. Their work leads to a situation where the right projects are funded for the right reasons.
When you start scaling Agile, you might need more metrics to assess you software development process. In this article, Janani Rasanjali Liyanage proposes some metrics that adhere to Lean and Agile principles to measure business agility in terms of predictability, reliability and adaptability.
Managing the product backlog and prioritizing the user stories if one of the main responsibilities of the product owners in Scrum. In this blog post, Andy Carmichael explains how to assess the priority of product backlog items using the cost of delay.
This article examines the Agile myth that constant process improvement is imperative. It discusses the fact that if you need to continuously observe your process, you should wait for the pauses between iteration to perform process improvement.
In this blog post, Ralf Westphal explains how functional design and test-driven development (TDD) are the techniques that allows to bridge the gap between requirement and code in Agile.
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.
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