Incorporating UI Design in Scrum Sprints
A question I’ve been getting a lot lately is how to in corporate UI Design in Scrum. Whether UI designers should be part of the Scrum team and whether they should do their work as part of an agile sprint.…
Change Isn’t Free
Agile teams are told to “embrace change,” which is the subtitle to Kent Beck’s wonderful Extreme Programming Explained book. Although an agile team can embrace change, the stakeholders in an organization must understand that change is not always free. Most…
Handling Work Left at the End of a Sprint
It’s quite common for a team to have a bit of unfinished work left at the end of a sprint or iteration. Ideally, a team would finish every item on its sprint backlog every sprint. But, for a variety of…
Quality, Done Increment
Every Sprint in Scaled Professional Scrum requires a completed, ready to ship increment of functionality. The ubiquitous “definition of done” spells out the characteristics of such an increment. The end result should include software that has: Presence of valuable functionality for…
Busting 6 Common Agile Myths
As agile has grown in popularity, so have the misconceptions about it. In a recent introduction to agile webinar we asked our audience which of these common myths they’d encountered — here’s what they said: Do any of these look familiar to…
From a Project to a Product Approach Using LeSS at Agfa Healthcare
By changing the inner workings from a project perspective to a product perspective Agfa Healthcare established a less complicated process using a single backlog for the entire organisation. Main advice is to try to avoid setting up silos where they…
Shifting from Scarcity to Abundance Thinking
Over the past few months, I've read a few books on marketing. But I've also taken a handful of video training courses on marketing and have been listening to some enjoyable podcasts on the subject. Back when I was in…