Agile adoption
In his book Agile Reflections, Robert Galen has aggregated multiple articles that he wrote about transitioning to Agile for the online publication PM Times. The book is based on his experience as in Agile coach helping companies in different phases of their transition to Agile software development.
Adopting new software development approaches like Agile and Scrum is always a challenge. There is a natural tendency for part of an organization to resist changing and some prejudices exist against Agile, mainly due to a lack of knowledge. This article discusses these misconceptions and provides some tips on how to overcome these prejudices to get Agile adoption on track in your organization.
Implementing Scrum is difficult and it is always difficult to answer the question of where to start this Agile Travel. In this article, Ilan Goldstein shares 10 tried-and-tested steps to help new practitioners get their Scrum show on the road.
Implementing Scrum is difficult and there might be nothing better than taking time and making mistakes to adopt Agile successfully. This being said, ” Scrum Shortcuts without Cutting Corners” by Ilan Goldstein is a book that can help you to choose better trails when you explore some of the Scrum practices.
As Rex Lester explains in this article: “Implementing Scrum involves adoption of a new paradigm across the organization. In most instances, the severe level of culture shift and change aren’t really appreciated”. The article discusses the difficulties of moving an organization from a Waterfall process to an Agile approach.
Adopting an Agile approach in a software development organization requires more than just sending some people to a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course. In this article, John Hill provides six recommendations for an enterprise Scrum transformation.
The Agile Karlskrona test is a simple self-assesement test that tries to answer the “How agile are you?” question. With 11 questions, this test should help you find where “on the road” from waterfall to agile your software development team is at the moment.
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