Scrum Roles: How to Unlock Success
Scrum roles are easy to understand - the challenge is moving from theory to practice. Discover the dirty truth and secrets to excel.
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How to Create a Kick-Ass Agile Work Environment
The work environment makes or breaks people's productivity. Even most “Agile” environments are missing the mark.
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Agile vs Scrum – How to Win with Both
Agile is about a mindset or way of being. Scrum is a detailed set of roles, practices & steps. You need both practices and mindset to succeed.
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80% of Organizations Have Culture Challenges
80% of participants at a recent Scrum Gathering reported Culture Challenges - that their Organizational Culture does not support and Agile way of working.
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Structure of Kanban, Energy of Scrum
Explanation of how to mesh the energy Scrum: teams, collaboration, learning with Kanban flexibility: urgent requests, short timeframes, changes in direction.
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Agile Culture –> Self-Managing People
Agile is a Culture System focused on Collaboration and Cultivation. Here we look at Agile through the lens of the Laloux Culture Model.
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Scrum and Kanban – Which one to use?
Scrum is the most popular Agile methodology with Kanban a growing second choice. Learn about the core parts of each one as well as how they differ so that you can find the best fit for your team or organizational context. For example, Scrum is great when you want to shake up the status quo and transform the way you work. Kanban is great when small changes are a better fit for the environment. Learn how they work and how you can use them in your environment.
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Beyond Roles in Scrum
In this post we will explain how we can move to shared responsibility by focusing away from roles in Scrum.
Get Your Stories “Ready” to go Fast
I was at a client recently and one VP was convinced that Agile was “untrue” and there was no way it could possibly work. The problem was that he had never heard of backlog grooming or getting stories ready. Once he saw the infographic below, the penny finally dropped and he understood how this crazy thing called Scrum can possibly work with user stories.
Commitment is to People, not Sprints
There is a lot of debate about Sprint Commitments in Scrum. In my mind, the notion of a Sprint Commitment is an anti-pattern. Of course, personal commitment is critical. Read More
What’s the first Decision? Implementing Kanban vs Scrum
Guest post by Michael DePaoli
If your development team or manufacturing team is considering moving to using Kanban vs. Agile Scrum, one of the biggest decisions is choosing the right agile development methods for the job. Let’s discuss the realities of implementing Kanban and some of the fundamentals that hold back both Kanban and Scrum implementations.
