More on Scaling Scrum
I’ve been working with people who have actually made Scrum scale for large projects and product initiatives over the last twenty years. Our smallest project experience was 3 teams, average 25 teams, and largest was 80 teams. We abstracted a…
Assign. Discuss. Done: More JIRA + HipChat goodness
Together, JIRA and HipChat eliminate shoulder tapping while ensuring that agile teams can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Team members get the information they want, when and where they want it. Does it get any better than that? Why yes,…
Xebicon 2015, Jun 4 Amsterdam
This summer XebiCon is back, June 4th @ Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. The tracks are fantastic and picking your sessions will be hard! There are more than 20 top-notch talks on Agile, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Test Automation, Microservices, Software Development, Big Data…
IT Panel: The Secret to Fast, Agile IT Service
It’s been said that agility comes with awareness. When it comes to IT support, it means acting rapidly when necessary. An agile IT team is flexible. They can anticipate or quickly adapt to changing situations and improvise when faced with…
Getting Comfortable with Not Signing Up for Tasks in Sprint Planning
In last week’s blog post, I wrote about whether team members should sign up for tasks during sprint planning. I concluded that team commitment goes up when names are left off specific tasks during sprint planning, and this is a…
Stop following the successful companies
It is a common practice to look at successful people and learn the “best practices” as much as possible. The belief is that, by copying the successful practices, we become successful as well. My question is, does that really work…
What is the goal?
I seem to lead with that question a lot these days. Is the goal to practice Scrum? Is the goal to apply SAFe? Is the goal to use some other Agile delivery framework? Is the goal to uphold the values…